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RPS, A Tetra Tech company - representing an exciting new chapter in our business, RPS became a Tetra Tech company in January 2023. With 27,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading, global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market-leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world’s most complex problems.

RPS has an established client-side project management consulting business in Australia Asia Pacific, with over 400 project management staff. The RPS Project Management team in Perth currently consists of 50 staff and is continuing to grow. We have a strong workbook for 2023 and beyond, with key long term projects in delivery underwriting our business.

RPS is currently tracking a range of live opportunities in the defence sector. To support this, we are seeking qualified and experienced Senior Project Managers to join our team and contribute to the growth of our project management business.

About the Role

The Senior Project Manager role offers you leadership, ownership, scope, collaboration, autonomy, challenges, and management of delivering significant projects with valued clients. We are offering you the opportunity to be part of our continued success, providing you with an exciting and rewarding role where your efforts will be recognised. We are a growing team with opportunities for future growth, strong career development and collaborative culture.

This role would suit an established project management professional wanting to take a key role in the delivery of infrastructure and building construction projects for Defence clients as well as being part of managing client relationships and the line management team.

While the role is office-based, regular short distance travel for client meetings and site-based activities is required.

About you

You will hold a tertiary qualification in project management, engineering, construction management or similar; and have:

• Australian citizenship and holding or successfully obtaining and retaining a minimum Australian Government Baseline Security Clearance.
• 10+ years project management experience
• Demonstrated recent project experience involving buildings and construction for Defence clients
• Demonstrated leadership skills including experience working within and managing teams.
• A strong understanding and proven experience in managing contracts, contract administration and design management.
• Very strong stakeholder management, communications and leadership skills.
• Excellent time management skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to use Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel, and Outlook with Microsoft Project desirable.
• AIPM Certified Practising Project Manager certification or equivalent would be viewed favourably
• The ability to work within a large team structure and providing leadership to more junior staff.
• Desire to work on major complex projects.
• Flexible to travel when required to site based meetings and activities for our clients on Garden Island.

 

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Job Title: Project Coordinator

Location: Brisbane

Salary: $85,000

Looking for a fresh challenge in 2026?

Webexpenses, headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices in Australia and North America, is a SaaS company that has grown quickly as a major player in the global online expense management market. Our mission is to enhance business efficiency and effectiveness by eliminating manual processes and elevating our clients' visibility into their company's expenditure.

Private equity backed, you'll be joining us at an exciting juncture as we continue to grow our business and develop our people.

About the Opportunity

Due to the ongoing growth of our well-established APAC team we now have a fantastic opportunity for a Project Coordinator to ensure a positive customer onboarding and implementation experience through every project. You may have a background in project administration, or just be highly organised, efficient and looking to enhance your skills and further your career in a professional environment. We don't expect you to have all of the skills and knowledge but if you have the right attitude and an aptitude to learn then we can teach you. Reporting to the Projects Team Manager you will coordinate team resources and monitor project activities from initiation to handover to our Account Management team.

In this role you will initiate projects, meet customers online to introduce the team and our implementation process and manage a number of your own projects for products and services sold to new and existing customers.

You will do this by:

• Confirming high-level customer requirements and finalising project timelines.
• Assessing and monitoring the capacity of each Implementation Consultant and allocating project work.
• Proactively monitoring and recording the progress/success of implementations through regular review calls and customer feedback.
• Managing a number of projects of varying sizes, assigning technical resources as appropriate.
• Identifying and managing any concerns or risks, escalating to the Projects Team Manager as appropriate.
• Developing strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

To be considered for this exciting role candidates will have:

• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Proven ability to successfully coordinate multiple concurrent projects or activities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Working knowledge of project management methodologies is beneficial.
• Analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in maintaining data in Salesforce or similar CRM would be advantageous.
• Experience of software collaboration tools.
• Previous experience in a customer facing role is beneficial.

In return we offer:

• A working environment which enables our people to develop their skills and experience.
• A range of benefits ian additional day off on your birthday, private health insurance, group life insurance, cycle to work scheme, pension scheme, onsite benefits.

Webexpenses is an equal opportunities employer, and we encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to join our team.

• Key to this role is an awareness of data privacy and security as you will be dealing with sensitive employee data in accordance with our security policies.s