Senior Development Manager (Karratha based)

at  DevelopmentWA

We are DevelopmentWA - Western Australia’s land development agency, working on industrial, commercial, and residential projects. Our work is diverse and state-wide, developing land for sustainable communities, prosperous industries and resilient regions.
Our portfolio includes the development and management of some of WA’s most iconic residential, commercial and industrial projects both within the metropolitan area, and regional areas of our state. Projects including Elizabeth Quay, Alkimos, Ocean Reef Marina the Australian Marine Complex, Subi East and significant regional projects such as Baynton West and Madigan Estates in Karratha, Exmouth Marina, Broome North, GreenView Kalgoorlie, various industrial and special industrial precincts across the state and the revitalisation of the Karratha, Newman, Chinatown Broome and South Hedland town centres.
We are committed to innovation and sustainability across all of our operations, including a plan to transition to net zero ‘scope 1 and 2’ emissions by 2025.
At DevelopmentWA our vision is “Shaping our State’s Future”, and that’s exactly what you’ll be doing by joining the team at DevelopmentWA.
To learn more about our company, or to view the current projects we are working on, visit www.developmentwa.com.au

ROLE SUMMARY:

A unique and exciting opportunity for a Senior Development Manager is available in our Regional North team.
Based in Karratha and reporting to Manager Regional North you will be responsible for autonomously co-ordinating a range of projects across the Pilbara Region. The role includes management of your own projects, stakeholder management and supporting the wider Regional North team on a substantial number of diverse and complex property-related projects to ensure they are consistent with local strategic plans and DevelopmentWA priorities.
Oversight of Regional North’s Pilbara Reconciliation Action Plan and Aboriginal Heritage Act obligations and initiatives across the Pilbara region also form part of the role.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:

You will be responsible for managing and co-ordinating diverse and complex property-related projects and evaluating and making recommendations on potential projects relating to the assembly and delivery of land and other property solutions. Other responsibilities include:

• Manage complex business cases and implantation plans to meet business objectives.
• Respond to changes in government policy while understanding corporate challenges and priorities to meet objectives and deliver outcomes.
• Manage cost planning and expenditure within budgets and procedures and continually evaluate opportunities, risks and priorities to anticipate issues and generate project solutions as well as alternate project and stakeholder strategies.
• Effectively integrate consultant disciplines.
• Effectively use systems and information to manage complex projects to time, cost and quality targets and balance outcomes including commercial, design and sustainability initiatives.
• Ensure project close out, including review or project deliverables against expectations, shared learnings and financial documentation as required.
• Travel around the Pilbara is required.

In addition to the above, to be successful in this role you will have the following skills, experience and attributes:

• Demonstrated ability to deliver project outcomes.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in land or property development project management roles.
• Proven ability to scope project requirements and develop and present viable project business cases to senior management and deliver on financial management, sales and communications strategy and delivery of project management milestones.
• A strong focus on communication style, leadership and the ability to negotiate particularly in building relationships with numerous stakeholders from a range of industry and public/private sector backgrounds.
• Ability to work within existing policies, systems and processes to ensure corporate governance.
• The ability to complete land assembly tasks including native title negotiations and planning frameworks, feasibility assessments, cash flows and risk analysis as well as experience in, strategic industrial, general industrial or other land development projects (desirable).
• A relevant tertiary qualification is desirable