Team Leader Project Management Team

Are you a highly motivated and experienced individual with a strong background in project management and team leadership? This might be your chance to rewrite the future with us. 

• Permanent Full Time role - Wyong location
• Lead a dynamic team in delivering impactful projects on time and within budget.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability
• Hybrid work conditions - 2 days work from home and 3 days on site 
• Attractive remuneration package with market loading

About the role

The Team Leader Project Team is responsible for overseeing project execution, ensuring that objectives are met efficiently and effectively. This role requires strong leadership skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

In this role, you will manage a high-performing team of project managers and support staff, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to a high standard.

You’ll lead day-to-day operations, coordinate service delivery, and collaborate across teams to achieve strategic outcomes. Your ability to manage priorities, provide clear direction, and inspire performance will be key to success.

The ideal candidate brings strong leadership, a strategic mindset, and a proven track record in project delivery and stakeholder engagement.

This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management or related field OR equivalent qualifications with demonstrated solid contemporary experience, combined with ongoing professional development
• Current Class C Drivers Licence and SafeWork NSW General Induction for Construction Work (White Card) or willingness to obtain
• Extensive project management experience
• Successful delivery of complex infrastructure projects
• Strong leadership across multi-disciplinary teams
• Knowledge of Local Government operations and legislation and skilled in navigating political environments 
• Expertise in performance improvement and consultation with proven leadership in communication and stakeholder engagement
• Ability to influence outcomes and build credible relationships
• Strong analytical and advisory skills

Our position description provides more information for you to learn more about this role.

Other important information

• The commencing salary for this position is up to $110.9K. Central Coast Council also provides progression opportunities for employees to progress up to the maximum salary of $128.5K on completion of assessment of skills and performance plus 12% superannuation and 3.5% Civil Liability Allowance. This role offers market loading for the right candidate
• Private Use Leaseback - Passenger Car Medium or Quarterly Vehicle Allowance
• We have a permanent full-time role available 
• This role will be able to access a 9 day fortnight
• We are able to offer hybrid and flexible working conditions for this role - 2 days from home and 3 days onsite 
• This role is located at the Wyong Administration Building 

Council may create an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent or temporary vacancies.

Extra benefits 

At Central Coast Council we provide team members with a range of extras that help them balance their life when they need it. Fitness Passports give access to a range of gyms. Wellbeing leave can be accessed twice a year to tick off something that means something to you - volunteering, health check-ups. And an Employee Assistance Program that offers a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you and your immediate family.

Other extras include:

• Long service leave after 5 years of continuous service
• Free flu vaccination program
• Time provided for you to do annual skin cancer screening, Breast screen and blood donations
• Access to professional development with career development and learning programs through various platforms
• We reward and recognise our staff with our Cheers program
• Novated leasing partnerships. 

Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.

Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.

Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work. The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions in NSW, the third largest Local Government Area (LGA) in NSW and the 6th Largest LGA in Australia. 

How to apply

To lodge your application, please follow these steps:

1. Answer the on-line questions shown below.
2. Attach your resume 
3. Attach your qualifications and licences.

Once your application is successfully lodged you will receive an automated response sent to your e-mail address. If a response is not received this means that your application has not been successfully submitted and you will need to lodge another application.

If you require assistance to lodge your application please contact our Talent Acquisition team by emailing recruit@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au to discuss what reasonable adjustments you may need. If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us through the National Relay Service TTY call 133 677 or Speak & Listen 1300 555 727.

Applicants who are selected for interview will be contacted by phone or e-mail. For further instructions please click here. 

You will have the ability to save your application as you go using the 'Save Application' button. You can start an application and return to it later via the automatic follow-up email once you have the time and required information at hand to finalise your application.  

If you don't have access to a computer or electronic device, you can lodge your application at any of Council's Library locations. Pre-book a free 1-hour computer timeslot by contacting your nearest library https://www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/libraries/our-branches or ask at the enquiry counter.

We will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications being presented by recruitment agencies.