The SKAO Project Management Group holds the project management and control expertise within the Observatory. During construction, the Project Managers procure and deliver their assigned parts of the SKA-Low Telescope facilities by managing a portfolio of contracts and work packages. The Project Managers form the primary managerial link between SKAO as the client and the selected contractors and are responsible for delivery of their scope within the agreed budget and schedule, managing change, risks and issues, and performing regular reporting and variance analysis.

The Project Manager - Australia Host Country Infrastructure will manage and support the procurement and delivery of the following facilities for the SKA-Low Telescope:

• Boolardy Accommodation Facility: the BAF is permanent accommodation at the Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory site where the SKA-Low telescope is being constructed
• Engineering Operations Centre (Geraldton): the EOC provides workshops, offices and technical facilities for the construction and maintenance of the SKA-Low telescope
• Science Processing Centre (Perth): the SPC will be procured as space within a commercial data centre building, which will be populated with the various high performance computing platforms required to process SKA-Low telescope data.

And serve as a key management link between SKAO and the CSIRO team delivering the following asset:

• Science Operations Centre (Perth): the SOC provides office and telescope operations space for key scientific, administrative and supporting staff.

The Project Manager - Australia Host Country Infrastructure will lead and co-ordinate efforts across the matrix organisation to drive, advise and support the contractors and partners engaged in the delivery of their assigned contracts. They will ensure that the deliverables from these contracts and the work of the internal team are integrated into the project level tools and systems. They will work closely with other project managers, the project control team, engineers, procurement specialists, assurance and operations staff.

This role will be reporting to the Head of Project Management.

This role will be a 3-year fixed term appointment and will be based in Perth, Australia with frequent travel required to suppliers and SKAO sites within Western Australia and occasional travel to SKAO HQ in the UK.