Senior Project Manager - ICT Communications Infrastructure

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time, 38 hours per week
Position Classification: Health Mgr Lvl 4
Salary Range: $141,974 per annum - $169,151 per annum + 11.5% super and benefits
Location: NSW Ambulance State Operations Centre, Sydney Olympic Park
Closing Date: 25 June 2025

ABOUT NSW AMBULANCE

NSW Ambulance is an integral part of the NSW Health system that must work together seamlessly to deliver services to the community of NSW. We take a values-based leadership approach putting our people at the centre of everything we do, striving to deliver our mission of Excellence in Care through our CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment. 

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Around the Grounds - November 2024

ABOUT THE ROLE

The ICT Senior Project Manager will work with relevant stakeholders to ensure complex/large ICT communications infrastructure projects are realistically planned, developed, implemented and evaluated within the agreed timeframes and budgets. 

The Senior Project Manager will provide project management expertise, project support, and communications infrastructure (data cabling, comms rooms, server rooms, ICT UPSs) in facilitating the achievement of operational project, corporate objectives, strategies and plans in an efficient and effective manner. They will coordinate and manage the risk, quality and progress of ICT projects to organisational project governance standards, and ensures projects have a strong change management plan in place are completed on time, on budget, to quality standards, and within agreed scope.

This role will act as an advocate for and demonstrate a high-level knowledge of project governance and to apply these skills to support the achievement of short and long-term business goals/projects.

Please refer to the Role Description  and Position Conditions and General Info for further information.

WHATS ON OFFER

• Permanent employment, providing job security and stability 
• Excellent remuneration and leave support including annual, parental, carers and more
• Allocated Days Off (ADO) once a month take a paid day off
• Additional Public Holiday
• Generous salary packaging options to help you increase your take home pay: Up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + novated leasing
• Staff Support Program - extensive free confidential and professional assistance for staff and their families
• Fitness passport, and medic-fit gyms at most locations - discounted gym membership that both you and your family can enjoy
• Discounted private health insurance
• Career development and growth opportunities
• Collaborative and supportive team

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for candidates with the below experience and capabilities:

• Extensive experience and knowledge in all technical aspects of design, specifying standards, quality assurance, and project management of structured cabling, rack layout design and UPSs for data centres, servers rooms, comms rooms for critical environments such as control centres and operational stations (eg ambulance) for emergency services organisations in a managed service or outsourced ICT environment.
• Proven experience and awareness of safe work practices for working in hazardous environments such as buildings containing Asbestos.
• Thorough understanding of relevant Australian and International Standards and NSW Health standards with an ability to contribute to setting and revision of NSW Standards.
• Demonstrated experience in overseeing effective project management and change. Preferably in a health environment, including industrial, operational commissioning, communications, risk management.
• Superior skills in relationship management, influencing, negotiating, coordinating multiple parties, consulting and communicating, both oral and written, on complex issues.
• Issues management skills and ability to work within short timeframes on sensitive and complex matters and provide high level advice.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills and an ability to make decisions based on sound judgments. Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities.
• Tertiary qualifications in project management / change management or related field or equivalent extensive proven demonstrated experience or a combination of both qualifications and experience, in the management and implementation of changes in a complex delivery environment, and relevant certifications in data cable design.
• Prepared to travel extensively around New South Wales visiting NSW Ambulance 240+ locations.

HOW TO APPLY

Please respond to the below two questions (max 4000 characters including spaces) and submit this with your CV and other required information.

Question 1: You have been requested to design the cabling infrastructure for radio, data, IP telephony, video conferencing, and digital signage in a 25 person emergency service station (police, fire or ambulance). What would you take into consideration when preparing the cabling design, obtaining quotes to implement, and project manage the build?

Question 2: Describe a situation where you had to get cooperation from an external ICT service provider for a project that had to be for delivered in a critical time frame. What were the engagement challenges that you encountered and how did you go about overcoming these?

If you'd like to discuss the position and role description more before you formally apply, confidential enquiries can be made to Iain McGregor via: 

E: iain.mcgregor@health.nsw.gov.au

Please note: To be eligible for Permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.

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