Why You’ll Love Working With Us

Some of the key benefits for the position and employment at Programmed, include:

• Competitive compensation: Receive an attractive base salary aligned with your experience.
• Exclusive employee perks: Access discounts and benefits with over 600 retailers, including Coles, Woolworths, BWS, Dan Murphy’s, The Good Guys, JB Hi-Fi, BCF, SuperCheap Auto, and many more!
• Salary sacrifice benefits: Take advantage of novated vehicle leasing, income protection insurance, and other financial perks.
• Investment in you: We're passionate about personal and professional growth, offering access to certificates, webinars, mentorship, and practical training to help you thrive in your career.
• Your well-being, our priority: Strong safety culture, generous paid parental leave and access to our Employee Assistance Program, including tailored well-being initiatives designed to support your personal and family needs.

About the Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced and influential Program Manager to lead a team of Project Managers responsible for delivering a portfolio of maintenance capital projects across multiple long‑term customer contracts. This permanent full‑time position plays a critical role in ensuring high‑quality project delivery, strengthening client relationships, and driving performance across our capital works program.

Based in the Melbourne Airport Business Park (VIC), you will oversee a diverse project portfolio typically ranging from $50K to $5M while providing leadership, governance, and strategic direction to ensure successful outcomes. You will work closely with internal stakeholders, clients, subcontractors, and senior leadership to ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and in alignment with contractual and business objectives.

This role represents a significant opportunity to shape Programmed’s project delivery capability, enhance customer experience, and drive consistency and excellence across multiple operating contracts.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and mentor a team of Project Managers, ensuring capability, performance, and consistency across all projects.
• Oversee the planning and delivery of a portfolio of maintenance capital projects across multiple client contracts.
• Provide strong governance across project lifecycle activities, including scope, budget control, scheduling, risk management, procurement, and reporting.
• Build and maintain effective client relationships, ensuring project delivery aligns with expectations, safety standards, and contractual requirements.
• Drive business development opportunities within existing contracts, supporting growth and repeat work.
• Collaborate with senior management to shape long‑term program strategies, operational improvements, and commercial outcomes.
• Implement and uphold safety, quality, and environmental standards across all projects.
• Provide accurate program‑level reporting, including financial performance, forecasting, risks, and delivery milestones.

About You

To succeed in this role, you will bring a strong background in project and program leadership, ideally within construction, maintenance, infrastructure, or asset‑intensive environments. You excel at leading teams, managing complex workloads, and influencing senior stakeholders across multiple operational settings. Your commercial acumen, communication capability, and passion for driving project excellence will ensure the successful delivery of Programmed’s capital projects.

Additionally, you will demonstrate and possess the following:

• Tertiary qualifications in Project Management, Engineering, Construction, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Demonstrated experience managing teams of Project Managers or leading multi‑disciplinary project delivery teams.
• Proven ability to manage a diverse portfolio of projects simultaneously, balancing priorities across multiple clients and contracts.
• Strong capability in financial management, forecasting, reporting, and risk mitigation.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship‑building skills.
• Ability to drive performance, foster collaboration, and support a culture of safety and continuous improvement.
• Proficiency with project management tools, systems, and reporting processes.
• Alignment with our core values: Safety Leadership, Care & Empathy, Customer Service, and Diversity, Inclusion & Equality

About Us

Programmed is a leading provider of operations and maintenance services across all industry sectors including education, health, infrastructure, manufacturing, transport and mining in Australia and New Zealand. 

Our Facility Management business unit partners with our valued clients to deliver a comprehensive range of facilities management from small repair work to managing large-scale facilities and infrastructure networks.

We encourage career development, support flexibility and care about your personal wellbeing and safety. Join the Programmed team today. 

Work With Us

Submit your application today and join us on our mission to build outstanding people, strong customers, and great communities.

Our Commitment

Programmed by Persol supports a workplace culture of zero harm and encourages this in all that we do.

Programmed and Persol strives for diversity, inclusion and equality of our people. We seek a workforce that is representative of the communities we work in. We encourage people of all cultures, gender, age, sexual orientation or abilities to apply.

To learn more about working with Programmed and Persol, we encourage you to visit our website.