Senior Manager Cost and Change Control (Temporary Opportunity Up to 6 years)

You see the big picture, you’ve always worked on a grand scale, and now you’re ready to re-focus on grand impact.

You’re called upon to help decision makers identify the options that best match their objectives. This is your opportunity to deliver exceptional services to the people of NSW, create innovative solutions, and foster strong partnerships.

In this role, you'll:

Reporting to the Director Portfolio PMO, the Senior Manager Cost and Change Control is a fixed-term role through to June 30, 2032, leading cost management and change control across major Sydney Metro projects. The role will strengthen governance and financial accountability by overseeing cost planning and performance, maintaining project baseline integrity, and driving transparent, auditable processes that support effective decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.

Working closely with senior leadership, you will provide expert guidance on cost management and project controls, driving best-practice standards, consistency, and successful project outcomes across Sydney Metro’s portfolio.

Key accountabilities include:

• Lead Cost Management and Governance
  • Oversee the development, monitoring and control of project cost plans, ensuring strong financial governance, baseline integrity, and value-for-money outcomes across the portfolio.
• Drive Consistent Cost and Change Control Practices
  • Ensure the consistent application of cost management and change control frameworks, methodologies, and industry standards across projects to support effective decision-making and project delivery.
• Provide Strategic Oversight and Advice
  • Deliver expert guidance on cost planning, estimating, change management, and project controls, ensuring alignment with statutory, legislative, design, and construction requirements.
• Enhance Performance, Efficiency and Portfolio Value
  • Analyse and improve systems, processes and procedures to identify efficiencies, strengthen project resilience, realise value enhancement opportunities, and achieve best-for-project outcomes.
• Lead Continuous Improvement of Change Control Processes
  • Develop and maintain a transparent, auditable, and lifecycle-aligned change control framework, conducting reviews, embedding lessons learnt, and driving consistency across Sydney Metro and Transport portfolios.

For more information, please view the role description and information pack.

About you

You bring extensive experience managing cost in dynamic, complex, multi-contract project environments, with a strong track record of developing and implementing robust governance, cost control and assurance frameworks for major infrastructure programs.

You have successfully managed and controlled complex project cost plans across multidisciplinary projects, ensuring financial integrity, effective change control, and the delivery of value-for-money outcomes. Your experience includes overseeing large-scale infrastructure projects with multiple delivery partners and contractual interfaces, providing strategic advice on cost management, risk, and project controls.

You maintain a strong understanding of emerging industry trends, government policy, statutory requirements, and best-practice approaches, ensuring projects remain aligned with organisational and stakeholder expectations

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day. 

Sydney Metro delivers Australia’s biggest public transport project and first driverless railway. We engage with our customers and community, and contribute to vibrant and attractive places through station design, interchanges and precincts.

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