Engineering Project Manager - Lifecycle

Location: Bendigo, VIC, Australia

We currently have an opportunity for an Engineering Project Manager (Lifecycle Projects) to join our Health & Education team and play a key role in ensuring critical engineering assets at Bendigo Hospital remain safe, reliable, and fit‑for‑purpose across their lifecycle. Reporting to the Asset Manager, you’ll help deliver high‑quality outcomes that support our essential services.

This role can be based in Bendigo or at our Melbourne office. Travel to the Bendigo site for a minimum of 3 days per week as part of the position.

What You’ll Do 

This role offers a broad scope, with key responsibilities including:

• Leading the full lifecycle project portfolio for engineering upgrades, replacements, and major refresh programs across Bendigo Hospital. 

• Developing scopes, business cases, budgets, schedules, procurement plans, and governance documentation that ensure projects meet statutory, operational, and contractual requirements. 

• Coordinating safe delivery of works in a live healthcare environment, including outage planning, commissioning, and integration with clinical operations. 

• Managing vendors, contractors, and technical partners to ensure high‑quality, safe, and compliant outcomes. 

• Providing clear and proactive stakeholder engagement, ensuring risks are identified early and managed effectively throughout the project lifecycle.

What You’ll Bring 

• Experience delivering engineering lifecycle or capital works projects in complex or regulated environments with healthcare experience highly regarded. 
• Strong knowledge of engineering systems such as electrical, mechanical, fire, hydraulics, BMCS/BMS, and critical‑services infrastructure. 
• Proven ability to plan safe shutdowns, isolations, and staged cutovers with minimal disruption to essential operations. 
• Confidence working with multidisciplinary teams, including clinical, technical, and executive stakeholders and building strong, respectful relationships. 
• A commitment to safety, governance, accountability, and high‑quality delivery across all project phases. 
   

More than anything, you’ll bring a positive attitude, a strong work ethic, and a passion for contributing to essential community infrastructure.

Why Downer?

At Downer, we plan, create, and sustain essential public services across Australia and New Zealand. From hospitals to data centres and defence partnerships, we manage critical infrastructure that keeps communities thriving.

What It Means to Belong at Downer

We’re proud of our high-performance culture and commitment to diversity, offering:

• Training and development to support and diversify your career. 

• With 30% of vacancies filled internally you’ll find real opportunities to advance your career.

• Perks@Downer: healthcare discounts, great savings on retail purchases, car purchases and much more.

• Employee Assistance Program: professional support for you and your family when you need it most.

You want your work to matter and so do we.  With over 26,000 people across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, our team is made up of individuals with unique perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas.

We know that diversity makes us stronger and we actively celebrate it through our commitment to inclusion and belonging.

We’re committed to building a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve and we welcome people of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, cultures, abilities, and lived experiences. We especially encourage applications from those whose voices have traditionally been underrepresented in our industry, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Māori and Pasifika Peoples, veterans, people with disability, and neurodivergent individuals.  Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with this role, we’d still like to hear from you. If it feels like the right fit, apply - potential counts, and so do you.

As a WORK180 Endorsed Employer, we support flexibility that works for your life, inclusive leadership that values your voice, and equitable access to opportunity so you can do your best work and bring your whole self to it.

If you need support or adjustments through the recruitment process, just let us know, we’re here to help you put your best foot forward.