What are the responsibilities and job description for the Program Manager - NSW position at transurban?
Take the next step in your Transurban journey. Here's an opportunity to grow your skills and shape your path at Transurban. We're building a culture where you can apply your strengths, embrace change, and develop the skills you need for tomorrow. About the Opportunity As a Program Manager, you'll play a key role in leading the planning and delivery of a diverse portfolio of capital maintenance and enhancement programs that help keep our roads safe, reliable, and ready for the future. Through strong commercial acumen, customer-focused thinking, and strategic leadership, you'll help deliver outcomes that create long-term value for our assets, customers, and communities. You'll join a collaborative team that values partnership, accountability, continuous learning, and collaborative delivery, working together to deliver outcomes that make a lasting difference for our customers and communities. As our Program Manager, you'll contribute to lasting and positive changes that shape the future of our cities and communities. It is complex, meaningful, and exciting work so that our customers experience faster, safer, and more reliable journeys. How you'll make an impact (your day-to-day): Lead a portfolio of capital works programs, bringing together people, priorities, and resources to deliver outcomes that enhance the performance, safety, and longevity of Transurban's critical assets through effective collaborative delivery and relationship building. Build strong partnerships across engineering, asset management, commercial, legal, and operational teams to align strategy with delivery, influence outcomes, and drive successful program results. Create clarity and confidence through effective governance, critical thinking, risk management, financial stewardship, and stakeholder engagement across a complex portfolio of projects. Lead and develop a high-performing team, fostering collaboration, growth, adaptability, innovation, and a culture where people can do their best work. Identify opportunities to improve how we deliver projects, applying AI and data literacy, problem solving, and smarter ways of working to create value for the business and the communities we serve. This role will suit someone with a curious mind and a drive to adapt. We value the transferable skills and experience you could bring, including: Leading complex programs: Successfully delivering large, multi-stream initiatives while balancing priorities, dependencies, budgets, stakeholder expectations, and commercial outcomes. Building trusted relationships: Demonstrated strength in relationship building, influencing and collaborating with diverse stakeholders to achieve shared outcomes, even in complex or fast-changing environments. Thinking strategically: Applying critical thinking and customer-focused thinking to turn long-term goals into practical delivery plans that create lasting value for customers, communities, and the business. Making confident decisions: Using data, insight, AI and data literacy, and sound judgement to manage risk, solve complex problems, and drive progress. Developing people and teams: Creating environments where individuals can grow, embrace adaptability, perform at their best, and contribute to a culture of inclusion, accountability, and continuous improvement. Taking ownership of your career and development means exploring opportunities that stretch you. We aren't looking for a perfect checklist; we are looking for a strong foundation. If your experience aligns with some of the above and you bring a readiness to adapt, we want to hear from you. If you need any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please contact the Recruiter listed for the role. Ready to take on your next challenge? Apply today. Job Type: Permanent Closing Date: 25-Aug-2026 0:00 Please note: The closing date reflects the time zone of the Primary Location for this job posting. Primary Location: Sydney CBD, Inner West & Eastern Suburbs Sydney NSW Transurban is driven by bringing people and places closer. The roads we plan, build, operate and maintain make communities stronger, across North America and Australia. Together, we’re building a future that marries traditional infrastructure with emerging technology. We’re making roads ready for driverless cars and predicting accidents before they happen. We’re getting people where they’re going. And we’re doing it faster, smarter and safer, every last one of us.