Project Management Office (PMO) Lead, Flagship Funds APAC

Earlier this year, building on the strong foundation of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) as a fund manager, we introduced an optimized CIP Platform, with three platform companies providing services to CIP. To learn more, please refer to the CIP Platform section below.

In our optimized CIP Platform, CIP Terra Technologies – a project delivery company delivering projects from onshore wind, solar PV and battery energy storage systems, to bioenergy, thermal and transmission infrastructure – is currently looking for Project Management Office (PMO) Lead to join the team in Brisbane, Australia.

Team

The team currently consists of ~25 employees with renewable energy backgrounds. The CIPTT team in Australia is delivering some of the largest renewable energy projects in Australia across BESS, onshore wind and pumped hydro. The successful candidate will become part of the growing CIPTT team with offices across Melbourne, Newcastle, Sydney & Brisbane. Regular travel between offices may be required, including regular attendance at the Project team office in Brisbane.

Role

We are looking for a Project Management Office (PMO) Lead to own project governance, planning and reporting on a major (400MW+) onshore wind and BESS project in Queensland through construction and to COD. The project is in the final stages of development and will have a 3-4 year construction period.

The PMO Lead is a key role in the construction project organisation, reporting to the Project CEO and acting as the Project CEO’s PMO focal point. The role provides structured coordination across workstreams, ensuring the project leadership team has clear, current and decision-ready information on programme, risks, opportunities, actions, interfaces and governance status.

The PMO Lead is accountable for the project’s governance, planning, reporting and decision-coordination framework, including the integrated master schedule, the SteerCo reporting cycle, project controls coordination and cross-contract interface visibility, implementing CIPTT’s project management standards and delivery model across governance, stage gates and execution.

The PMO Lead role is primarily office-based, with periodic site visits as required. A key is establishing an effective, high productivity working relationship with the integrated project management team (IPMT), which provides the project’s schedulers, project controls and reporting specialists. We are open for other locations in Australia.

The PMO Lead is accountable for the project’s governance, planning, reporting and decision-coordination framework, ensuring baselines are maintained, decisions are tracked and the project leadership team, SteerCo and Board receive timely, consistent and decision-ready information. The position is central to the Project ensuring that multiple contract interfaces can be derisked with active schedule management and effective communication for teams and package leads working on a remote worksite.

Leadership & Coordination:

• Act as the Project CEO’s PMO focal point, providing structured coordination across workstreams and ensuring the project leadership team has clear, current and decision-ready information on programme, risks, opportunities, actions, interfaces and governance status
• Implement CIPTT’s project management standards and delivery model in alignment with governance, stage gates and execution requirements, and establish and maintain PMO tools in line with CIPTT standards

Governance & Reporting:

• Establish and coordinate the Project reporting cycle, including receiving contractor reports and compiling information to meet the Projects reporting obligations to SteerCo, lenders and other counterparties
• Own project governance, planning and reporting, including the project reporting cadence, governance forums, decision coordination and preparation of materials for monthly SteerCo reporting
• Coordinate governance across the project’s multi-party delivery model, including leadership team forums established under the project’s services agreements, ensuring agendas, papers, minutes and action logs support timely decisions and escalation
• Coordinate project reporting systems and dashboards, ensuring schedule, cost, risk, progress, commercial and decision data are structured, consistent and available for Project CEO, SteerCo, Board and wider project leadership reporting
• Align the IPMT’s weekly and monthly reporting cycles with the owner’s monthly SteerCo and Board reporting, avoiding duplication and ensuring consistency of data across reports

Integrated Master Schedule:

• Own owner-side oversight of the integrated master schedule as the single source of truth, maintained by the integrated project management team (IPMT) under the project’s services agreements, ensuring contractor schedules, project milestones, baseline changes and key dependencies are integrated into the overall project schedule and reporting framework
• Review and assess progress measurement, critical path analysis, schedule float and forecast completion dates, ensuring delay scenarios and recovery / re-sequencing options are visible to project leadership

Milestones & Delay Visibility:

• Track contractual milestones with commercial consequences – including hold points, energisation and offtake- or financing-linked dates – and coordinate with commercial and contract-management leads to ensure delay events, extensions of time and associated claims are visible in governance reporting

Project Controls:

• Coordinate the project controls operating model, working with cost, schedule, risk, commercial and contract-management leads to ensure baselines, forecasts, change control, risk and opportunity reporting and monthly project reports are aligned

Decision Tracking & Management Visibility:

• Manage decision tracking and management visibility, ensuring key decisions, approvals, actions, risks, opportunities, issues and escalations are clearly logged, allocated, followed up and reflected in governance materials

Interface Management:

• Establish and maintain an effective working relationship with the IPMT’s schedulers, project controls and reporting specialists, providing functional direction and ensuring services are delivered in line with project needs, within the overall IPMT relationship managed by the EPC Director
• Support the transition of project management responsibilities between delivery partners, including baseline handover, document control continuity and reporting continuity

You

We are looking for a high-performing individual holding a relevant degree or similar and a minimum of 8 years of full-time experience, with demonstrated experience in a similar PMO, project controls or project services role with comparable responsibilities on complex infrastructure projects. Renewable energy experience will be viewed positively.

We look for the following in a candidate:

• Deep understanding of project delivery, governance, planning and control processes
• Familiar with integrated project delivery models and baseline management, including scope, schedule, risk and change control
• Detail-oriented with a structured and methodical working style
• Strong communication skills with the ability to convey complex topics clearly to senior stakeholders
• Skilled in facilitating collaboration and problem-solving across multidisciplinary teams
• Proficient in navigating technical, commercial and financial information
• Experienced in managing reporting systems, documentation and interface coordination
• PMI certification or equivalent formal project management training is viewed positively

The process

Please apply online as soon as possible as applications will be processed on an ongoing basis. For questions related to the role, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at Sign in to view email. We do not include CV's and Cover Letters sent by email.

As we continue to improve our candidate experience, diversity and avoid unconscious bias, please avoid having a photo in your CV. We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality for all applicants.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations and ownership.

CIP Terra Technologies’ commitment to diversity and inclusion

CIP Terra Technologies is committed to securing a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels respected and heard.

A diverse workforce allows CIP Terra Technologies to achieve results through different approaches and solutions to task execution and problem solving. We want all our employees to have equal opportunities for personal growth and career opportunities regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, nationality, and ethnicity.

About CIP Terra Technologies

CIP Terra Technologies is a project delivery company working for CIP. CIP Terra Technologies is majority owned by the funds managed by CIP, with the purpose of delivering best-in-class project development and execution services to the growing portfolio of land-based renewable energy assets.

We engage in the energy transition through specialist project delivery, value creation, and collaboration with trusted third-party suppliers. Our core focus is the development, procurement, construction, and delivery of renewable energy projects, and we provide a variety of services including technical development, engineering, supply chain, construction management, and project execution.

We provide global support and a local presence in our key markets, and our teams are continuously delivering and refining services tailored to a wide range of technologies – from onshore wind, solar PV and battery energy storage systems, to bioenergy, thermal and transmission infrastructure. For more information, please visit CIP Terra Technologies.

Optimized CIP Platform

Earlier this year, we introduced an optimized CIP Platform. With three platform companies providing services to CIP—and while maintaining our current relationship with Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP), CIP’s exclusive offshore wind development partner—we have effectively strengthened our organizational and operational capabilities, creating a platform scaled for growth and designing the CIP blueprint for the future.

We have established CIP Molecule Technologies, a tech-focused project delivery company dedicated to molecule projects; CIP Terra Technologies, a tech-focused project delivery company managing a diverse portfolio of onshore projects; and CIP Fund Solutions, a delivery company with expertise in complex fund management and investment services. For more info on this, please see: Optimized CIP Platform.