Matthew King

Project Manager

Greater Adelaide Area

About

Matthew is a professional technical Project / Operations manager with experience in managing large multi discipline project and business groups with an emphasis on safe and quality outcomes. Whilst maximising return on investment, profits and creating high performing teams. As highly qualified, self-motivated and outcome driven diploma qualified Project and Operations Manager. Matthew is efficient team builder, mentor, with vast experience across most industry sectors, with specific expertise with tier 1 contractors. Industry experience including • Transport and Infrastructure • Defence • Mining and steel manufacturing • Energy • Oil and Gas • Water and Waste Water • Food and Beverage • Autonomous vehicles • General manufacturing. Matthew is committed to ongoing professional development whilst maintaining the highest personal, technical and safety standards. Matthew prides himself on maximising the usage of resources and people around him, empowering people to be the best versions of themself in everything they do.

Experience

  • Project Manager at Ventia
    Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

  • SAGE Automation (Full-time · 3 yrs 3 mos)
    • Senior Project Manager
      Oct 2025 - Mar 2026 · 6 mos

    • Manufacturing Operations Manager
      Jan 2023 - Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    • Manufacturing Operation Manager
      Jan 2023 - Jan 2023 · 1 mo

  • Operations Manager at Traffic Control Systems
    Jul 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • SAGE Automation (15 yrs 3 mos)
    • Project Team leader
      Sep 2015 - Jun 2022 · 6 yrs 10 mos

      As part of the project executive group, the role is to manage the pastoral care, professional development and workloads of 10 professional engineers and project managers with in my group

    • Senior ITS Project Manager
      Jul 2015 - Jun 2022 · 7 yrs

      As part of the Darlington upgrade project, Matthew was the Senior ITS Project Manager delivering a $9M fully managed motorway as part of the $650M project completed by Gateway South. Matthews position required • Team building and mentoring of a tight nit project team. • Contract development and management • Detailed design of the managed motorway system • Full cost, schedule and quality management • Management of the procurement of project materials • Management of Subcontract and suppliers • Tier 1 contractor Client management • Manufacture of cabinet and panels. Darlington upgrade project high lights include • 26 x ITS Cabinets with 4 hour UPS back up and redundant fibre networks • 100 x Field gantry, barrier or wall cabinets. • 7 x Traffic signal cabinets for control of key ITS infrastructure • CER building Including o 6 CER cabinets o Electrical fit out o Communications o Security fit out o 1 hour UPS backup o and 8 Generator backup of complete CER building • 88 x Thermal Imaging Camera’s (TID’s) for auto detection of pedestrian, stopped vehicle and dropped object detection on the managed motorway. • 42 x PTZ cameras for coverage of the managed motorway including surface roads • Type A and B VMS Signs including gantries • 80 x LUM’s Signs for automatic speed and lane management of the motor way. • 3 x CMS signs • 2 x TiRTLs • Full integration of the systems to Steams and IndigoVision. Including FAT, SAT, SIAT and OST testing

    • Senior Project Manager
      Apr 2007 - Jun 2022 · 15 yrs 3 mos

      Project manager of medium to large electrical automation projects in the food and beverage, manufacturing,mining and oil and gas industries.

  • Klemzig Primary school Governing council member at Klemzig Primary School
    Mar 2010 - Nov 2020 · 10 yrs 9 mos

    Governing council member and has been the chair of the council since 2017