Aps 6 - Contract Management Officer

$85,607 - $97,790 (plus Super)
- Brindabella Park - ACT, Penrith - NSW

**The Role**
- Do you want to take your career to the next level?
- Do you want to challenge yourself across some of the most complex and challenging projects in Australia, if not the world?
- Do you want to enhance your procurement and contract management skills?

As a Contract Officer, working in Explosive Materiel Branch (EMB) in the Department of Defence, you will be working on some of the most exciting and complex guided weapons and explosive ordnance products used by the Australian Defence Force.

The Contract Officer will administer a Major Service Provider (MSP) Standing Offer arrangement. The arrangement is used to engage a skilled contracted workforce in support of delivering Defence capability.

You will spend your days:

- Investigating, analysing and providing timely quality contract management and procurement advice to stakeholders; and
- Planning and delivering critical procurement and contract management activities.

Your ability to be customer focused, have excellent communication skills, show initiative and solve problems will be key to allowing you to deliver outcomes.

Note: There may be some domestic business travel associated with this position.

We currently have vacancies in Canberra (ACT), with potential vacancies located in Penrith (NSW).

**About our Team**
The Business Management Office is an integral part of Explosive Materiel Branch within Land Systems Division, which is part of Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG).

Our team is made up of various disciplines (including engineering, project management, commercial, logistics, and corporate enabling services). We are located in Canberra, Penrith, Amberley and Melbourne and are focused on acquiring and sustaining guided weapons and munitions for the Australian Defence Force.

Explosive Materiel Branch is dedicated to providing our staff with a diverse, manageable, favourable work-life balance, and we support flexible working arrangements. We will also invest in your training and development to ensure your time with us is deeply rewarding, both personally and professionally. We are committed to achieving a workplace culture that is inclusive and diverse; one which directly reflects the needs and scope of Defence’s varied operational requirements. EMB is a group of approximately 560 dedicated employees.

Our mission is acquiring and sustaining guided weapons and munitions for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) across the life-cycle phases: requirements setting; contracting; procurement; international logistics; domestic manufacturing; item management and maintenance, and co-ordination of disposal activities.

EMB partners with domestic and international industry to deliver materiel capability to Defence, managing a multibillion-dollar portfolio of complex, high-profile acquisitions and sustainment activities to support the ADF. Our people are capable, innovative, committed and diverse. We support an inclusive culture, that emphases respect and collaboration. In EMB, you will enjoy experiences and opportunities that, as an APS employee, you simply would not get with any other organisation.

Other benefits include:

- 15.4% superannuation.
- Access to personalised professional development pathways, including opportunities for Defence-funded post-graduate study.
- Additional leave days between Christmas and New Year.
- Focus on work/life balance; and
- Salary sacrifice opportunities.

The right person for this role will be an individual who:

- Has an understanding of, or the ability to quickly acquire an understanding of, Defence procurement and contracting processes.
- Is solutions focused, can ‘think on their feet’ and manage multiple and competing priorities in a calm and logical manner.
- Is adaptable and willing to work as part of a nationally distributed team, and with remote customer groups.
- Is self-motivated and committed to professional development and business process improvement.
- Displays adaptability and flexibility required to respond to the needs of their stakeholders.

Defence is committed to recruiting the right people, in the right jobs, at the right time. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. You will enjoy working in a team to come together and excel in order to achieve organisational objectives, whilst continuing to pursue your own self-development goals.