Work Management Coordinator

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- Location:

- RAAF Base Edinburgh
- Category:

- Trade / Operations
- Position Type:

- Permanent
- Job Reference:

- BOE/1742906E
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**The Opportunity**

We are seeking a talented **Work Management Coordinator** to support a world class airborne intelligence, surveillance, maritime patrol and response service, the P-8A Poseidon. As a member of the Work Management Team, this role will support the development of an enterprise wide work management framework to help improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of all P-8A Sustainment Services. The role is based on the RAAF Base, Edinburgh.

**About the Team**

The P-8A Program has established a Work Management Team (WMT) and requires a new Work Management Coordinator to support the operation of the team. The WMT is broadly responsible for prioritising, allocating, coordinating, and communicating status of all work executed by the P-8A Sustainment Enterprise consistent with BDA Program Management Best Practices. The WMT achieves this by overseeing the entry point for all new work ensuring that all work performed by the enterprise is known, prioritised, and resourced. The WMT also acts as the custodian of the Enterprise Work Management System that provides an unbroken link between Enterprise priorities and individual team workload.

Accordingly, the primary purpose of this role is to support the operation and continuous improvement of the Enterprise Workload Management System within the P-8A Program which:

- Captures and prioritises program tasking in accordance with customer and internal business priorities;
- Allocates work packages to responsible teams and tracks through to completion;
- Ensures issues affecting task delivery are identified and managed;
- Accurately reports status of WIP and task backlogs;
- Forecasts future workload and resource requirements; and
- Identifies Risks, Issues, and Opportunities related to the Programs ability to meet customer delivery requirements.

**Responsibilities**
- Support the operation and continuous improvement of the Work Management System, processes and tools for the P-8A Program;
- Establish strong working relationships with Program Customers and Stakeholders to ensure that their goals and objectives are reflected in the Program's Prioritisation Process (i.e. translating BDA and customer business objectives into priorities that can be applied to the Program's Work Management System);
- Collaborate with Program Delivery Leads to ensure work capacity constraints are understood and reflected in the Work Management System;
- Ensure work is allocated to Program Delivery Teams in line with the Program priorities and capacity and as per the Work Management System processes and procedures;
- Identify and manage business Risks, Issues, and Opportunities (RIOs) relating to the operation of the Work Management System and the Programs ability to meet required delivery outcomes;
- Engage with Program Customers, Stakeholders, and Delivery Leads to forecast future workload and associated resource requirements;
- Development of documentation and configuration management of the Work Management System infrastructure;
- Support the management of Engineering tasking using the Work Management System;
- Report on Program work/task delivery performance;

**Experience/Qualifications**
- Experience in engaging with internal and customer Senior Leaders to understand business objectives and translate into operational priorities;
- Ability to coordinate effectively and work well within a team;
- Well-developed communication skills and the ability to negotiate with internal and external stakeholders;
- Experience working within a complex and collaborative multi-organisational environment;
- Broad understanding or experience in the Sustainment/Through Life Support of complex military systems, preferably in the Aerospace domain;
- Experience working with task management tools, such as Jira and Confluence, would be well regarded;
- Familiarity within engineering task management, would be well regarded;
- Applicants must be Australian Citizens to meet Defence security requirements (NV1).

**About Us**

Boeing Defence Australia is shaping the future of aerospace and delivering some of the nation's most important programs for the Australian Defence Force. From the seabed to outer space, we have helped shape aerospace and defence innovations in Australia over the past 95 years.

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