El 1 - Project Controller
7 days ago
$108,195 - $122,044 (plus Super)
- Brindabella Park - ACT
**The Role**
The Project Controller position responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain project budgets, including tracking expenditures, monitoring variances, and forecasting future spending needs
- Manage project financial transactions, including invoicing, purchase orders, and contract administration
- Ensure compliance with government regulations, policies, and procedures, as well as contractual obligations
- Assist in the development and maintenance of project schedules, including tracking progress, identifying critical path activities, and assessing the impact of delays
- Provide project status reports and updates to senior management, stakeholders, and other team members
- Facilitate communication and collaboration between project teams, stakeholders, and external partners
- Identify and mitigate project risks, including developing risk management plans and contingency plans
- Contribute to the development and implementation of project management best practices and standards
- Monitor and evaluate project performance, including conducting post-project evaluations and lessons learned sessions
**About our Team**
Maritime & Strategic Communications Systems Program Office is a multi-disciplined and inclusive workplace providing opportunity across the number of different projects within the program. Maritime & Strategic Communications Systems Program Office, in partnership with industry, delivers:
- Very Low Frequency submarine broadcast communications for both the US and Australian navies
- Strategic High Frequency communications for the ADF
- Modernisation of maritime communications across the Royal Australian Navy.The Maritime and Strategic Communications Systems Program Office consists of four major elements:
- Strategic High Frequency (SHF) Communications, and the operation and sustainment of the Defence High Frequency Communications System (DHFCS);
- Maritime Communications Modernisation and the sustainment of the Maritime Tactical Wide Area Network (MTWAN) Naval and Shore Communications Sustainment Management Office (NSCSMO)? in Sydney; and
- Naval Communication Station Harold E Holt at Exmouth WA which operates and sustains the Very Low Frequency (VLF) Submarine Broadcast capability.
As a Project Controller with Defence, you will bring the ability to:
- Develop and maintain project budgets, including tracking expenditures, monitoring variances, and forecasting future spending needs
- Manage project financial transactions, including invoicing, purchase orders, and contract administration
- Ensure compliance with government regulations, policies, and procedures, as well as contractual obligations
- Assist in the development and maintenance of project schedules, including tracking progress, identifying critical path activities, and assessing the impact of delays
- Provide project status reports and updates to senior management, stakeholders, and other team members
- Facilitate communication and collaboration between project teams, stakeholders, and external partners
- Identify and mitigate project risks, including developing risk management plans and contingency plans
- Contribute to the development and implementation of project management best practices and standards
- Monitor and evaluate project performance, including conducting post-project evaluations and lessons learned sessions.
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