Mps Project Coordinator

**Title**:
MPS Project Coordinator

**Your KBR future - delivering solutions and changing the world**

**About KBR**:
**We are a company of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, volunteers and dreamers who all share one goal — to improve the world.**

KBR delivers science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 34,000 people performing diverse, complex, and mission-critical roles in 33 countries.

For 65 years, KBR and its heritage companies are proud to have delivered some of Australia’s largest and most complex projects.

With around 2,000 employees in 6 primary offices throughout Australia, we are committed to social and environmental sustainability and delivering projects with a digital mindset driving innovation within our business and for our customers.

We help ensure mission success on land, in the air, at sea, in space and cyberspace for our defence customers. From individual technologies and services to comprehensive project delivery and mission execution, no other company can match the breadth and depth of KBR.

KBR comprises a diverse team who provide a broad spectrum of capabilities across Australia and the Asia Pacific. Our proven project teams readily address complex and multi-disciplinary activities, providing low-risk and cost-effective solutions to the defence force.

Learn more about our business here.

**The Opportunity**:
The Project Coordinator provides technical expertise and advice to support the MPS Project Manager and MITSS. Under direction from the Project Manager, this position plans, organises, coordinates, and controls the scheduling of team tasking, priorities and sprint planning activities in accordance with the established policies, procedures, systems, and requirements approved by the company.

The Project Coordinator has responsibility to the Project Manager in providing the required deliverables in accordance with the agreed project schedules and deliverables. The role is responsible for ensuring that required project information is available when and where it is needed to support other service management processes.

**Responsibilities**:

- Responsible and accountable for assigned project(s), including performance accountability
- Coordinate and execute project operations and activities
- Provide support and input to capture and business pursuit activities
- Meet project scope, schedule and budget plans
- Provide meeting secretariat support to scheduled project and program meetings.
- Assist in workforce planning in support of current projects and/or assigned proposal capture activities
- Assist the Project Manager in customer and stakeholder engagement
- Act with a degree of autonomy and personal accountability for team outcomes
- Attend and provide secretariat support to relevant customer meetings as required
- Report on project status as required
- Contributing to the identification and managing of technical risks and issues within the support to operations scope.
- Reviewing, verifying, and improving documentation produced in support of project development and sustainment.
- Meet assigned tasks within the requested project deliverables.
- Build and maintain relationships at all levels
- Foster a positive work environment that is professional, dynamic and innovative.
- 3-5 years' experience within a project management coordination role.
- Qualifications in related technical and/or project management field
- Experience in software development environments
- Strong client and staff engagement, relationship and communications skills
- Strong organisational and coordination skills
- Current or eligible to obtain a Defence security clearance
- Highly articulate with excellent attention to detail.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills.
- Experience in providing meeting secretariat role in support of drafting minutes and distribution to key stakeholders.

**Desirable Skills and Knowledge**
- CASG/Defence/Defence Industry experience.
- Project Scheduling experience
- Advanced Office Computing Application knowledge in Win10, Excel and Word.
- Software Testing experience
- Ability to integrate Power BI with Azure Devops, to analyse and generate required interactive dashboards for sprint planning activities and support to the MPS PM

**What we will offer you**:

- A workplace culture certified as a Great Place To Work
- Flexible working
- Competitive salary (including annual reviews)
- Paid parental leave
- Income protection
- Corporate rewards
- Salary packaging/Novated leasing
- Employee stock purchase plans
- Flu shots, skin checks and discounted private health insurance
- Career development: Online learning, mentorship and career pathways
- KBR acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connections to land, sea, community and culture. We pay our respects to Elders past and present._
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