Project Managers

Location: QLD, ACT, VIC (Onsite)

Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain Positive Vetting.

Citizenship Requirement: Must be an Australian Citizen

Operating under broad direction, Project Managers will lead multi-disciplinary project teams, applying established project management methodologies and practices to ensure successful delivery of strategic outcomes. The role requires strong leadership, stakeholder engagement, and expertise in managing projects with significant scope, risk, and complexity.

• Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and manage multi-disciplined project teams, providing clear direction, delegation, and guidance.

• Set and maintain performance and behavioural standards, monitor team performance, and develop staff capabilities.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performing team culture.

• Project Delivery & Governance

• Manage project scope, schedule, risks, budgets, and resources to ensure alignment with the company's strategic objectives.

• Prepare high-quality briefings, submissions, reports, and project documentation.
• Support strategic planning, governance functions, and human resource management activities.

• Methodologies & Compliance

• Apply established project management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, SaFE) and organisational practices.

• Ensure compliance with legislative frameworks, government decision-making processes, and policy requirements.

• Risk & Opportunity Management

• Identify, assess, and manage project risks and opportunities.

• Integrate risk management into planning, decision-making, and delivery processes.

• Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across Defence and government.

• Communicate with influence, negotiate effectively, and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Represent the company at briefings, meetings, and inter-agency forums as required.

• Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement

• Analyse and interpret project performance against agreed metrics.

• Develop and evaluate strategies to achieve project outcomes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of project management practices within the company.

Technical Skills & Qualifications

• Formal certification in project management (e.g., PRINCE2, PMBOK, Agile, SaFE, or equivalent).
• Minimum 4 years' demonstrated experience in a project management role.
• Strong proficiency in project management methodologies and tools.
• Proven ability to manage projects with complex technical, operational, or strategic dimensions.

Criteria

You must provide a response to each criterion. Each response is limited to 3000 characters.

Essential criteria

1.Financial management: Level 4 (SFIA)

Monitors and maintains financial records to agreed requirements for compliance and audit. Assists with identifying and calculating process, service, project and component costs for financial planning and budgeting. Collates required financial data and reports for analysis and to facilitate decision-making.

2.Project management: Level 5 (SFIA)

Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects. Provides effective leadership to the project team. Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools. Manages the change control process and assesses and manages risks. Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and delivers regular and accurate communication to stakeholders. Ensures project and product quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure. Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are formally accepted, by appropriate stakeholders. Monitors costs, times, quality and resources used and takes action where performance deviates from agreed tolerances.

3.Requirements definition and management: Level 4 (SFIA)

Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity. Contributes to selecting the requirements approach. Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation of requirements. Establishes requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.

4.Stakeholder relationship management: Level 5 (SFIA)

Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups. Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables. Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders. Acts as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans. Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding. Facilitates business decision-making processes. Captures and disseminates technical and business information.