Project Controls / Scheduler at Amentum

City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

10 May, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

09 Feb, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Project Management, Scheduling, Risk Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Communication, Team Collaboration, Decision Making, Governance, Planning, Analysis, Cost Management, Resource Planning, Defence Environments, Integrated Scheduling, Capability Development, Health Checks, Task Coordination

Industry

Defense and Space Manufacturing

Description

Amentum is a leader in global engineering, project management and solutions integration, trusted to modernise the most critical missions anywhere in the world. Driven to create a safer, smarter, cleaner world, we innovate as a team of inventive doers passionate about making a difference. Underpinned by a strong culture of ethics, safety and inclusivity. Amentum is fiercely committed to operational excellence and successful execution. Are you seeking a career that offers a healthy work-life balance, a friendly company culture, and engagement with a supportive community? We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities. People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, please refer to our Enterprise Agreement and www.fairwork.gov.au for more information. About the Role: This position operates under direction to deliver project controls and project support tasks within a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team by performing the following outcomes of Integrated Scheduling & Planning, Risk & Assurance Management, Strategic Communication & Governance, and PM Support & Capability Uplift at ACEASPO. You will be under limited direction, with a strong focus on enabling informed decision making, schedule integration, and enterprise maturity. What’s Involved: Develop and Maintain Integrated Schedules to create and manage schedules in OPP, incorporating dependencies, logic paths, risk factors, and resource constraints to support ACEASPO activities. Plan and Coordinate Work Packages by support planning and sequencing of work packages aligned to capability milestones, system development pathways, and change requests. Produce and maintain standardised artefacts to deliver artefacts covering scope, schedule, cost, risk, and resource planning to support baseline management and informed decision-making. Conduct Schedule Assurance and Variance Analysis by performing health checks, analyse schedule performance, and provide recovery advice to Project Managers. Liaise with Stakeholders by building strong relationships and act as a point of contact for enquiries across ACEASPO, ACS Branch, AFHQ, DSTG, and industry partners. Risk Governance and reporting administering ACEASPO’s risk framework, maintain Predict updates, facilitate governance forums, and embed risk-based decision-making. Strategic Communication and Governance by preparing executive briefs, governance artefacts, and PM reports to ensure transparency and alignment with CASG frameworks. Capability Uplift and Best Practice to help support workforce development through coaching in project controls and scheduling tools, and contribute to CASG Project Controls community initiatives. Tasking Governance by helping oversee coordination and clearance of Branch level tasking through the Head of Group (HoG) Task and Action Tracker (TAT), ensuring timely follow up, and completion to maintain ACEAPO’s alignment with ASD and CASG priorities. Resource and cost variations are modelled. Production of standardised suite of products to support Project Governance Boards (PGBs) Undertake project controls assurance activities (observation, measurement, analysis, health checks) in order to provide specialist advice and support to Project and Product Managers, i.e.Business Case on presented management opportunities and/or risk treatment briefings. Where applicable proactively engage and support the CASG Project Controls community seeking to leverage best practice and enhance processes and procedures. Mature the ACEA Enterprise knowledge of knowledge of Project Controls and the application of risk based decisionmaking through training and coaching Perform complex planning to support the development of work breakdown structures, identify activities and work packages required to meet project and product objectives/milestones, Customer Change Requests and Critical Path analysis. Who we’re Looking For: You’re a Project Controller/Scheduler person who brings both technical reliability and the experience to help drive the schedule and assist in the project controls space. You are comfortable and would excel in working in a multi-disciplined team in an integrated working environment to contribute to the successful delivery of ACEASPO products and artefacts by performing outcomes under limited direction, with a strong focus on enabling informed decision making, schedule integration, and enterprise maturity. You’ll Need: NV1 Security Clearance Demonstrated project management experience in complex Defence or aviation environments (OPP and PREDICT experience highly sort after). Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within integrated teams. Strong understanding of project controls, scheduling tools, and risk management frameworks. High-level communication, proven examples of stakeholder engagement and adaptability Ability to be able to demonstrate Compliance with Acquisition and Sustainment Procurement Reform, ERP, and NDS requirements. Timely receipt of activity progress updates from project stakeholders. On-time delivery of enabling inputs from ACS Branch. Be able to manage the Integration of external schedules into Defence-specific formats and frameworks. Demonstrated stakeholder engagement skill Essentials: Active Negative Vetting Level 1 (NV1) Security Clearance Location: RAAF Base Amberley, (near Ipswich), ACEASPO. Please note On-site presence at Amberley is required to support integrated team operations. Flexibility of Working from home, dependent on task on Friday's. Weekly Hours: Monday to Friday / 40 hours per week Welcome back! We encourage you to check on the status of your current job applications with us. You can also search for a list of our current job openings and see if there are any new positions that might be a good fit for you. Thank you for continued interest in employment with Amentum. For more than 100 years, Amentum has tackled the world’s toughest challenges to deliver agile and steadfast solutions to the U.S. government and its allies. With more than 50,000 employees on all seven continents and in more than 60 countries, Amentum delivers a broad range of operational support services to meet the critical needs of our clients. Our headquarters are in Chantilly, VA. Find us online at https://www.amentum.com/ If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at TAOps@amentum.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. 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Responsibilities

The role involves delivering project controls and support tasks, including developing integrated schedules and conducting schedule assurance. It requires liaising with stakeholders and supporting project governance and risk management.