Project & Engineering Delivery Specialists - Maritime Program
Project & Engineering Delivery Specialists – Defence Maritime Program
Location: Hybrid – Sydney, NSW
Security Clearance: NV1 Required
Eligibility: Sydney-based candidates only | Previous Defence experience essential
Join a trusted defence consultancy delivering a multi-year transformation within Australia’s maritime capability landscape. This major program focuses on modernising platforms, systems, and delivery frameworks across a highly integrated maritime environment.
We are seeking experienced professionals across project management, systems engineering, delivery assurance, and program support to play a key role in coordinating and executing multiple interdependent workstreams. You’ll work within a structured PMO, collaborating with Defence stakeholders and technical leads to ensure alignment, risk management, and delivery excellence.
This opportunity is ideal for individuals who thrive in fast-paced, highly governed environments and are passionate about contributing to complex Defence capability uplift.
Positions Covered:
- Project Manager
- Project Support Officer (x2)
- Project and Engineering Support Officer
- Program Systems Engineers (x2)
- Combat Systems Assurance Officer
Key Responsibilities:
Project Management & PMO Support
- Manage the delivery of assigned projects or work packages, ensuring scope, schedule, cost, and quality are controlled within Defence governance frameworks.
- Maintain detailed project plans, risk registers, schedules, and stakeholder maps.
- Support program-level reporting, including Earned Value Management (EVM), performance dashboards, and governance packs.
- Facilitate and document regular program review boards, technical working groups, and risk reviews.
- Monitor delivery milestones and support schedule re-baselining when required.
Engineering & Technical Delivery
- Coordinate across systems engineering teams to ensure technical requirements are captured, validated, and met across the capability lifecycle.
- Contribute to or review Systems Engineering artefacts such as Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs), Verification & Validation (V&V) plans, and interface control documentation.
- Ensure compliance with Defence technical standards, interface specifications, and change control processes.
- Liaise with platform engineering teams and OEMs to track the integration and configuration status of subsystems.
Assurance & Governance
- Support the development and review of key Defence documentation including ILS documentation, Test and Evaluation (T&E) plans, safety cases, and engineering change proposals.
- Coordinate Combat System assurance activities to ensure readiness and alignment with capability release requirements.
- Act as a key interface between commercial, logistics, and engineering domains to ensure integrated delivery.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Build strong working relationships with Defence project offices, industry partners, and internal stakeholders.
- Provide briefings, status updates, and decision support material to senior leaders.
- Ensure all activities are conducted in accordance with security, export control, and information assurance policies.
Candidate Requirements:
- Demonstrated experience in delivering complex Defence projects or programs (experience with CASG/SPO, Maritime Systems, or Land/Navy platforms highly regarded).
- Proven capability in one or more of the following domains: project management, systems engineering, combat systems, delivery assurance, or PMO support.
- Strong working knowledge of:
- ASDEFCON and Defence Capability Lifecycle
- Systems Engineering principles (INCOSE, ISO15288)
- P3M methodologies and Defence project governance
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a confident, professional approach to stakeholder engagement.
- Ability to work autonomously, manage competing priorities, and operate under pressure in a complex delivery environment.
- NV1 Security Clearance is mandatory.
- Must be based in Sydney, NSW.
This is a rare opportunity to contribute to a flagship Defence program with national significance, offering career-defining exposure to new systems, structured delivery, and real-world capability uplift.