Project Manager (Electrical & Communication – Defence)

About the Opportunity

Our client is expanding their Defence division and is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support the delivery of large scale electrical installation and fit out projects across NSW. This is a growth hire, driven by an increasing pipeline of work within a nationally recognised Defence program.

The successful candidate will join a national team delivering multiple projects across Defence sites. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with Defence stakeholders and contribute to the ongoing growth of the business.

Australian Citizens are encouraged to apply, with sponsorship support available for obtaining security clearance where required. NV1 clearance is highly regarded.

The Role

You will manage 2-3 concurrent Defence projects while supporting the successful delivery of electrical installation, fit out, and building services works.

You will have regular client engagement and travel across project sites as required. All travel costs will be covered.

You will also play a key role in mentoring junior team members and supporting broader business growth initiatives within the Defence portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

* Manage the end-to-end delivery of electrical installation and fit out projects
* Oversee project delivery from estimation and planning through to commissioning and handover
* Coordinate electricians, subcontractors, suppliers, procurement, and scheduling activities
* Prepare estimates, variations, and support tender submissions
* Monitor and revise project budgets, forecasts, and project performance
* Ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, and within budget
* Manage project commencement, stakeholder engagement, and site mobilisation activities
* Work collaboratively with Commonwealth stakeholders and Defence clients
* Support and mentor junior team members
* Assist in identifying and developing new business opportunities

Essential Requirements, Non Negotiable

To be considered for this opportunity, candidates must meet all of the below criteria:

* Australian Citizenship is mandatory
* Must be able to successfully pass a full Police Check and Defence related background screening
* Must have a hands-on Electrical background with trade qualifications
* Must have previous experience working as a Project Manager delivering electrical installation, fit out, construction, or building services projects
* Must have practical experience understanding, estimating, quoting, and managing electrical project delivery
* Experience managing electrical subcontractors, site teams, and project schedules is essential

Applications that do not align with the above requirements will not be considered.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate strong project management capability along with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced and high-pressure environment.

You will also bring:

* Previous experience delivering Defence, commercial construction, fit out, or large-scale electrical projects
* Strong understanding of electrical project delivery methodologies and site operations
* Experience managing multiple concurrent projects
* Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
* Strong organisational and problem-solving abilities
* The ability to manage workload priorities effectively under pressure
* A collaborative and professional approach with strong personal values and cultural fit

Background

Candidates will ideally come from an electrical contracting, construction, building services, or electrical fit out background.

Security Clearance

* NV1 clearance is preferred
* Australian Citizenship is required
* Sponsorship support for Defence clearance processes can be provided for suitable candidates

Working Arrangements

* Based in North Shore
* 1 day per week working from home
* On-site client engagement expected as part of the role

• Permanent (On-Going) Position
• Melbourne CBD Location | Hybrid Working Arrangements
• Financial Services | Quant Development

The Role: The Technical Delivery Lead will play a critical role in driving the technical delivery of roadmaps and ensuring successful outcomes in Real Asset, Responsible Investment and other investment domains.

The Responsibilities:

• Lead, motivate, and develop delivery teams to achieve successful delivery of complex initiatives and BAU changes.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive & integrated delivery plans aligned with workstream’s business plan objectives, product roadmap and stakeholder expectations.
• Define and manage delivery scope effectively, identify & define success criteria and proactively address scope creep and changes.
• Monitor delivery progress closely against plans and schedules, identifying and mitigating risks, issues, and dependencies promptly.
• Manage delivery resources effectively, optimizing utilization and ensuring efficient workload distribution.
• Plan, design, and execute deployment and release processes, ensuring smooth and successful delivery of solutions to production environments.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of initiative goals and progress.

Skills & Experience Required:

• A minimum of 8 years of experience as a Technical Delivery Lead within the financial services, previously working directly with investors to scope and deliver technical solutions.
• Background will include delivering software solutions within investment front office / quant environments is essential.
• Demonstrated understanding of the SDLC and technical delivery of complex investment solutions (analytics and models).
• Strong background in delivery outcome focused environments and extensive experience collaborating across Business and IT delivery team
• Quality Management: Expertise in quality assurance and control processes, including testing methodologies and defect management.

What’s in it for you:

• Permanent (On-Going) Position
• Melbourne CBD Location | Hybrid Working Arrangements
• Financial Services | Quant Development

Apply today and Ronald Tran will reach out to disclose further information.

Program Manager // Initial 12-month contract with the possibility of extending up to 2 years

Talent International have partnered with one of the most prominent Government Agencies to find their next Program Manager.

The position is perfect for someone who has previously lead large scale Technology implementation programs or enterprise transformation programs.

What we are looking for:

• Proven experience leading large technology implementation or enterprise level transformation programs,
• Baseline Clearance required,
• Experience with stakeholder management,
• Strong program governance, planning, reporting, risk management experience,
• Australian Government experience highly desirable.

What’s on offer:

• Competitive daily rate,
• Hybrid working arrangement,
• Sydney CBD location,
• Exposure to Australian Government.

If you are someone who has previously worked within Australian Government and are looking to get back in then apply today!

Program Manager // Initial 12-month contract with the possibility of extending up to 2 years

Talent International have partnered with one of the most prominent Government Agencies to find their next Program Manager.

The position is perfect for someone who has previously lead large scale Technology implementation programs or enterprise transformation programs.

What we are looking for:

• Proven experience leading large technology implementation or enterprise level transformation programs,
• Baseline Clearance required,
• Experience with stakeholder management,
• Strong program governance, planning, reporting, risk management experience,
• Australian Government experience highly desirable.

What’s on offer:

• Competitive daily rate,
• Hybrid working arrangement,
• Sydney CBD location,
• Exposure to Australian Government.

If you are someone who has previously worked within Australian Government and are looking to get back in then apply today!

Master Schduler

Federal Government

Long term contracting opportunity 12 Months + extensions

Overview:

As a Master Scheduler, you will play a key role in developing and maintaining an enterprise-level schedule that acts as the single source of truth across a diverse portfolio of digital initiatives. Your expertise will help align projects to strategic objectives, strengthen delivery confidence, and support effective resource planning.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced scheduling professional who enjoys strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and contributing to high-impact public sector programs.

Required Skills:

• Proven experience developing and managing integrated master schedules across complex, multi-program environments.
• Strong capability in dependency mapping, critical path analysis, and schedule risk management.
• Demonstrated experience working within a PMO or portfolio management function.
• Ability to translate complex schedules into meaningful insights for senior stakeholders.
• Familiarity with governance and assurance frameworks in complex, regulated environments, such as Australian Government.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Previous experience supporting large-scale digital or ICT-enabled transformation programs.
• Experience working collaboratively with program and project managers to improve scheduling discipline and maturity across delivery environments.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Formal qualifications in project management, scheduling, or portfolio management.
• Demonstrated capability working within regulated or complex organisational environments.

Other Requirements:

• You may be required to participate in workshops and governance forums and provide schedule-based insights to support decision-making.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities.

Apply now or to fast track you applicaiton send you CV to luther.borgas@talentinternational.com

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect – Core Ledger to provide strategic leadership, architectural governance, and design direction for this critical domain. You will define the target-state architecture, guide migration from legacy core platforms to modern capabilities, and ensure seamless integration across the enterprise ecosystem.

This role plays a key part in enabling safe, compliant, and value-driven transformation by working closely with business, technology, risk, and delivery teams, as well as leading and mentoring a team of solution architects.

What You’ll Do

• Define and evolve the target-state architecture for the Core Ledger domain, including retail banking capabilities
• Lead architecture design for the migration to a modern core banking platform, including coexistence and legacy retirement strategies
• Shape integration between core ledger systems and enterprise domains such as customer, product, integration, and regulatory/reporting
• Ensure alignment between domain architectures and enterprise-wide business, data, application, and technology strategies
• Provide architectural leadership, guidance, and assurance through design reviews and governance forums
• Identify, assess, and manage architectural risks, dependencies, and constraints, working with stakeholders to resolve them pragmatically

What You’ll Bring

• Extensive experience as an Enterprise or Domain Architect in large, complex organisations
• Strong understanding of banking products and core ledger systems, ideally within retail banking environments
• Proven experience delivering large-scale platform migrations or core system transformations, including transition states
• Deep knowledge of integration architecture, data flows, APIs, and event-driven design patterns
• Understanding of financial, regulatory, and reporting requirements in core banking environments
• Familiarity with modern architecture frameworks and concepts (e.g. BIAN desirable)
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across executive, technical, and delivery levels
• Ability to operate effectively in a collaborative, team-based environment

Working Style & Culture
This role operates in a hybrid working environment with strong emphasis on collaboration, delivery impact, and enterprise-wide alignment. You’ll be part of a culture that values:

• Creating opportunities through innovation and continuous improvement
• Delivering what matters with pace, care, and strong risk awareness
• Succeeding together by working across teams and challenging constructively

Integrity, accountability, respect, collaboration, and excellence underpin the way work is delivered and decisions are made.

Interested?

For a confidential discussion about this opportunity, please contact Jenny Nguyen at jenny.nguyen@talentinternational.com.

Please note: Applicants must be based in New Zealand and hold a valid work visa to be considered for this role. Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

We are seeking two experienced Area Grid Planners to support the establishment of a new Area Grid Planning capability within a major national transmission infrastructure environment.

These roles will help integrate and coordinate planned work across projects, maintenance, and capital programmes, ensuring safe, efficient, and well-sequenced delivery across a complex and critical network.

About the Role

You will work across:

• Grid Delivery – project delivery and maintenance execution
• Grid Development – future network planning and investment direction

The focus is to create a single, integrated view of outages, sequencing, dependencies, constraints, and risks across multiple portfolios.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate outages and network work across multiple programmes
• Identify and manage dependencies, constraints, sequencing conflicts, and risks
• Optimise timing, access, and scheduling across delivery teams
• Support integrated planning across maintenance, capital works, and customer connections
• Facilitate planning discussions and governance forums
• Provide planning insights, reporting, and recommendations to stakeholders
• Contribute to continuous improvement of planning processes and data quality

About You

You will have strong experience in outage planning, network operations, or large-scale infrastructure delivery environments.

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in:

• Electricity transmission or distribution networks
• Rail, transport, or other complex infrastructure environments
• Utilities such as water, gas, or telecommunications
• Project controls, scheduling, or integrated planning roles

You will ideally bring:

• Strong outage planning and sequencing capability
• Experience managing complex dependencies across multiple stakeholders
• Ability to work in operational and delivery-focused environments
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to influence and coordinate without direct authority
• Exposure to governance or planning forums (advantageous)

What’s on Offer

• 2 x key contract roles shaping a new national planning capability
• High-impact work across a complex infrastructure network
• Strong collaboration with engineering, delivery, and planning teams
• Exposure to large-scale, critical infrastructure programmes
• Flexible location options (Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch)

Location

• Wellington
• Auckland
• Christchurch

• Exceptional candidates in Hamilton or Palmerston North may also be considered.

If you are an experienced Outage or Network Planner looking to step into a high-impact infrastructure planning environment, we would love to hear from you.Apply now !!!!

Note:Applicants must be based in New Zealand and hold a valid work visa to be considered for this role. Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

For over 30 years Talent has been redefining the contracting experience with industry leading support, exclusive contractor benefits & a world-class digital platform ENGAGE to access it all. Apply today to see how we can elevate your career

Our client is an ASX-listed national services provider supporting critical infrastructure delivering technology and operational services across essential industries. They are seeking an experienced Senior Scrum Master (Agile Project Manager) to help reset and drive delivery on a major SaaS application implementation and integration program. This is a high visibility role in a pressured environment, best suited to someone who is resilient, stays calm, works hard, and can bring structure and momentum on a complex remediation program.

ROLE DETAILS:
Contract: 12 months initial (extensions likely)
Location: Melbourne CBD (hybrid 3 days onsite / 2 WFH)
Daily Rate: $900 – $1100
**Eligibility: Australian Citizen (mandatory)**

ABOUT THE ROLE:

You’ll be joining a program to implement a new SaaS/COTS application across multiple divisions needing to be re-baselined and calibrated. You’ll work closely with the executive (CIO and GM level engagement) and lead multiple delivery teams (2-3+) to rebuild cadence, remove blockers, and drive outcomes across multiple workstreams. The environment requires a pragmatic approach to methodology and will require an adaptable approach to get delivery back on track, whilst keeping stakeholders informed with clear reporting and visibility. A background in waterfall project management (Prince2, PMBOK) and Agile (SCRUM, SAFe) would be ideal to enable you to pivot approaches to deliver. In the longer-term, the role will help uplift Agile capability in the team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Stabilise delivery and drive progress across a complex, re-baselined program
• Facilitate delivery across multiple streams and squads (including vendor-managed resources)
• Lead core ceremonies and ways of working where they add value (stand-ups, planning, reviews, retros)
• Actively remove blockers, manage dependencies, and drive action on risks/issues
• Maintain clear, consistent reporting and transparency on progress, velocity, risks and delivery outcomes
• Partner with stakeholders to keep priorities clear, approvals moving, and teams focused on delivery
• Support delivery of the program (integration/middleware exposure helpful)

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Strong experience as a Release Train Engineer / Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager / Delivery Lead on large, complex ICT programs, ideally in regulated or government-facing environments
• Pragmatic agile delivery capability (Scrum/Kanban) and waterfall (Prince2, PMBOK) – comfortable adapting for hybrid delivery and approach to deliver outcomes
• Demonstrated resilience: able to operate under pressure, handle executive sponsor scrutiny (CIO and MD level), and keep projects moving without losing composure
• Strong stakeholder management and communication – can provide clear updates to senior stakeholders and keep delivery accountable
• Experience with COTS/SaaS application-based project implementation and integration
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, MS Project and project reporting

APPLY:
Submit your resume, or for further information please contact
Reece Prideaux – Talent International
reece.prideaux@talentinternational.com

For over 30 years Talent has been redefining the contracting experience with industry leading support, exclusive contractor benefits & a world-class digital platform ENGAGE to access it all. Apply today to see how we can elevate your career

Our client, a leader in materials testing for the US defense sector, is searching for a Customer Project Manager to join their team in Camden, Arkansas. This is an excellent opportunity to join a company that is ensuring the safety of our country and performing extremely complex testing procedures. If you are passionate about helping customers, and making the world a safer place, this could be the role for you!

This role is located in onsite in Camden, Arkansas. Please take this into consideration when applying.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure customer satisfaction, with a high level of customer service and excellent client-facing skills
• Ensure customer’s testing projects are on-time, on-budget, and successfully completed
• Track and monitor project from quote to finish, reporting stages to customers and lab general manager
• Ensure utmost customer satisfaction
• Liaise with technical team, ensuring feasibility of projects and monitoring status and deliverables

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of customer service, account management, sales, or project management experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Prior experience in testing is highly preferred but not required
• Ability to work onsite in Camden, Arkansas

Please apply if this role sounds interesting to you, and we will reach out with more information!

Join an established and growing Crest Salesforce Partner as a Senior Salesforce Consultant. Our client offers fully remote working flexibility and they also provide an opportunity for career growth to move into an Architecture position in the future. There are multiple positions available on the consulting team and there is flexibility with the role’s start date. They are able to accommodate extended notice periods and vacations.

This is a Senior level position and will require someone who has experience leading an implementation before.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and evaluate business systems and processes
• Work within Sales or Service Cloud
• Project Management experience: can implement waterfall and agile frameworks
• Stakeholder management: can lead client calls and gather requirements
• Business Analysis, Project Management and Implementation experience

Experience required:

• Previous Salesforce Consulting experience
• Sales and Service Cloud project implementation experience
• Salesforce Administration Certification

If you are interested, please respond or contact Jason Pho from Talent on 929 527 1784