Senior Project Manager - Hypersonics

Description:

The key duties of the position include
The Role
Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) has a Senior Project Manager position available within our Hypersonics Engineering Discipline of Research Engineering (RE). Reporting to the Group Leader Hypersonics and RE Operations, and operating from the DSTG Edinburgh site, the Senior Project Manager will work as part of a small team responsible for the programmatic leadership of engineering and design professionals delivering an advanced capability to DSTG. They will use their programmatic expertise to apply and develop innovative research engineering techniques to ensure that DSTG remains at the forefront of research and development.
Experience in managing the unique and complex network of challenges associated with the design, analysis, manufacturing, integration, ground test, and trial of hypersonic flight test/demonstrator vehicles is considered essential. The position is integral to the Project Delivery Team executive and has accountability and responsibility for the successful execution of complex long-term hypersonics projects carrying significant technical and programmatic risk. Exemplary client/stakeholder engagement and a proven capacity to effectively communicate with a range of diverse internal and external individuals and teams is a requirement of the role. Also a requirement is a proven track-record of successful achievement working at all stages of the project lifecycle, including the formative initiation phase, in addition to the planning, execution, monitoring and control, and finally close-out stages.
Under limited guidance you will be required to:

• Establish project teams including standing up project organisation structures, communication mechanisms, and governance arrangements that draw upon resources and inputs of stakeholders from within the wider Defence ecosystem.
• Manage hypersonics-related project execution and performance against approved Project Management Plans.
• Identify and manage human and physical resources to achieve hypersonics-related project requirements.
• Report and communicate project issues or concerns (e.g. cost, schedule, scope, technical performance) to clients, sponsors and other stakeholders.
• Set individual project milestones and budgets.
• Project manage complex developmental activities involving multiple parallel and interdependent lines of effort spanning both internal and external groups/organisations.
• Manage project work breakdowns within DSTG's corporate Project and Program Management environment, and make use of RE's Activity Management System.
• Assist with the professional development of other project management staff.
• Display leadership by proactively contributing to the development of new capabilities, including an understanding of future potential requirements, how to satisfy these requirements, and the ability to implement solutions.

About our Team
Research Technology and Operations Division (RTO) delivers specialist capabilities to Defence Innovation Science and Technology (IS&T). RTO comprises a professional workforce of engineers, technicians, computational scientists and other staff who provide a wide range of highly specialised and unique research capability and innovative solutions delivering advanced research platforms for Defence, national security and the wider IS&T ecosystem. RTO capabilities accelerate and protect Defence's science and technology advances and promote a collaborative, compliant, safe and healthy workplace.
RTO's work areas include:

• Emerging digital science capabilities, including computational and data intensive science, research data and information and laboratory and experimental systems.
• Scientific computing including the development and acquisition of a world-class secure High Performance Computing (HPC) capability for advance modelling and simulation.
• Nationally recognised, unique and novel research engineering capabilities.
• Development and implementation of the Outstanding Research Infrastructure Powering Innovation pillar, a major component of the More Together: Defence Science and Technology Strategy 2030.
• Defence innovation, science and technology compliance, assurance and sovereignty through complex research safety, research security, workforce capability and talent and scientific resource management.

RTO also provides specialised research enabling capabilities to other groups and services with Defence, the Australian Intelligence community, our allies and/or our partners in industry and academia. Research Engineering provide professional and advanced manufacturing to Defence to enable delivery of products, prototypes and models for research, development and experimentation. RE fuses talented professional engineering and technical staff with world's best design software and cutting edge fabrication capabilities.
Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for collaborators who will be able to understand the needs of our varied stakeholders and produce results according to their requirements, as well as show flexibility in response to the changing context and shifting priorities of the work program and the agility to realign resourcing to meet that new demand.
The right person for the role will be future focused, ensuring the programmatic functions remain cutting edge and aligned with Defence S&T requirements. They will be senior manager who provides support and guidance to the greater team to ensure they are sensitive to Defence strategic direction and equipped to excel in their capabilities.