Senior Project Manager (Defence)

At World Kinect, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive.

 

 

World Fuel Services Australia, part of World Kinect Corporation (NYSE: WKC) who is a Fortune 100 company providing aviation, marine and land energy, logistics, and technology solutions to customers and suppliers around the world. The company is a proud global leader in the downstream marketing and financing of aviation, marine and land fuel products, and related services.

Headquartered in Miami, Florida with a   global footprint of over 200 countries and territories, over 4000 employees, and revenues more than $42 Billion, World Kinect offers its customers a value-added outsource service for supply, quality control, logistical support, and price risk management.

As part of the Global WFS Defence Solutions, WFSA DG is to develop and deliver Safe, Sustainable, Affordable, and Innovative deployable energy solutions to the ADF that are: tailored, based on proven global know-how; and enable long term corporate opportunities across the Indo pacific.

Purpose of the Role

As a part of our growth strategy, we have an opportunity for a Senior Project Manager, to join our Melbourne based business. This role reports to the Acquisition Project Director.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, hard-working, experienced Senior Project Manager or Defence Fuel Specialist who has delivered projects across a range of sectors and is seeking their next challenge to develop their career in a renowned worldwide business.

The Senior Project Manager, is responsible for the successful co-ordination, oversight and delivery of the agreed Commonwealth project deliverables associated with the ADF Deploybable Bulk Fuel Distribution capability.  

 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the PM activities and deliverables of the project to Final Acceptance, as well as providing key support in managing and mentoring PM staff
• Establish and maintain the Project Management Plan (PMP) for the lifecycle of project
• Ongoing management of the project cost and schedule, ensuring all necessary project planning activities are captured and identifying and correcting any deviations
• Manage budgeting and cost management including resource planning
• Manage and co-ordinate regular Risk, Issues & Opportunity reviews and manage the risks, issues and opportunity register in accordance with Risk Management processes
• Lead both Customer and governance board reporting as required
• Liaise with and integrate all internal stakeholders including Engineering, Supply Chain/AIC, Finance, Legal, and Commercial to deliver required project outcomes
• Liaise with Customer and external stakeholders to execute project delivery and manage expectations
• Apply a commercially astute and strategic mindset when liaising with Customer and key external stakeholders and to project decision-making and problem solving
• Prepare internal and external reports pertaining to job status and financial performance against agreed budgets and forecasts
• Other project management duties as required throughout the life cycle of the project

Key Requirements:

• ≥ 15 years project management planning, delivery, intergration and leadership experience.
• Extensive project management experience leading and managing complex Defence project.
• Delivered systems engineering projects within a Defence environment.
• Experience managing projects to ASDEFCON requirements using a sound knowledge of the fundamentals.
• A track record of consistently completing projects on time and within budget.
• Well-developed understanding of contemporary PM methodologies.
• Leadership capabilities including the proven ability to motivate, influence, develop and mentor others.

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