- Pay
- A$70–102k
- Where
- Sydney, New South Wales, GB · GB
- Level
- Mid
Join a enterprise Defence & Government company as a Defence Project Manager in Sydney.
Australia's defence spending is climbing year on year, and the programmes behind that growth need people who can actually run them.
This employer is an established name in Defence & Government, the kind of organisation that wins long-term contracts rather than one-off jobs.
They need a Defence Project Manager who's done this before and won't need their hand held.
Here's what you'll be doing: Running defence programmes from initiation through to delivery, keeping scope, budget and schedule under control Coordinating with engineering, procurement and compliance teams across multiple concurrent workstreams Managing stakeholder relationships with government clients and senior internal leadership Tracking risk registers and escalating issues before they become problems Preparing programme reporting for both internal governance boards and external defence clients Ensuring all project activity meets relevant security and regulatory requirements for the defence sector Here are the skills you'll need: Several years of project management experience, ideally within Defence & Government or another regulated, high-stakes environment Formal project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent) Confidence managing budgets in the hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars Strong stakeholder management.
You'll be the person both engineers and government clients trust to tell them the truth Comfortable working with security clearance requirements and classified information handling Clear written and verbal communication, including formal reporting to senior boards Key perks and benefits: Salary of A$69,500 to A$102,000, depending on experience Hybrid working arrangement based in Sydney Comprehensive benefits package including private medical and dental insurance Enhanced pension scheme and performance-based bonuses Structured career development within a large, established organisation Why pursue a career in Defence & Government?
Defence budgets in Australia aren't shrinking any time soon, and Sydney sits at the centre of a lot of that activity.
A Defence Project Manager who builds a track record here has genuine long-term security, not just a job title.
Few sectors reward discipline and follow-through as consistently as this one does.
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