Title:
MPS Project Coordinator
Your KBR future – delivering solutions and changing the world
About KBR:
We are a company of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, volunteers and dreamers who all share one goal — to improve the world.
KBR delivers science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 34,000 people performing diverse, complex, and mission-critical roles in 33 countries.
For 65 years, KBR and its heritage companies are proud to have delivered some of Australia’s largest and most complex projects.
With around 2,000 employees in 6 primary offices throughout Australia, we are committed to social and environmental sustainability and delivering projects with a digital mindset driving innovation within our business and for our customers.
We help ensure mission success on land, in the air, at sea, in space and cyberspace for our defence customers. From individual technologies and services to comprehensive project delivery and mission execution, no other company can match the breadth and depth of KBR.
KBR comprises a diverse team who provide a broad spectrum of capabilities across Australia and the Asia Pacific. Our proven project teams readily address complex and multi-disciplinary activities, providing low-risk and cost-effective solutions to the defence force.
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The Opportunity:
The Project Coordinator provides technical expertise and advice to support the MPS Project Manager and MITSS. Under direction from the Project Manager, this position plans, organises, coordinates, and controls the scheduling of team tasking, priorities and sprint planning activities in accordance with the established policies, procedures, systems, and requirements approved by the company.
The Project Coordinator has responsibility to the Project Manager in providing the required deliverables in accordance with the agreed project schedules and deliverables. The role is responsible for ensuring that required project information is available when and where it is needed to support other service management processes.
Responsibilities:
1. Responsible and accountable for assigned project(s), including performance accountability
2. Coordinate and execute project operations and activities
3. Provide support and input to capture and business pursuit activities
4. Meet project scope, schedule and budget plans
5. Provide meeting secretariat support to scheduled project and program meetings.
6. Assist in workforce planning in support of current projects and/or assigned proposal capture activities
7. Assist the Project Manager in customer and stakeholder engagement
8. Act with a degree of autonomy and personal accountability for team outcomes
9. Attend and provide secretariat support to relevant customer meetings as required
10. Report on project status as required
11. Contributing to the identification and managing of technical risks and issues within the support to operations scope.
12. Reviewing, verifying, and improving documentation produced in support of project development and sustainment.
13. Meet assigned tasks within the requested project deliverables.
14. Build and maintain relationships at all levels
15. Foster a positive work environment that is professional, dynamic and innovative.
As the ideal candidate you will bring:
16. 3-5 years' experience within a project management coordination role.
17. Qualifications in related technical and/or project management field
18. Experience in software development environments
19. Strong client and staff engagement, relationship and communications skills
20. Strong organisational and coordination skills
21. Current or eligible to obtain a Defence security clearance
22. Highly articulate with excellent attention to detail.
23. Well-developed interpersonal skills.
24. Experience in providing meeting secretariat role in support of drafting minutes and distribution to key stakeholders.
Desirable Skills and Knowledge
25. CASG/Defence/Defence Industry experience.
26. Project Scheduling experience
27. Advanced Office Computing Application knowledge in Win10, Excel and Word.
28. Software Testing experience
29. Ability to integrate Power BI with Azure Devops, to analyse and generate required interactive dashboards for sprint planning activities and support to the MPS PM
What we will offer you:
30. A workplace culture certified as a Great Place To Work
31. Flexible working
32. Competitive salary (including annual reviews)
33. Paid parental leave
34. Income protection
35. Corporate rewards
36. Salary packaging/Novated leasing
37. Employee stock purchase plans
38. Flu shots, skin checks and discounted private health insurance
39. Career development: Online learning, mentorship and career pathways
If you’re ready to shape tomorrow, let’s get started. Apply Now!