Job Description

About Us

IAG Defence & National Security (DNS) is part of IAG, a specialist advisory firm supporting complex infrastructure, Defence and national security programs across Australia.

Our DNS team works closely with Commonwealth agencies and industry partners to deliver specialist expertise into nationally significant programs. Our success depends on our ability to identify, engage and mobilise highly specialised talent quickly and effectively. IAG is recognised as Veteran Friendly Employer under the Veteran Employment Program.

The Role

We are seeking a suitably qualified and experienced Systems Manager to operate as an embedded part of the team.

The Minors Systems is made up of various Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) and purpose
built Geospatial and Intelligence Deployable ICT Systems.

Specific Tasks for candidate's primary responsibility:

• The Systems Manager will work independently with the opportunity for
  reasonable autonomy and accountability for the achievement of outcomes
  of their work.
• They will exercise both initiative and judgement in the interpretation of
  policy and in the application of practices and procedures.
• They will provide detailed systems engineering technical and professional
  advice in relation to complex work.

Essential job criteria:

• The Systems Manager will exercise a considerable degree of independence
  and perform a leadership role.
• They will exercise sound decision making and judgement to support capability sustainment requirements in line with stakeholder requirements.
• They will have in-depth knowledge of the Defence Capability Life Cycle and are responsible for the development, implementation, compliance and review of policies and procedures
  relevant to the function of capability sustainment.
• They will provide detailed product management technical, professional and policy advice in
  relation to complex work and contribute to strategic planning, program and project management and policy development.
• Manage the sustainment of the CA40 Minors enterprise systems to the
  required level of capability within the assigned budget in line with the Army
  Product Management Plan (PMP).
• Analyse, develop and implement product management options that
  achieve optimal use of Defence assets, balancing cost, opportunities and
  risks against desired asset performance, including system reporting,
  stakeholder liaison and engagement, configuration management, security
  accreditation, system reviews, CIOG change management, budget
  management, procurement activities for software, hardware and licensing,
  contract management, and other governance activities as directed.
• Procurement - responsible for the conduct of simple and comprehensive
  procurement in accordance with Commonwealth Procurement Policy and
  Divisional/Branch/SPO processes. This includes but not limited to drafting
  of Endorsement to Proceed (EtP), Section 23 (s23) and AE 643 documents.
• Responsible for inventory management activities and through life
  processes of the capabilities supported.
• Liaise with operational stakeholders to ensure that operational
  requirements related to sustainment are satisfied.
• Support Systems Engineer with maintaining engineering authority and
  system baseline of the systems as part of the authorised engineering
  processes.
• Act as Commonwealth representative during system testing activities
  conducted by contractors, when required.
• Provide advice as required to stakeholders, including Capability Manager,
  contractors, Fundamental Inputs Capability (FIC) stakeholders and Boards.

Travel – Infrequent interstate travel may be required.

About You

As the successful candidate, you will possess the following skills:

• Ability to solve complex problems and manage issues to support delivery of
  capability, including understanding of the technical, operational and
  logistical requirements.
• Ability to analyse, design, plan, execute, and evaluate work to time, cost
  and quality targets while assessing and evaluating risk, Communicates
  highly effectively, both formally and informally including advanced
  technical writing skills.
• Ability to perform an extensive range and variety of complex technical work
  demonstrating creativity, initiative and responsibility.
• Establishes milestones and has significant influence over the allocation and
  management of resources appropriate to given assignments.
• Builds appropriate and effective business relationships.
• Demonstrated significant experience with systems and software safety,
  security and managing technical risk.
• Demonstrated experience with networking, computers and operating
  systems.
• Takes initiative to keep skills up to date, maintaining awareness of industry
  developments and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Evaluates and ensure that the capability sustainment meets requirements
  in line with legislation, policy and regulatory frameworks.
  Preferable Defence experience:
• An understanding or user level experience of relevant application(s) such as
  Military Integrated Logistics Information System (MILIS) Defence and/or
  CASG experience.
• Understanding of land material technical integrity in line with the Technical
  Regulatory Framework (TRF) – Land Material Safety Manual (LMSM).

What we offer

With offices in Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canberra, we’re a tight-knit team, working across some of Australia’s most critical infrastructure and Defence projects. We come from diverse backgrounds and pride ourselves on our flexible, supportive and collaborative team culture. We can offer great work, great people, great culture, great conditions, and an all-round great time, whilst you go about developing a great career in this space.

As part of IAG, you’ll be joining a team of more than 250 professionals’ working across a range of integrated workstreams in a friendly and approachable environment.