L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Director, Program Management

Mission Networks

Melbourne, VIC

About the opportunity:

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Director of Program Management to provide overall leadership and management of the Enterprise Network Modernisation Program (ENMP) for Airservices Australia.  In this role, the candidate will maintain full responsibility for the end-to-end management of all aspects fo the program across a broad-spectrum consortium of teammates to lead the transformation and modernization of the Australian Air Traffic system.  This role will be a full-time role working in our Melbourne, Victoria, Australia office and will require occasional travel to customer and supplier locations mostly in Australian capital cities.

This is an opportunity to take on unique challenges, expand your skillset and experience, and contribute to an industry leading Air Traffic Modernisation initiative. 

You will join a dedicated, hardworking and highly experienced team of talented professionals who take a collaborative approach and work as a cohesive team.  L3Harris Technologies, Inc. is a company that prides itself on its reputation as a “Trusted Disruptor” who offers innovative solutions to our customers in an agile business approach.

Essential Functions:

The successful candidate will report to the Division General Manager based in the US, and will share in the responsibility for the overall success of the ENMP Program.  The role requires a candidate who is entrepreneurial and comfortable leading a team in a highly dynamic, challenging and ambiguous environment with a very demanding customer.  Must be experienced and comfortable leading large, complex systems engineering programs in Air Traffic management, defence or telecommunications.

The role requires excellent leadership and communication skills, a positive approach, highly organized and someone who is keen to work hard alongside peers to make their mark in a high volume, exciting commercial environment.

Duties may include the following:

• Responsible for the overall cost, schedule and technical performance of the program across the variety of task order-based Statements of Work. This includes relationship management, maintenance of performance schedules, collaborative subcontractor SOW development, identifying risks, and ensuring a smooth, efficient and on-time delivery to the customer.
• Proactive management of high volume of change. This requires an ability to follow the program’s change process and other change mechanisms developed, ensuring timely responses to change requests, ensuring subcontractors meet tight deadlines at times, and coordinating with the Solutions Architect, Project Engineer, Commercial Manager, Subcontracts Program Manager and the Partners on proposal activity.
• Actively lead and manage required Program level and/or Customer reporting and reviews.
• An ability to effectively communicate both verbally but also in writing; in leading meetings, presentations to the Airservices customer, internal team members and consortium partners.
• Collaboratively resolving issues, conflicts, and/or disputes if they arise.
• Managing and working collaboratively with the broader Commercial and Contracts Team and ensuring all commitments are met.
• Working closely with the ENMP team to both obtain and understand relevant information about issues and communicate that to the wider team and manage them to conclusion.
• Understanding of and management of the Finance team to ensure pricing is correct, to establish, monitor and report budgets and variances using Earned Value.  Keen understanding of telecommunications pricing methodologies and equipment depreciation rules and schedules.
• An ability to think quickly and have a commercial approach to matters with or without guidance.
• An ability to have hard conversations when required in a manner that maintains important collaborative relationships.
• A strong understanding of the Lean Principles and proactive with process improvements to streamline and improve productivity by the team.
• An ability to process complex information quickly and make commercial decisions.
• Ability to generate and present effectively and professionally.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (Engineering, Business, Project Mgmt., Law) with a minimum of 12 years' related experience, or equivalent industry experience; or Graduate degree (Engineering, Business, Project Mgmt) with a minimum of 10 years’ related experience or equivalent industry experience.
• 7+ years’ experience leading Air Traffic, Defence or Telecommunications systems integration projects;
• 7+ years’ experience with Earned Value Management (EVM)

Desirable Skills and Qualifications:

• Background in engineering or technical field
• Background in delivering telecommunications projects within Australia
• Background in delivering projects into a regulated, safety critical industry such as Air Traffic within Australia
• Motivated self-starter with a strong entrepreneurial focus
• An ability to demonstrate the Company’s core values of INTEGRITY (Accountable, Ethical, Honest) RESPECT (Safe & Sustainable, Community-minded, Inclusive), EXCELLENCE (Flawless Execution, Customer-Focused, Innovative) in daily work and activities
• Excellent communication and written skills
• Proven ability dealing with high volumes of change management
• Experience in managing large volumes of work effectively
• Proficient in the Microsoft Suite of products;

About us

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defence technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defence and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 48,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• 5 Weeks annual leave
• Flexible annual leave (buy & sell up to 2 weeks)
• Salary continuance insurance (SCI pays 75% of your base salary and bonus for up to 2 years)
• Discounted private health insurance
• Life & Total Permanent Disability Cover
• Novated Car Leasing

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require an Australian nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet eligibility.

Eligibility and clearance process information can be found at;

https://www.defence.gov.au/security/clearances/about/overview

L3Harris respectfully requests no agency submissions at this time.

As an equal opportunities employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.