This is an excellent opportunity for a logistics professional with Defence experience to play a key role in ensuring products are effectively supported throughout their lifecycle, from acquisition through to sustainment.
Contract Details
- 12-month contract
- Full-time engagement
- Outcomes-based contract arrangement
- Cairns based with flexible arrangements
Reporting to the Project Manager, you will work within a small, collaborative team and apply your expertise across logistics management, inventory systems, technical documentation, codification, stakeholder engagement, and sustainment planning.
This role requires a proactive and experienced practitioner who can work with limited direction while delivering quality outcomes in a complex Defence environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and deliver all aspects of Integrated Logistics Support activities.
- Perform codification and cataloguing of items of supply using mandated logistics inventory management systems.
- Identify supplier and repair pipelines and support the establishment of through-life support arrangements.
- Develop, review and maintain technical documentation, including equipment schedules and repair parts schedules.
- Support the introduction into service of products and associated logistics activities.
- Manage inventory transactions and functions within authorised logistics systems.
- Develop entitlement and provisioning documentation in support of capability delivery.
- Act as a key point of contact for logistics support activities and stakeholder engagement.
- Liaise with Defence stakeholders, project teams, military units and industry partners.
- Participate in stakeholder meetings and working groups to ensure delivery of ILS outcomes.
- Prepare reports, briefs and logistics artefacts to support project outcomes.
- Participate in acceptance testing activities and provide recommendations relating to logistics supportability and sustainment outcomes.
- Proven experience as an Integrated Logistics Support Practitioner within Defence or a comparable environment.
- Experience supporting acquisition, introduction into service and sustainment activities across the capability lifecycle.
- Strong understanding of Defence logistics policies, processes and frameworks.
- Experience developing and managing logistics support documentation and artefacts.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgement and manage competing priorities.
- Experience contributing to logistics planning, provisioning, maintenance and sustainment activities.
- Certificate IV in Materiel Logistics or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Baseline Security Clearance.
- Ability to obtain and maintain Defence Industry Security Program (DISP) membership requirements.
- Demonstrated experience with Integrated Logistics Support activities across acquisition and sustainment phases.
- Experience supporting Introduction Into Service (IIS) activities and capability delivery programs.
- Ability to obtain and maintain required Defence system access and approvals.
- Previous experience supporting maritime, amphibious, or military watercraft capabilities.
- Knowledge of Defence logistics and inventory management environments.
- Experience using:
- SAP / S4HANA
- FEDLOG
- MEMS
- MCCAT
- Objective
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Logistics Information Management Systems (LIMS)
If you are an experienced Integrated Logistics Support professional looking for your next Defence contract opportunity, apply now through Chandler Macleod. - Aparna Garg aparna.garg@chandlermacleod.com
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