- Play a key role in shaping Airservices' long-term investment priorities

- Full-time permanent role

- Location - Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra or Melbourne

Summary

This is a unique opportunity to lead Airservices Australia's enterprise capital investment pipeline and play a key role in shaping the organisation's long-term investment priorities.

As the Needs and Pipeline Lead, you will establish and lead a new enterprise capability responsible for identifying, prioritising and managing the capital investment pipeline, ensuring investment decisions are aligned to strategic objectives, operational needs and long-term financial sustainability.

Working closely with Executives across Airservices, you will provide strategic advice, influence investment priorities and help shape the organisation's future Asset and Services Plan. This role is ideal for an experienced leader who enjoys working at the intersection of strategy, investment and enterprise decision-making.

The Organisation

Airservices Australia is a government-owned organisation responsible for the safe and efficient management of 11% of the world’s airspace and provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports.

Our people are our greatest asset with a dynamic and diverse team operating from locations across the country - from bustling cities to regional and remote locations, including an island. This team keep Australia’s aviation industry safe every day of the year, both in the air and on the ground.

We connect people with their world safely – linking family and friends, generating economic activity, creating jobs, and facilitating trade and tourism.

Airservices is committed to fostering a culture that is diverse, inclusive, and respectful.  We encourage motivated individuals who love what they do, value a service first mindset and embrace a challenge to explore a career with Airservices. In return you will be a valued team member, be offered flexibility and experience a meaningful career in an exciting, ever-evolving aviation industry.

Our Leaders

Leaders at Airservices demonstrate our Leadership Standard in the way they Know, Focus, Develop and Value our people every day. Our leaders role model our values of Safe always, Service first, Love what we do, Work as one, Own it to connect people with their world safely.

An Airservices leader leads inclusively, thinks strategically, collaborates and communicates with impact to deliver outcomes that support our culture of trust, care and accountability.

The Role & The Team

Capital Portfolio Management (CPM) is an enterprise function responsible for improving how Airservices plans, prioritises, manages, assures and governs capital investment across the organisation. The function provides independent investment advice to Executive and Board governance forums and plays a central role in ensuring investment decisions deliver long-term value for Airservices, its customers and the aviation industry.

The Needs and Pipeline Lead will establish and lead Airservices' enterprise investment pipeline capability, providing strategic oversight of future investment opportunities from initial business need through to prioritisation and inclusion within the Airservices Investment Plan.

This includes identifying and prioritising organisational needs, shaping the Asset and Services Plan, and ensuring strong alignment between operational requirements, strategic objectives, and financial capacity while maintaining a clear line of sight between the capital pipeline and the Regulated Asset Base.

Please see the link below to view the full Position Description:

 PD - Needs and Pipeline Lead.pdf

The Person

To be successful in this role, 

- Enterprise-level strategic thinking and the ability to translate organisational needs into investment priorities.

- Strong commercial and financial acumen with experience supporting major capital investment decisions.

- Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, including the ability to work effectively with Executives and senior technical leaders.

- Strong analytical capability with experience interpreting complex information to support evidence-based decision making.

- Proven leadership experience building capability and driving organisational improvement.

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Finance and/or Accounting or relevant experience.

- Demonstrated experience in strategic planning leading initiative development and contributing towards the creation and realisation of annual capital investment plans.

- Demonstrated experience in asset or service planning, investment pipeline management, or large-scale capital portfolio coordination.

Airservices Australia is a diverse and inclusive employer that recognises the benefits of having a workforce that reflects the communities in which we work. We encourage applications from diverse groups including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.

Security Clearance

To be eligible to apply, you must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident as an Australian Government Baseline Security Clearance is required for this role. Please refer to the security check requirements successful applicants will be required to undertake as part of the recruitment process.

Should you require any further information please contact Alicia O'Rourke - Talent Acquisition Advisor at alicia.orourke@airservicesaustralia.com. 

How to Apply

To apply for this position please lodge an application including a Cover Letter and CV online before Applications close 11:55pm (AEST) Wednesday 08 July, 2026.

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