- Full-time permanent position based in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra or Sydney

- Lead scheduling excellence across one of Australia's most significant transformation portfolios

- Mentor and develop a team while establishing best-practice project controls and forecasting capability

Summary

Lead scheduling excellence, mentor a high-performing team, drive project controls, forecasting and governance, and deliver trusted insights for successful transformation outcomes.

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 are helping to secure the future of Australia’s skies and keep it amongst the safest in the world.

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

Reporting to the Portfolio, Program and Project Control Manager, you will lead the Scheduling & Control function within Airservices’ Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO), driving scheduling excellence across a significant transformation portfolio. You will manage and develop a team of schedulers while building robust planning, forecasting and project controls capabilities that improve delivery confidence, schedule predictability and decision-making. Your day will see you partnering with Portfolio Leads, Program and Project Managers, Governance & Assurance, Resource Management, estimating teams and external vendors to establish best-practice scheduling frameworks, maintain schedule integrity, manage dependencies, strengthen governance and provide trusted insights that influence strategic outcomes.

The EPMO is the centre of excellence for project, program and portfolio delivery at Airservices, providing governance, reporting, project controls and specialist delivery support across the organisation's transformation agenda. Team members enjoy the opportunity to shape new ways of working, collaborate with experienced professionals and play a visible role in delivering initiatives that will have a lasting impact on the future of Airservices and the aviation industry.

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

 EPMO - Scheduling and Control Team Leader.pdf

The Person

You are a collaborative and influential project controls leader who thrives in complex environments and enjoys building capability, improving ways of working and driving successful delivery outcomes. You combine strong analytical thinking with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels, translating complex schedule information into meaningful insights that support decision-making and organisational success.

The successful applicant will have:

- Demonstrated experience leading project scheduling and controls activities across complex programs or portfolios.

- Proven capability managing and developing scheduling teams while embedding consistent standards, governance and best practices.

- Strong expertise in project scheduling methodologies including Earned Value Management, dependency management, baseline and change control, and resource-loaded scheduling.

- Experience providing forecast, performance and schedule insights to senior stakeholders to support investment and delivery decisions.

- Exceptional stakeholder engagement, influencing and communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across business, project and vendor environments.

- Relevant tertiary qualifications in a related discipline, with PMI-SP, AACE PSP or similar professional accreditation highly regarded.

At Airservices Australia, we embrace and thrive on diversity of thought, perspectives, and capabilities because we know the benefits of having a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve. We appreciate everyone is unique, and acknowledge diversity in thought leads to greater transparency and improved consideration in our decision making.

We believe a diverse workforce supported by an inclusive culture is central to our success. We actively encourage and welcome candidates from all cultural backgrounds, gender identities, people living with disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply.

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 Specialist at alicia.orourke@airservicesaustralia.com. 

How to Apply

To apply for this position please lodge an application online before applications close 11.55 pm (AEST) Wednesday 22 July, 2026.

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