Project Manager

Company Description

We’re Jetstar. You may know us for our famous low fares, but did you also know that we’ve flown more than 400 million customers since we launched in Australia in 2004? In fact, each week we operate around 3,000 flights to nearly 40 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. We also operate a fleet of more than 80 aircraft, including state-of-the-art Airbus A320/21 NEO aircraft and the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8s. Every day we enable more people to takeoff to more places, more often.

Impressive numbers? What's even more impressive is the team of extraordinary people taking off together day in day out, flight after flight.

Our people are the real jet stars!

Job Description

• Join and shape a JetStar’s Infrastructure
• Flexible ways of working – hybrid model with 3 days onsite
• Full time, 12-month fixed-term opportunity, based at our head office in Melbourne

Love travel and passionate about all things aviation. You’re in the right place. At Jetstar, you get to take-off at work, and in life.

As a team, we’re lucky we get to do both for a living – and we want you to be part of where we go next. Helping our teammates soar is what we’re all about. And with a new fleet of state-of-the-art aircraft, plus new routes being added, the sky’s the limit.

Take-off with your next opportunity!

Jetstar has strong partner relationships with travel agents and other travel companies. We are running numerous projects to lift our technology capability to improve the effectiveness of these partnerships, and ultimately better service our end customers. These projects include new technology, and new processes/capabilities.

At Jetstar, we are seeking a Project Manager (Network & Voice) who will work with existing team members and partners, to define and manage IT project plans, oversee design, build, testing, transition, and implementation of network and infrastructure solutions for Jetstar.

The core responsibilities of this role will be:

• Oversee design, build, testing, transition, and implementation of network and infrastructure solutions
• Lead cross-functional teams and coordinate with architecture, security, and cloud specialists to deliver business outcomes
• Track and regularly report on progress - benefits/scope, schedule and budget – take corrective action when required.
• Identify important dependencies and actively manage these to protect delivery.
• Mitigate risks and manage issues/blockers.
• Determine people and teams required to deliver project. Ensure that roles & responsibilities are defined and understood by people involved. Ensure that required teams are available to deliver to the plan.
• Initiate and run suitable project governance forums to provide updates and facilitate timely project decisions.
• Build and manage key stakeholder relationships, ensure stakeholders are kept up to date on project status and influence to achieve project outcomes.
• Manage vendors who need to contribute to the project delivery.
• Forecast project costs, manage costs to ensure that budget is achieved.

To be considered, key skills will include: 

• 5+ years’ of experience as a Project Manager, managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Proven experience delivering complex network and infrastructure projects in large-scale
• Strong understanding of modern infrastructure technologies - Data Centre, Cloud (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS), Networking, Unified Communications, and Cybersecurity
• Deep technical knowledge in network design, segmentation, SD-WAN, VPNs, firewalls, and zero-trust architecture
• Experience managing managed services preferred
• Relevant tertiary qualification with a degree in Business, Technology and/or relevant field preferred.
• Experience defining project ways of working, and integrating various project team/vendor ways of working (waterfall/agile/etc.)
• Outstanding communication, presentation, leadership, and coaching skills.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Familiarity and experience with Agile ways of working (as some squads are using Agile)

Applications close on Sunday the 19th October

Your life at Jetstar is unlike any other..

Live the travel dream: You and your nominated travel companions can take-off more with our famous Qantas Group Staff Travel discount. 
Make work feel like a holiday: Join a fun, driven team where work feels like a holiday. Our people take every opportunity to take-off together and find ways to help their teammates soar.
There’s a place for everyone at Jetstar:  For us, travel and meeting new people go hand in hand. We invite our people to get involved in various Employee Network Groups that play an important role in creating our inclusive and supportive culture that we are fiercely proud of.  We believe that teams with a diversity of ideas and experiences are more creative, innovative and solve problems quickly.  We welcome applications from anyone who wants to take-off with us.  If you have support or access requirements, just reach out and let us know what you need.
We’re Jetstar.  Let’s take-off together!