PMO Lead (Brisbane)
In your role as PMO Lead, you will be responsible for managing and overseeing Ingenuity’s project delivery, ensuring consistent quality across multiple engineering disciplines. You will support successful client outcomes by guiding project execution and monitoring key milestones and risks on your own projects while leading your team of Product Development Managers and Project Coordinators in theirs. You will have visibility across all projects and will be responsible for overseeing and developing the Project Management Office (PMO), working with key stakeholders to ensure priorities, resourcing, and communication are effectively managed throughout the product development life cycle.
Your key responsibilities are:
- Nurturing strong client relationships as the primary contact on your projects, and offering guidance to your team when they need additional support, ensuring open, clear communication across all project areas.
- Defining and governing project scope and requirements in collaboration with clients and internal teams, ensuring feasibility, quality, and alignment with business objectives.
- Translating client needs into clear technical direction for our design teams and overseeing delivery across the full product development lifecycle.
- Leading cross-functional teams by setting technical standards, reviewing product architecture, and promoting our consistent, integrated approach to product development.
- Developing PMO team capability through coaching, training, and knowledge sharing to improve technical excellence and project delivery maturity.
- Managing technical and commercial risks and dependencies with the support of the R&D team, intervening where required to maintain momentum and project success.
- Driving continuous improvement of delivery processes, tools, and governance to improve efficiency and quality.
- Owning and reporting on PMO performance metrics, including delivery timelines, budget management and client satisfaction, and using insights to inform improvements and future planning.
Accountabilities and Performance Goals
You will be accountable to:
- The Ingenuity management team and our customers for:
o Performing your work and applying your skills to the highest standard in alignment with our quality management system
o Delivering project milestones and tasks efficiently and in line with company and project budgets
o Accurately capturing and accounting for work time to ensure timely billing to customers
- To Ingenuity and our teams for:
o Bringing a positive and “can do” attitude to work everyday
o Being an active and helpful participant in each team you form part of and seeing tasks through to completion
o Learning and sharing new skills which benefits our colleagues and customers
o Keeping our workplace safe and making it a positive and fun environment to work in
The following skills and experience are required for this role:
- Be an Australian citizen, permanent resident or hold a working visa
- A relevant qualification from a reputable education organisation (e.g. Bachelor of Engineering)
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a project management or product lead role
- A background in product design and development
- Extensive leadership and team management abilities
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of ISO 13485 & 9001 regulatory requirements pertaining to product development
- Understanding of a variety of production/manufacturing processes
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
If you are passionate about creating innovative, human-centric products and want to do it as part of one of Australia's leading product design teams, this unique opportunity is for you! Work on a diverse range of products, showcase your excellence in design and bring cutting-edge products to life.
We've created one of the largest multi-disciplinary product development consulting teams in Australia, and we're continuing to grow.
We provide comprehensive design services to leading Australian and international companies for a wide range of industries. These include consumer, commercial, sporting and leisure, industrial, automotive, bio-medical, mining applications and more.
Our development team spans industrial and mechanical design, electronics, embedded, iOS, Android, Linux app, web servers and more. We provide a full turn key service for our customers and a unique opportunity for creative, passionate, professional designers and engineers to continue to develop their skills with us.
Our Brisbane office is located in the inner-city area with convenient access by road and public transport.
We provide workplace flexibility by allowing staff to work from home for part of the week.
Only applicants who meet the required criteria will be contacted for the next stage.
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PMO Lead