Position specification:

Reporting relationships: 

• Reports to the Naval Shipbuilding Institute (NSI) Program Director

Delegated authority levels:

• Delegated responsibility for the Naval Shipbuilding College Project, Workforce Planning Work Stream. This includes responsibility for the delivery of the scope, and the achievement of the schedule and budget for this work stream.
• Subordinate delegated authority to Program Director in accordance with delegated Authority levels within the NSI Joint Venture. Responsible for managing the Workforce Planning Manager and additional Workforce Planning staff members that may be required.

Duties and responsibilities:

• This position reports directly to the NSI Program Director and will work with and support other NSC Managers to develop and execute NSC activities.
• Responsible for the definition, establishment, coordination, delivery and reporting for the Naval Shipbuilding College Project, Workforce Planning Work Stream.
• Responsible for the delivery of the scope, and achievement of the schedule and budget for this work stream.
• The role is responsible as the primary interface with the Senior Industry and Commonwealth stakeholders with regard to workforce development and engagement with regard to market supply and demand modelling. Incumbent will also be responsible for liaising with other Industries or Peak Bodies to further the development and execution of a Naval Shipbuilding Workforce plan.
• Responsible for development of a comprehensive Workforce Model, sourcing the raw supply and demand data for all relevant job roles across the sector. Responsible for building the market supply data picture nationally across the geography’s of interest spanning the priority roles and job families required by the industry stakeholders. Responsible for developing the resource demand database by engagement with the key industry stakeholders and preparing market demand forecasts across all of the priority roles for the industry stakeholders.
• This position plans, prepares, and issues Naval Shipbuilding manpower plans through coordination with Australian shipbuilders to understand the manpower demands and resource requirements to meet the shipbuilding, sustainment and supply chain needs.
• This position also advises management of the status of current demand, manpower gaps, and mitigation plans to ensure requirements are met.
• Builds long term strategies and develops workforce models that include the understanding of labour capacity planning, construction methods and sequencing, scenario planning, complex modelling to ensure future needs are defined and planned.in the identification of the pool of shipbuilding candidates.

Person Specification:

Qualifications:

• Qualifications, Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or the equivalent in business, operations research or mathematics, plus a minimum of 15 years of applicable, progressive professional and/or supervisory work experience. Alternatively a Master’s degree with 10 years experience

Training: 

• Candidate dependent

Essential experience:

• Demonstrated track record of success and leadership within an advanced workforce planning department.
• An advanced level of understanding and competence in an industrialized or maritime field and/or general understanding of several diverse disciplines related to workforce development.
• Solid background in mathematical and IT methods related to manpower planning models, scenario development, labour forecasting, etc.
• Must have had experience working with a team of professionals and ability to develop strong effective relationships with industry partners.

Desirable experience:

• Direct experience within the maritime shipbuilding and/or defence industrialised environment will be a significant advantage.
• Direct shipbuilding workforce management planning experience desirable.
• Beneficial to have production planning experience, labour capacity planning experience using complex modelling tools, and shipbuilding expertise in construction methods and sequencing.