Manufacturing Product Manager

Leidos; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a Manufacturing Product Manager to lead the manufacturing contribution to complex programs, connecting program priorities with production capability and reliable delivery outcomes.

You will develop and integrate manufacturing plans, own cost and schedule commitments, coordinate readiness reviews, and partner with multidisciplinary teams to meet quality and contractual requirements across programs.

Qualifications

• Experience leading manufacturing, production, industrial operations in a complex engineering or regulated setting.
• Ability to develop and manage manufacturing plans, schedules, budgets and forecasts.
• Experience supporting transition-to-production activities and readiness reviews.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and presentation skills across governance forums.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and integration of manufacturing plans from concept to production, ensuring producibility and design-to-cost outcomes.
• Own manufacturing cost and schedule commitments, including production build planning, budgets, baselines and forecasts.
• Coordinate Manufacturing Readiness and Production Readiness Reviews, make-or-buy activities and capital/resource planning.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to define and implement manufacturing processes and program artefacts per requirements.

Skills

Manufacturing leadership

Production planning

Budgeting & forecasting

Risk & opportunity management

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulated environment

Job description

About Leidos Australia

At Leidos Australia, our work goes beyond a job title. We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life.

Backed by a global organisation of more than 40,000 people, our Australian team of around 2,000 has partnered with government, defence and national security customers for more than 30 years. We deliver mission-critical solutions where reliability, trust and purpose matter.

Leidos is a destination for people who want their work to have purpose, their contribution to be recognised, and their career to grow without needing to fit a single mould. Meaningful work is supported by benefits, flexibility and career pathways that help you grow while balancing life outside work.

This includes:

• Flex Your Way - Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.
• Wellbeing That Matters - Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.
• Learn Without Limits - Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.
• Work That Makes an Impact - Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.
• Build Your Future - Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.
• And Much More - These are just a few of the ways we invest in our people and help them thrive.

About the Team

You'll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. In practice, that means sharing ownership, solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context, the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes.

Mission Software Systems (MSS) brings together expertise across intelligence, software, and cloud to deliver end-to-end capability supporting the full intelligence lifecycle, from planning through to dissemination and feedback. The team fosters a culture of innovation, leveraging modern engineering practices and shared infrastructure to rapidly build, test, and deploy software solutions across a range of environments, including cloud. MSS also plays a key role in advancing technology modernisation within Government, delivering scalable and adaptable solutions for complex enterprise challenges.

The Opportunity

This role is an opportunity to lead the manufacturing contribution to complex programs, connecting program priorities with production capability, operational readiness and reliable delivery outcomes. As the Manufacturing Product Manager, you will be the primary manufacturing and operations interface across Program Management, Engineering, Sourcing, Quality and other business functions.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the development and integration of manufacturing plans from the concept phase through transition to production, supporting producibility, design-to-cost outcomes and the achievement of Manufacturing Readiness Levels.
• Own manufacturing cost and schedule commitments, including production build planning, budgets, baselines, forecasts, performance reporting and contributions to the Integrated Master Schedule.
• Coordinate Manufacturing Readiness Reviews, Production Readiness Reviews, make-or-buy activities, capital requirements, resource planning and the resolution of production risks, issues and priorities.
• Partner across multidisciplinary teams to ensure manufacturing processes, procedures and program artefacts are defined, maintained and implemented in line with organisational, contractual and quality requirements.

About You

We are looking for someone who can bring manufacturing, program delivery and commercial considerations together to support informed decisions and dependable production outcomes.

Essential:

• Experience leading manufacturing, production, industrial operations or product delivery activities within a complex engineering or regulated environment.
• Capability in developing and managing manufacturing plans, production schedules, budgets, forecasts, resource requirements and operational performance commitments.
• Experience supporting transition-to-production activities, manufacturing or production readiness reviews, risk and opportunity management, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to work collaboratively across Program Management, Operations, Engineering, Sourcing, Quality and Finance, translating program requirements into practical manufacturing outcomes.
• Well-developed stakeholder engagement, reporting and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate cost, schedule, readiness, risk and performance information across governance forums.

Advantageous:

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