Program Resource Planning Manager

Amentum; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amentum in Adelaide is seeking a Program Resource Planning Manager to lead workforce planning, forecasting, and mobilisation across a major program. The role provides workforce insights, manages risks, and develops strategies in partnership with program leadership and stakeholders.

Responsibilities include developing deployment plans, coordinating recruitment, and producing reports and dashboards to support governance and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience in workforce planning and resource management within complex environments.
• Strong analytical capability interpreting workforce, capacity and demand data.

Responsibilities

• Lead workforce planning, forecasting, and resource demand modelling across the program.
• Develop and maintain workforce mobilisation, deployment, and demobilisation plans aligned to program milestones.
• Identify capability gaps, critical roles, resource constraints, and workforce risks, and implement mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate recruitment and workforce transition activities to meet current and future program needs.
• Develop workforce models and conduct capacity, demand, and scenario analyses to support decision-making.
• Analyse workforce data and performance trends, providing actionable insights to leadership.
• Translate program objectives into workforce strategies and resource plans.
• Engage with program leaders, managers and contractors to optimise workforce allocation.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Management, Workforce Planning, Project Management, Engineering, Commerce

Job description

Amentum is a leader in global engineering, project management and solutions integration, trusted to modernise the most critical missions anywhere in the world. Driven to create a safer, smarter, cleaner world, we innovate as a team of inventive doers passionate about making a difference. Underpinned by a strong culture of ethics, safety and inclusivity. Amentum is fiercely committed to operational excellence and successful execution.

Are you seeking a career that offers a healthy work-life balance, a friendly company culture, and engagement with a supportive community?

We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, please refer to our Enterprise Agreement and www.fairwork.gov.au for more information.

Role Description

The Program Resource Planning Manager leads workforce planning, resource forecasting, and mobilisation activities to ensure the program has the capabilities and capacity required to achieve delivery objectives. The role provides workforce insights, manages resource risks, and develops workforce strategies in partnership with program leadership and key stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead workforce planning, forecasting, and resource demand modelling across the program.
• Develop and maintain workforce mobilisation, deployment, and demobilisation plans aligned to program milestones.
• Identify capability gaps, critical roles, resource constraints, and workforce risks, and implement mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate recruitment and workforce transition activities to meet current and future program needs.
• Develop workforce models and conduct capacity, demand, and scenario analyses to support decision-making.
• Analyse workforce data and performance trends, providing actionable insights and recommendations to leadership.
• Translate program objectives into workforce strategies and resource plans.
• Engage with program leaders, functional managers, and contractors to optimise workforce allocation and capability planning.
• Prepare workforce reports, dashboards, and metrics to support governance and performance monitoring.
• Ensure workforce planning processes, data integrity, and reporting comply with organisational standards and support continuous improvement.

Essential Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Management, Workforce Planning, Project Management, Engineering, Commerce, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience in workforce planning, resource management, organisational capability planning, or program delivery within complex environments.
• Strong analytical capability with experience interpreting workforce, capacity, and demand data to support strategic decision-making.

Desirable Requirements

• Qualifications in strategic workforce planning, organisational design, or people analytics.
• Experience within major infrastructure, engineering, defence, government, or large-scale transformation programs.

Required Security Clearance Level: Baseline

Location: Adelaide

Weekly Hours: 40