(R) Sustainment Maintenance Support Lead - David Boyd

Executive; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Executive is seeking a Sustainment Maintenance Support Lead in Adelaide to ensure maintenance activities align with CASG guidelines across SDACSPO capabilities. You will oversee facility management, asset lifecycle, and governance for government facilities and high-risk plant, including licencing and registrations.

This role requires proactive risk management and coordination with IPSM and SEG teams. The role emphasizes governance of government furnished materiel, regulatory compliance, and

Qualifications

• Experience with asset management lifecycle and governance.
• Familiarity with security, change and configuration management practices.
• Knowledge of statutory and regulatory requirements for government facilities.

Responsibilities

• Anticipate and analyse risks to provide workable solutions aligned with strategic intent.
• Review facilities to ensure compliance with Defence policy and fit-for-purpose status.
• Manage facility assets, including licencing, registrations and certifications.
• Oversee maintenance facilities upgrades and sustainment projects.
• Govern government furnished materiel, licences and registrations as required.
• Ensure safe maintenance operations for high-risk plant and pressure vessels.

Skills

Asset management

Security integration

Configuration management

Governance

Job description

Job Title - Sustainment Maintenance Support Lead
Job Id 1253280

• Security Clearance: NV1 Clearance
• Length of Contract: 9 months
• The role closes on 06/10/2026
• Location: Adelaide, SA

About the Role:

The primary role of the Sustainment Maintenance Support Lead is to ensure maintenance activities are conducted in accordance with CASG guidelines in support of all SDACSPO capabilities.

Key responsibilities of the Maintenance Support Lead are:

• Anticipating, identifying and analysing potential issues and/or risks to provide workable solutions, in line with strategic intent, to IPSM.
• Review Maintenance Facilities to ensure they remain fit for purpose and compliance to Defence policy.
• Facility Asset Management, in consultation with ILSM and SEG (where required).
• Certification and Licencing of Government Facilities and Infrastructure, where required, including on transition into Sustainment.
• Acquisition and Sustainment Upgrade Project Maintenance Facilities Support.
• Maintenance Personnel Management, including review of contractor RACI, Contractor fatigue management plans and contractor certification matrix.
• Governance of Government Furnished Materiel, including statutory obligations, licencing, certifications and registrations.
• Proactive governance of Pressure vessels and other high-risk plant, ensuring appropriate design registration and COMCARE documentation exist.
• Maintenance inventory management.
• US SPO specific requirements for maintenance of spares, in consultation with Supply Support Lead.
• Update ILSAR on release of new infrastructure support manuals for later transition to SEG.
• Review of Acquisition Project documentation for acceptance and transition to Sustainment, as required.
• Review contractor delivered

SFIA Skills Sought:

The management of the lifecycle for all managed assets (hardware, software, intellectual property, licences, warranties etc) including security, inventory, compliance, usage and disposal, aiming to protect and secure the corporate assets portfolio, optimise the total cost of ownership and sustainability by minimising operating costs, improving investment decisions and capitalising on potential opportunities. Knowledge and use of international standards for asset management and close integration with security, change, and configuration management are examples of enhanced asset management development.

ASMG Level 4:

Controls IT assets in one or more significant areas, ensuring that administration of the acquisition, storage, distribution, movement and disposal of assets is carried out. Produces and analyses registers and histories of authorised assets (including secure master copies of software, documentation, data, licenses and agreements for supply, warranty and maintenance), and verifies that all these assets are in a known state and location. Acts to highlight and resolve potential instances of unauthorised assets such as unlicensed copies of software.

"We warmly welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including First Nations Australians, Australian Defence Force and First Responder veterans, women in STEM, and people of all abilities, including those registered with the NDIS."