Location: Brindabella Park, ACT
Contract Duration: 22 September 2025 – 21 September 2026
Engagement Type: Long Term
Clearance: NV1 (must hold)
Level: 3
About the Role:
Assess the affordability and feasibility of different manufacturing investment options by:
* Providing leading cost estimation and cost assurance practices to support regular project development activities, capability assessment and prioritisation activities;
* Providing independent cost estimation and analysis of new projects and proposals as well as cost assurance;
* Establishing a costing capability to support an early understanding of the cost impacts of new projects related to the manufacturing of GWEO.
What You Bring:
* Experience in Defence project cost estimation analysis
* Knowledge of total cost of ownership estimation
* Demonstrated experience in delivering cost estimation services using CCT, ACEIT or TruePlanning tool.
* Knowledge of Defence's costing and cost analysis practices.
* Experience in conducting cost estimation assessments in the Defence and Security and Estate sectors, including evaluating the completeness of the estimate, evaluating the credibility of the estimating methodology and evaluating the validity of the cost estimate value
Deliverables:
Objective 1: Develop project cost estimation models and analyse cost risk and uncertainty, including but not limited to:
a) Use a Defence endorsed costing tool (CCT, ACEIT or TruePlanning tool) to develop cost estimation models for new projects/proposals/gaps as identified by GWEO Manufacturing Division.
b) Analyse risk and uncertainty of the cost estimations.
c) Provide cost briefs, cost assurance and ad-hoc reports as requested to assist GWEO Costing's briefs to higher authorities on the projects' cost estimations when required.
Objective 2: Revise existing GWEO Manufacturing's cost models as required, including but not limited to:
a) Revise existing cost models in accordance with any changes in scope or specification.
b) Provide cost briefs, cost assurance and ad-hoc reports about the revisions when required.
c) Update relevant data with the revised cost estimates as required.
Objective 3: Sharing knowledge on cost estimation and cost assurance with APS staff, including but not limited to:
a) Provide on-going at-work mentoring and training for APS staff on different costing methods, cost estimation techniques; data maturity assessment, data extraction and reporting from different types of models.
b) Provide peer-review of cost estimation models produced by APS staff.
Objective 4: Stakeholder engagements:
a) Participate in meeting with project teams/capability managers and relevant stakeholders, as required, to validate and verify assumptions and inputs into the parametric cost models.
b) Present cost estimation results to relevant stakeholders and address any question as required.