Deputy Program Manager

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR electronic warfare secure communications aerial refueling special air missions aerial firefighting and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing building and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service spanning people finance platform operations legal and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas EMEA and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects not just equipment. By owning the full stack from the lab to the field we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. Its a fast-moving intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility work on problems that matter and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington DC with facilities across the United States the United Kingdom as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Metrea is actively building its presence in Australia as part of a deliberate globally coordinated expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. Our Asia-Pacific Market Group headquartered in Brisbane with an additional office in Perth is the enterprises dedicated regional interface connecting Australias national security community with Metreas full suite of capabilities across three core domains: Aerospace Electromagnetic & Cyber and Digital & Synthetic. Metrea is now bringing that same depth of mission expertise and proven operating model to Australia.

Underpinning these capabilities is a global network of Support Groups spanning people finance platform operations legal and engagement ensuring that as we grow in Australia we do so with the full weight of an established global enterprise behind us.

Metreas solutions are built for elegance: effective efficient and evolving enabling our partners to scale capacity and achieve asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

We are seeking a Deputy Program Manager to serve as the primary execution partner supporting a strategic Australian customer. Embedded within the customer environment this role is responsible for coordinating program activities integrating multiple workstreams managing stakeholder relationships and ensuring delivery commitments are achieved across a complex customer-facing operational environment.

Reporting to the Senior Program Manager the Deputy Program Manager serves as the operational focal point and transition in manager for day-to-day execution. The role translates program objectives into actionable plans drives coordination across internal and external stakeholders and maintains visibility into schedule risk performance and customer priorities. Success is measured through execution excellence customer confidence operational discipline and the ability to consistently deliver positive program outcomes in dynamic environments.

• Lead day-to-day execution activities supporting a strategic Australian customer
• Develop and maintain integrated schedules and execution plans
• Coordinate delivery activities across multiple stakeholders and workstreams
• Manage risks issues assumptions and dependencies
• Prepare customer-facing and executive-level reporting products
• Facilitate governance forums reviews and planning activities
• Ensure alignment between operational activities and customer expectations
• Monitor program performance against established objectives
• Support opportunity development and future growth initiatives
• Identify and implement process improvements that enhance execution effectiveness

• Bachelors degree or equivalent operational Defence technical or professional experience
• Typically 6-10 years of project program operational military or customer-facing experience
• Experience leading complex projects or customer-facing initiatives
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments
• Experience supporting defense aerospace aviation government or national security customers preferred
• Strong planning scheduling risk management and execution skills
• PMP certification preferred

• Private Health Insurance
• Generous PTO
• Annual incentive plan
• Paid parental leave
• Life and disability insurance
• Income Protection Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Novated Car Leasing

Ability toobtainandmaintainan AGSVASecurity Clearance

We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgroundsexperiencesand perspectives. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and make hiring decisions based on capability potential and alignment with our values. If yourequire any adjustments throughout the recruitment process please let us know.