5 Management Program jobs in Australia

**Company Description**
"I enjoy working for AECOM because of its people. For me, having a work culture that aligns with your own moral code is critical, and AECOM truly lives by its commitment to support its people to thrive. I also love being part of a business with a true global reach and the opportunity to deliver some of the world's most complex and challenging programs." _-_ **_Sam Darrington Director PgM Operations, Strategy & Growth - ANZ_**
**Come grow with us.**
Our program management team delivers structured, outcome-driven projects that create social, economic, and environmental value. With expertise across services, markets, and geographies, we manage critical programs in defence, transport, clean energy, water, disaster recovery, and more. Partnering with public and private asset owners, we drive transformational change from early planning to project completion, ensuring lasting impact throughout the program lifecycle.
**Everyone belongs at AECOM.**
We're committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging - because great ideas come from diverse perspectives. AECOM is proud to be a **Fortune 500 Most Admired Company** , a **WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, #Work180 Equitable Workplace Awards 2025 Winner** and an **AWEI Bronze Tier LGBTQ+ Inclusive Employer.**
**Job Description**
We're looking for a passionate Program Management Intern to be part of our Brisbane team.
Join a collaborative and high-performing Project and Program Management team at AECOM, where we deliver complex infrastructure projects across sectors such as transport, water, and renewable energy. You'll gain hands-on experience working alongside experienced project and program managers, helping bring critical infrastructure to life while ensuring quality outcomes for our clients.
**How you'll make a difference:**
+ Support the delivery of major infrastructure programs by assisting with schedule, budget, and quality tracking
+ Help prepare and manage project documentation, reports, and stakeholder communications
+ Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to monitor progress and identify risks or issues
+ Contribute to all project stages, from initial planning through to delivery and operation
**What Our Summer Internship Program Offers**
We will provide support and direction to ensure you have an inspiring and positive placement with us, ready to resume your studies in 2026 with new knowledge and practical insights.
+ **12-Week Full Time Paid Internship (Mid-November to Mid-February): ** Options for flexibility on time frames if needed.
+ **Practical Application of Knowledge: ** Gain hands on experience and apply what you've learnt during university.
+ **Iconic Project Exposure: ** Work on high-profile projects with a variety of clients.
+ **Work alongside Technical Experts: ** Work alongside graduates, technical experts, and industry leaders.
+ **Career Connections: ** Build meaningful long-term connections.
+ **Support Network:**  Benefit from guidance and support from your manager, team, AECOM University and our Talent Management team to achieve your goals.
+ **Pathway to Graduate Employment:**  Explore opportunities to transition to an AECOM Graduate position following a successful placement.
**Qualifications**
+ Undertaking a Bachelor's or Postgraduate degree in Civil Engineering or Project / Construction Management.
+ Be in your penultimate year or earlier of study at an Australian or New Zealand University.
+ Able to commence work from mid-November 2025 to mid-February 2026 (Flexible).
+ You must have full working rights to work in Australia or New Zealand before applying.
**Additional Information**
**Our Recruitment Process   **
1. **Submit Your Application:** Complete the job application, uploading your resume, cover letter and the latest copy of your academic transcripts as one single document.  
2. **Online Assessment** : Complete our global online strength-based assessment.  
3. **Phone Screen:** You may be invited to a phone screen with our Early Careers Recruitment team.  
4. **Interview** : Attend a face-to-face interview at your local office.  
_Applications are reviewed as they come in, and the role may close earlier than expected, so if this opportunity sounds like you, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible._
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AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $13.1 billion in fiscal year 2022. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
**Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity**
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together - your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.
**ReqID:** REF50826U
**Business Line:** Water
**Business Group:** DCS
**Strategic Business Unit:** ANZ
**Career Area:** Program & Project Management
**Work Location Model:** Hybrid
**Legal Entity:** AECOM Australia Pty Ltd

**Our Purpose**
_Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._
**Title and Summary**
Managing Consultant/PMO, Advisors Program Management
All About Us
The Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing expertise that helps our customers grow. This team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. We combine traditional management consulting with our rich data assets and in-house technology to provide our clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, test-and-learn business experimentation, and information and risk management services. While specializing in the payments industry, Mastercard Services also works closely with major retailers, airlines, and other enterprises, leveraging data and insights garnered from within and beyond its network.
All About the Role
Make an Impact as a Managing Consultant, Advisors Program Management
Advisors Program Management is an execution-oriented client-facing competency that applies proven, accredited change skills and domain experience to partner with clients and help them drive measurable value by:
- Developing new products and strategies and ensuring smooth and efficient delivery to market.
- Strengthening client's internal skills, knowledge and experience in critical areas.
- Successfully implementing complex technology assets and delivering the most challenging transformation programs to create the new business as usual.
- Transforming client processes and optimizing their management practices.
As a Managing Consultant you will be responsible for a portfolio of projects that support a strategy, a strategic change or initiative with significant impact on the organization. Through this role you will manage complexity and inherent risks across a wide range of business areas, where there are strong interdependencies and shared resources, and you will manage benefits from their initial identification and definition through to realization.
All About You - Skillset
This is a position that spans across two disciplines:
1) Program Management:
- Proven experience in the delivery of large digital enterprise level programs across the financial services sector from initiation to benefit realization, employing Agile principles.
- Successful leadership of PMOs across different clients/businesses, identifying and mitigating risks, solving issues, developing plans and ensuring they are implemented in line with agreed timescales, budgets and quality criteria; including examples of re-aligning scope and objectives during a program to maximize value.
- Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams across large multi-faceted project teams.
- Able to use own initiative, develop solutions or adapt approaches to support the delivery of defined objectives and benefits.
- Strong risk management mindset, ability to pivot your approach and strategy with the changing needs of the client and/or our business and multi-task in a fast-paced deadline driven environment.
- Think 'Out of the Box' and can challenge the status quo with supporting analysis.
- Technical understanding and ability to allocate and manage IT resources effectively. Ensuring that project teams have the necessary skills and tools to complete their tasks.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
2) Business Expansion:
- Identify and communicate new business opportunities to internal stakeholders and contribute to proposals.
- Working with Business Development/Sales teams to accurately scope projects and prepare SOWs that are aligned with both client requirements and the services offered by Advisors Program Management; including the ability to frame the customer opportunity in financial terms i.e. value quantification, estimate effort and scope.
- Experience in leading or supporting Sales/Business Development Teams through client presentations.
- Analyze multiple aspects of client's organizational systems and culture that serve as input into the stakeholder/relationship map sales process.
- Effectively leverage subject matter experts to develop optimal customized solutions for clients.
All About You - Experience & Education
- 7+ years of experience in the financial services sector, with a proven track record of delivering successful projects. Exposure in payments and/or retail banking, cards and/or merchants preferred.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification. Advanced degree or MBA preferred.
- Professional accreditation in one or more recognized PM/PMO/Change/Service management methodology, such a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- Proven knowledge and experience in Agile and Waterfall project management including development methodologies, able to manage complex projects in the financial services industry.
- Experience in delivering full tech stack implementations at different technology tiers, channels, middleware, back-end, front end.
- Knowledge of data architecture, database management, and experienced with a wide array of data analytics tools and technologies will be advantageous.
- Proficiency in project management tools such as MS Project, Trello, Rally/JIRA.
- Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills.
- Willingness to travel.
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

Description
Embark on a Mission to Fortify Amazon's Defenses as a Senior Technical Program Manager with the Vulnerability Management & Remediation Operations team!
Amazon Security is seeking an experienced and innovative Senior Technical Program Manager specialising in cybersecurity to join our Vulnerability Management and Remediation Operations (VMRO) team in Sydney, Australia. The VMRO team is a global team that is responsible for assessing, detecting, and driving the remediation of vulnerabilities across the Amazon ecosystem. As a Senior Technical Program Manager you will have solid technical expertise in security operations and program management to join us in building and maturing our VMR Operations programs. In this role, you will be responsible for driving the strategic, technical, and engineering direction of VMR's Vulnerability, Campaign and Issue Operations Management Programs, which enables builders and drives remediation actions across Amazon. You will leverage relationships with engineers across Stores Security, business teams, and leaders throughout Amazon to prioritise deliverables, escalate roadblocks, and improve operational processes. You will build trust with Principal Engineers and Principal TPMs and executive leaders by leveraging your technical expertise to understand technical challenges, design improved solutions, and hold a high program bar. Finally, you will use your information security expertise to champion and drive risk-based decisions across complex, multi-disciplinary programs to ensure Amazon properly manages security risk.
If you're excited about the opportunity to make a significant impact on the security of one of the world's largest and most complex technology ecosystems from our Sydney office, we'd love to hear from you!
Key job responsibilities
- Support vulnerability host and OS detection campaigns by working closely with Campaign Owners to launch and continuously improve the quality of campaigns across Amazon.
- Assess and negotiate with customers to drive down security risk by engaging with teams to remediate critical security vulnerabilities in their environments.
- Leveraging your technical expertise to understand technical challenges, design improved solutions, and hold a high program bar responsible for program reporting and maintaining metrics and providing insights.
- Manage the operational health of the VMRO team by building and reporting SLA and KPI metrics to leadership and identifying improvements, and building programs to deliver these improvements.
- Work with internal stakeholders to improve campaign health and work with customers to drive remediation of security vulnerabilities across Amazon.
- Work closely with security engineers to maintain operational stability and inform priorities for innovative development efforts to drive high impact improvements to operational processes across Vulnerability Operations, Campaigns and Issue Health Management.
- Being part of a global operational team, this role also requires flexibility of schedule and the ability and willingness to work outside of normal daytime business hours.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity or related technical degree or equivalent; Masters degree; or 5+ years equivalent technology experience; or 5+ years of technical program management experience working directly with security and software engineering teams
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building knowledge and processes
- Experience defining operational KPI's/SLA's and reporting to senior leadership by building dashboards with business intelligence tools such as Amazon QuickSight, RedShift, etc
- Experience writing SQL queries and deep diving complex datasets
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in fields such a Security Operations, technology audit, or security vulnerability lifecycle
- High level communication and data presentation skills that allow you to clearly, compellingly, and effectively influence audiences internally and externally, across organizational boundaries
- Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design and providing customer requirements to engineering teams
- Experience building and operating Vulnerability Management, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, or other security programs with hundreds of stakeholders and executive leadership visibility
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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