Principal Project Officer Operations

Find Purpose You Feel, Impact You See And a Legacy You Bring To Life. #DAFcareers As Our Principal Project Officer Within Our Operations Division, You Will

• Review Program operational processes to identify opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Lead and coordinate quality, efficiency projects and activities to improve productivity through continuous best practice and improvement.
  
  
  

Just imagine what you could achieve with us.

The opportunity as our Principal Project Officer within our Operations Division, you will:

• Review Program operational processes to identify opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Lead and coordinate quality, efficiency projects and activities to improve productivity through continuous best practice and improvement.
• Gather required information using system metrics, internal audit results and infield knowledge to draft a comprehensive plan to improve efficiencies and cost- effectiveness in Program operations.
• Work with relevant stakeholders to establish benchmarks and measurement tools to assess the impact of efficiency measures implemented. This may require review of current analytical tools that accurately validate rates of work effort and deliverables against agreed outcome targets and provide regular efficiency reports showing progress against those targets to stakeholder groups.
• Compile data from business systems and in-field assessments and undertaking analysis to inform managers' deliberations about business performance metrics and possibilities for improvement.
• Design and preparation of efficiency reports, submissions, briefing notes, presentations and recommendations about improvements to current business
  
  
  

systems and processes with particular emphasis on maximising the utility of existing systems.

• Alert managers, colleagues and other relevant stakeholders about flow-on impacts and implications of operational activities on other areas of the business including obstacles and opportunities for improvement.
• Support operational managers and other business stakeholders to ensure process changes are negotiated and managed to deliver improvements.
• Contribute to the development and communication of strategies, policies, procedures and plans to promote best practice in business processes to support efficiency at all levels of the business enterprise.
• Support West operations with strategic forward planning and contribute to operational strategy and other work duties and tasks as instructed by the Manager Operations (West).
  
  
  

You may also have

• An understanding of biosecurity or emergency response activities and/or experience in applying your capabilities in a response environment will be highly regarded.
  
  
  

Licences and registrations

• Current ‘C' class drivers' licence - no restrictions
  
  
  

Why join the department? (benefits)

The work we do is widespread and varied, but our people are united by an innate sense of purpose, and a passion to serve their fellow Queenslanders. Our people are talented, down-to-earth and resilient, and the work they do every day fills them with gratification and pride. This is what keeps them coming back.

Here are some other reasons why our people choose us:

• Have visible impact in your community, and directly contribute to making Queensland a better place to live.
• Flexible working options that encourage a healthy work-life balance.
• Salary sacrificing options and competitive superannuation.
• A variety of fantastic leave benefits, supported across the broader Queensland public sector.
• Access to confidential and free counselling for you and your immediate family members through our Employee Assistance Program.
• We are committed to preventing violence against women and are proud to be a White Ribbon accredited workplace.
  
  
  

Join us and help preserve and protect Queensland's biosecurity.

Applications will remain current for 12 months.

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