Qantas
Project Manager - Continuous Improvement
QantasAustralia7 hours ago
Full-timeProject Management
Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.

Qualifications

  • Lead the Continuous Improvement portfolio for Brisbane Base Maintenance
  • Challenge yourself to deliver impactful change across Engineering operations
  • Together we’ll optimise performance and enhance safety, quality, and efficiency
  • Permanent full-time opportunity based at our Brisbane Base Maintenance Hangar

At Qantas, we’re known for doing the impossible. We bring teams together to deliver exceptional outcomes for our people and our customers. As part of our Engineering division, you’ll be at the heart of operational excellence, helping shape the future of aircraft maintenance through innovation and continuous improvement.

As Project Manager, Continuous Improvement, you’ll lead Brisbane Base Maintenance’s CI portfolio, delivering key improvement programs and partnering with business leaders to drive improvement initiatives and outcomes. You’ll work closely with subject matter experts across Qantas Engineering and leverage Group CI tools and frameworks to optimise business readiness and performance.

This role is pivotal in identifying and implementing initiatives that improve safety, quality, cost-efficiency, and operational effectiveness. You’ll also lead change management strategies, stakeholder engagement, and project communications to ensure successful adoption and long-term impact.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

  • Leading CI initiatives and ensuring they are resourced, cost-managed, and delivered to meet business needs
  • Collaborating with internal stakeholders to ensure project success and regulatory compliance
  • Deploying Group CI tools and processes to champion process excellence
  • Driving change management interventions that minimise operational impact and realise program objectives
  • Managing project communications and stakeholder engagement to build trust and support
  • Ensuring compliance with Group Management Systems, safety protocols, and reporting requirements

What You’ll Bring

  • Experience in a continuous improvement or project environment delivering effective operational change.
  • Strong knowledge of project and change management frameworks
  • Tertiary qualifications in Business management or Project management highly regarded.
  • Exceptional stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills
  • Strong analytical capability and data-driven decision-making
  • Ability to manage competing priorities across safety, quality, IR, finance, and operations
  • Experience in a regulated, complex environment such as aviation or engineering is advantageous

Why Qantas?

If you’re successful in your application, you’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.

There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time.

You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.

  • We love to travel: Enjoy discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays
  • We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and additional purchased leave options.
  • We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment
  • We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether its salary packaging for motor vehicles or electronic devices, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace.

Be a part of something special and play your part in the Qantas story – get in touch today.

Applications Close: Friday, 14th of November 2025
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