PROGRAM

Defence Land Workforce Insights

Date:

Thursday 12 September

Time:

1300 – 1400

Registration:

Land Forces 2024 Registration is now closed.

If you are already registered, you can Amend Your Registration to include this session.

This event is open to all Land Forces trade visitors, exhibitors and conference delegates.

NOTE: While attendance to this session is free for all participants, entry is not guaranteed. Seating will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis, and once the venue reaches its maximum capacity, access will be closed.

Location:

The Land Forces 2024 Theatrette, (Stand J231) Exhibition Ground Level, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre

The Government is investing $330 billion through to 2033-34 on Defence capabilities, meaning that there will be a huge need for highly skilled workers. The Kinexus Defence Industry Hiring Intentions report, released in June 2023, showed that defence industry was poised to add a further 4,500 new positions by 2025. Constrained access to workers contributed to project delays in the late 2000s, and if Government investment is not carefully managed now, may do so again.

Kinexus released its Defence Workforce Insights report in March 2024, containing comprehensive data on factors that will affect employer’s ability to attract and retain workforces. The presentation will review the following topics, with a focus on Land Domain projects and workforce, and consider the effects, challenges and opportunities presented by AUKUS and the Defence Strategic Review. Project Environment

The current defence sector project environment along with analysis on the impact of adjacent industry activity.

Worker Demand

Predicted hiring activity in the defence sector in the next 18 months. Broken down by state.
Most in-demand land related skills sets.

Salaries & Expectations

2024 salary report data by skill sets and locations.
Factors that will enhance organisations’ ability to attract and retain essential talent
Key contracting trends

Supply solutions

How to make the most efficient use of existing workers. •
How to grow the pool of potential workers, including existing, planned and possible initiatives.

SPEAKERS

Rob Kremer

Kinexus
Director & Defence Sector Lead

Rob is an Executive Director with over 30 years of experience in the defence sector. His unique background includes nine years as an Officer in the Royal Australian Navy and 20 years as a specialist defence sector workforce recruiter and advisor.

Rob regularly speaks at industry events, including IndoPacific, Land Forces, Avalon Airshow and MilCIS, and provides market briefings to AIDN and DTC members and senior Defence officers. Rob manages the delivery of large recruitment projects and recruitment outsource solutions, as well as Kinexus’ defence market data products and services. Rob dedicates his non-work time to his family and his role as a leader in Scouts NSW.

Hosted by Kinexus

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