Engineering Manager - Defence

An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced engineering leader to drive sustainment outcomes across a complex Defence capability program. Working within a highly technical environment, you will lead multidisciplinary engineering, technical and logistics teams responsible for maintaining the operational availability and performance of advanced combat systems.

This is a senior leadership position suited to someone who combines strong systems engineering expertise with program delivery, stakeholder management, and people leadership experience.

About the Role
As the Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading engineering sustainment activities across mission-critical Defence systems. You will work closely with customers, program teams, logistics specialists, and technical stakeholders to ensure ongoing capability availability, engineering compliance, and continuous improvement outcomes.
Key responsibilities include:

• Leading multidisciplinary engineering and sustainment teams
• Managing engineering support activities for complex combat and mission systems
• Delivering engineering change initiatives and in-service support programs
• Overseeing planned and corrective maintenance activities
• Managing technical investigations, risk, obsolescence and supportability issues
• Driving systems engineering governance, processes and technical compliance
• Managing budgets, forecasting and program performance
• Engaging with Defence and industry stakeholders to achieve successful sustainment outcomes
• Supporting long-term capability growth, reliability and availability objectives

About You
You are a proven engineering leader with experience delivering outcomes in complex Defence, maritime, aerospace, or mission-critical environments.
You will bring:

• Extensive experience in systems engineering and engineering management
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Strong background in sustainment, asset management, integrated logistics support or in-service support environments
• Demonstrated project or program management experience
• Ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships across industry and government
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and lifecycle management
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering or a related discipline

Highly regarded experience includes:

• Combat systems or military systems engineering
• Combat management systems, weapons, sensors, communications, navigation or electronic warfare systems
• Systems integration environments
• Defence maritime programs
• Technical regulatory and compliance frameworks

What's on Offer

• Leadership role within a nationally significant Defence program
• Opportunity to influence long-term sustainment and capability outcomes
• Work alongside highly regarded engineering professionals
• Diverse and complex technical challenges
• Flexible location options across Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne or Perth
• Career growth within a large and established Defence environment

Applicants must be Australian Citizens and be eligible to obtain and maintain a Defence security clearance (NV1 minimum).
  
If you are open to learning more, please reach out to Ben Stagg via [email protected] or [08 9429 5619](tel:08 9429 5619)