EL 1 - (S&T 5) - Senior Electronics Technician

• $111,441 - $125,705 (plus Super)
• Brisbane Airport - QLD

The Role
DST Group has a Senior Electronics Technician position available within Research Engineering (RE), an advanced engineering branch of Research Technology & Operations (RTO) Division that is responsible for the development of engineering solutions in support of Defence Research.
Reporting to the Discipline Leader Hypersonics Engineering and operating from DST Group’s Eagle Farm site, the Senior Electronics Technician is accountable under limited direction to undertake moderate to highly complex electronic manufacturing tasks within a research and development setting, and perform a Work Area Lead function for a small yet modern and well-equipped Electronics Workshop. Tasks include practical electronics assembly work and as well administrative duties in relation the workshop management and compliance – a strong technical knowledge of electronics engineering and practical electronic hand skills is required, coupled with sound organisational and management skills.
The role will involve operation of a variety of specialist low-volume electronics assembly equipment, along with day-to-day management of the workshop, including planning work package execution, assuring compliance, and maintaining capability. Recognition of the impact of a chosen technique or approach to the achievement of task outcomes, along with an ability to investigate and recommend alternative courses of action is also a characteristic of the role.
Position Duties:
1. Under limited guidance:
a. Perform moderate to highly complex component-level assembly, repair, modification and upgrade tasks on electronic systems using a range of specialist tools and equipment.
b. Interpret and prepare electronic assembly and maintenance documents using relevant software packages when required.
c. Perform duties as the Electronics Workshop Lead in relation to timely work package execution, assuring quality and WHS compliance, maintaining/developing capability, and operator training.
d. Evaluate and recommend appropriate electronics manufacturing/fabrication techniques and methods to achieve outcomes.
e. Exercise sound judgement and a high level of stakeholder engagement in relation to the operation of the Electronics Workshop, offering high-level technical and administrative advice. 2. Build and sustain effective relationships with stakeholders and actively participate in team work and group activities.
3. Implement scientific and engineering methodologies to solve problems of considerable complexity.
4. Ensure and maintain technical, scientific, engineering, and quality standards through the application of established principles.
5. Deliver high quality scientific and engineering reports including briefs and presentations.
About our Team
Research Technology and Operations Division (RTO) delivers specialist capabilities to Defence Innovation Science and Technology (IS&T).
RTO comprises a professional workforce of engineers, technicians, computational scientists and other staff who provide a wide range of highly specialised and unique research capability and innovative solutions delivering advanced research platforms for defence, national security and the wider IS&T ecosystem.
RTO capabilities accelerate and protect Defence's science and technology advances and promote a collaborative, compliant, safe and healthy workplace. RTO's work areas include:

• Emerging digital science capabilities, including computational and data intensive science, research data and information and laboratory and experimental systems
• Scientific computing including the development and acquisition of a world-class secure High Performance Computing (HPC) capability for advance modelling and simulation
• Nationally recognised, unique and novel research engineering capabilities
• Development and implementation of the Outstanding Research Infrastructure Powering Innovation pillar, a major component of the More Together: Defence Science and Technology Strategy 2030
• Defence innovation, science and technology compliance, assurance and sovereignty through complex research safety, research security, workforce capability and talent and scientific resource management
• RTO also provides specialised research enabling capabilities to other groups and services with Defence, the Australian Intelligence community, our allies and/or our partners in industry and academia.

RE provide professional and advanced manufacturing to Defence to enable delivery of products, prototypes and models for research, development and experimentation. RE fuses talented professional engineering and technical staff with world’s best design software and cutting edge fabrication capabilities.
Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for an individual who is genuinely interested in the opportunity provided; applying their significant expertise and practical know-how in the electronic domain to our exciting and challenging research program. They will have an interest in producing high quality work, and seek to continually improve and broaden their skills whilst providing a tangible contribution to the program.
Our ideal candidates will be willing to work within an integrated and multi-disciplinary team, and will be adaptable to changing requirements that occur within a research environment. They will have good communication skills, both written and verbal, and be capable of communicating complex technical information succinctly.