AddressAs the SATCOM Engineering Manager, you'll be at the forefront of technical leadership and direction, ensuring the seamless delivery of SATCOM capabilities to our Defence clients' valued customers. Your role encompasses managing resources effectively to achieve quality outcomes within allocated budgets, timelines, and project scopes. You'll oversee and guide multidisciplinary teams, including software, systems engineering, and IT infrastructure specialists, to deliver innovative solutions that meet both technical requirements and business objectives.
Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer, you'll play a pivotal role in driving technical excellence, providing regular updates on performance metrics, and collaborating closely with Project Managers to ensure successful technical solution delivery. Your responsibilities will span from providing strategic leadership to the SATCOM technical teams to overseeing the implementation of engineering management processes and procedures.
Responsibilities
The key responsibilities of the role will include, but is not limited to:
• Providing leadership and technical management direction to the SATCOM technical teams and more broadly across the organisation.
• Responsible for the delivery of technical solutions and services in accordance with contracted Statements of Work.
• Management direction for the application of system engineering practices and processes and to deliver complex IT capabilities to customers and other business outcomes.
• Delivery of quality outcomes to customers to schedule, within budget and to agreed scope.
• Development and implementation of engineering management processes and procedures.
• Management of product configuration baselines in accordance with configuration management standards and processes.
• Technical assurance of product solutions and services.
• Management of development and delivery of Integrated Logistics Support plans, products and services.
• Engineering lead for engineering design reviews and project management reviews.
• Defining and assessing technical competencies and assigning technical authority to personnel.
• Proving technical input into contractual requirements and scope of work.
• Management of development and delivery of engineering and other assigned technical contract deliverables.
• Oversight of professional development of engineering and technical personnel.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Essential:
• Minimum 15 years' experience
• Proven leadership and management of large multi-disciplined technical project teams
• Proven experience in using Systems Engineering and Agile approaches to deliver complex Information Technology capabilities
• Software and/or Information Technology practical knowledge and experience
• Undergraduate four-year degree in a relevant engineering discipline
• Holds an Australian government NV1 security clearance
• Eligible to access ITAR controlled technology
Desirable:
• Chartered Professional Engineering status or eligibility
• Registered professional engineer in an Australian jurisdiction
• Satellite Communication knowledge and experience
• Experience with delivering programs with an ASDEFCON framework
As our client is a Major Service Provider to the Australian Defence Force, an AGSVA security clearance will be required and compliance to International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR).
