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About Your Role: Ship Manager
We have an opportunity for a Ship Manager to join our Ship Repair team based in Garden Island Defence Precinct. You will join our Maintenance Services team, which provides Maintenance Management Services for the Royal Australian Navy.
You will oversee the Maintenance Management Services for the assigned Ship, ensuring that all Maintenance and incorporation of engineering changes is completed safely within the agreed schedule, cost and Commonwealth technical requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with customer representatives to ensure Maintenance Period Work Packages meet operational effectiveness and safety standards for upcoming ship tasks.
- Manage Ship Maintenance Planning, allocating resources effectively to meet schedule requirements.
- Develop detailed schedules for Ship Maintenance Work Orders and Maintenance Period Work Packages, addressing critical path activities and potential issues.
- Oversee Urgent Defect rectification, coordinating with customers to define task scope.
- Analyse and address variances in labour hours and material costs to achieve financial objectives.
- Formal qualification in Engineering, Project Management, relevant trade, or equivalent industry experience
- Proven track record of safety leadership in complex industrial settings
- Exposure to administration within engineering/manufacturing contexts
- Excellent communication and negotiation abilities with both internal and external stakeholders
- Experience in planning or executing production work packages
- Background in Ship Building/Ship Repair or comparable heavy engineering/civil engineering sectors
- Competitive remuneration + Super + Bonus + Free Medical Insurance.
- ThalesFlex – Hybrid work environment.
- Fitness Passport Discount – Access to a network of Gyms across AUS as cheap as $14.95 P/W.
- Employee discounts with a number of affiliates (Travel, Car hire, Tech, Medical Insurance).
- Modernised Paid Parental Leave.
- Veterans Leave.
- Novated Lease options.
- Family support through our partnership with Parents at Work.
- Personal & professional training development opportunities.
You’ll get an email acknowledgement after you’ve applied, Thales strives to provide a personalised experience for all suitable applicants.
As a Defence security clearance is required for this role, applicants must be Australian citizens and eligible to obtain and maintain an appropriate clearance. To learn more about clearances please visit –
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Thales is committed to promoting and maintaining a workplace culture of shared respect that enables all of us to feel valued, do our best, and remain truly passionate about the place that we work. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process and supportive workplace. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and individuals from diverse backgrounds.
We are also proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for Women. If you would like to know more on how we are supporting our employees, you can view our policies and initiatives here: .
Wellbeing matters at Thales, and where possible we encourage flexible working.
