Job Description
A high-impact V&V and Hardware Engineering Manager is required to lead complex defence programs within a global Aerospace and Defence technology company. As an expert in driving end-to-end Verification & Validation strategies, hardware development, and system integration in highly regulated environments, you will be responsible for leading multidisciplinary teams, ensuring product excellence, and meeting stringent quality, safety, and compliance standards.
Key Responsibilities:
* Team Leadership: Model leadership behaviours to grow and develop team members, supporting their career development as they work to meet project and customer requirements aligned with our company values.
* Subject Matter Expert: Apply verification and validation, and hardware engineering expertise to deliver timely project outcomes, delivering superior quality of technical documentation to produce clear and concise content to meet required engineering and client standards.
* Resource Management: Regularly review capabilities, performance, capacity, process, and system requirements against current and future needs, to identify and address gaps in conjunction with the management of the departmental budget.
* Innovation: Lead and champion the development of new engineering practices, plans, techniques, and technologies, systems, and processes to deliver continuous improvement.
* Stakeholder Engagement: Work collaboratively and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders to influence and ensure that programs are delivered on time and in full. Plan and deliver associated products and services to meet assigned objectives.
* Exemplify Leadership: By example, as a technical contributor, produces engineering work of a high standard to meet project parameters; in a professional and collaborative manner.
Experience and Qualifications:
1. Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Science degree or relevant applicable degree.
* Prior technical leadership of engineering projects that involve product development across the broad spectrum of complex systems, including full system integration.
* Proven ability and experience representing the company as a technical expert across all stakeholder environments, including formal and informal presentations at both frontline and senior executive levels.
* Proven background and experience mentoring, supporting, and leading a team; making programmatic and technical decisions with accuracy and within set timeframes.
Desirable:
* Experience and knowledge of command, control, and communications systems in a Defence environment. Experience involving tactical data links will be highly regarded.
* An experienced systems engineer, with proven background involving the entirety of systems development processes, including requirements capture, design, decomposition, integration, and verification/validation, as well as transition to production.
* Experience in hardware design leadership, and verification and validation during product development in an Australian Defence environment, including familiarity with AUSDEFCON requirements.
* Familiarity with engineering development in an agile and DEVSECOPS environment.