Senior Electrical

2 weeks ago

Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia Leidos Full time

Company Description

Gibbs & Cox Australia (GCA) provides world-leading naval and marine engineering expertise for Australia's maritime enterprise. Our vision is a vibrant, sustainable, sovereign Australian shipbuilding, design and maritime enterprise.

GCA is a subsidiary of Leidos Gibbs & Cox, an international leader in naval ship design, providing naval engineering and design services on a range of major combatant and surface autonomy programs. Gibbs & Cox has a proud history of excellence, serving naval, government, commercial, and private marine clients since 1929. GCA leverages support from Gibbs & Cox's international network of expertise to offer world's best practice in naval ship design and engineering.

In Australia, we operate a select, highly skilled, internationally diverse engineering team, providing engineering and design advisory services to Australia's naval programs, and maritime autonomy system development. Our team holds expertise across naval architecture, marine engineering, systems engineering, integrated logistics support, engineering consulting and acquisition program management.

Job Description

We are an innovative and experienced multi-disciplinary team, passionate about engineering in the maritime sector, and Australian sovereign capability. We offer a dynamic, flexible work environment. We value diversity and encourage applicants to bring their unique skills and capabilities to our growing team.

Our new opportunities are focussed on a new project delivering maritime autonomy technology and capabilities with tight timeframes and a dynamic engineering environment. We are seeking candidates who ideally can demonstrate a strong operational engineering skill set as well as a design background with a focus on design for manufacture. Creativity, flexibility and positivity through challenges are characteristics we are seeking in our team.

We are seeking an experienced electrical, mechatronic, or robotics engineer, who has proven their skills through multiple successful system delivery experiences, to join their next major challenge delivering marine autonomous systems.

The position will include the following responsibilities:

  • Design, integration, installation and acceptance of electrical and electro-mechanical systems, including sensors, control systems, generation, conversion, distribution, batteries, etc.
  • Develop and manage electrical power budgets, including definition of states and modes, load prioritisation, and other load management tools.
  • Development of system diagrams, schematics, calculations and production drawings for electrical and electro-mechanical systems
  • Collaborate with design and production partners in development of electrical systems to support vessel mission systems and payloads, and establishing the associated electrical and control interfaces
  • Assess suitability of electrical and electro-mechanical system characteristics, including safety, performance, cost, etc., and contribute to system sizing, specification and procurement of vessel equipment and system components
  • Develop cable harness designs and cable schedule production data
  • Define and participate in commissioning and testing activities to establish, verify and evaluate system performance
  • Promote a culture and practice of electrical safety in design and test
  • Share experiences / lessons with project team personnel to advance engineering knowledge and skills within the project's technical team
  • Participate in project and technical risk management processes (including Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment) and contribute to safety program development

Qualifications

This is a creative, fast-paced project which requires the right mindset. We are seeking candidates with the following attributes:

Critical Attributes

  • Delivery Experience – demonstrated responsibility for designing, integrating and successfully delivering electrical, electro-mechanical, and control systems
  • Degree-qualified Electrical, Mechatronics, or Robotics engineer
  • A demonstrated practical, hands-on approach to system integration and set-to-work throughout the development and test phases
  • Collaborative – able to quickly establish productive and positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders who have different approaches, interests and styles
  • Strong communicator – ability to engage with stakeholders and explain complex issues concisely. Clear and accurate writer
  • Accountable – keeps commitments, adapts to challenges to maintain progress, openly addresses errors and shortfalls
  • Positive Outlook – A positive, solution-orientated attitude, supportive of other team members and stakeholders, criticism is constructive and builds the work and the team forward

Desirable Attributes

  • Experience with electrical and electro-mechanical systems in a marine environment. Any of the following experience is relevant: uncrewed and autonomous marine systems, deployable launch and recovery systems, diesel generators, marine electrical systems, low voltage DC power systems, DC converters, batteries and associated management systems and chargers, actuation, servo drives, DC electric motors and gearboxes, NMEA2000 networks, J1939 CANBUS networks, ethernet networks, marine radars, marine radios.
  • Experience in waterfront engineering, commissioning or set-to-work in a marine vessel new build or sustainment context is a major advantage
  • Adaptability – Able to adapt to evolving requirements and changing operational conditions in a dynamic program environment
  • An ability to rapidly assimilate information and describe viable concepts for solutions
  • Clear understanding of systems engineering process – from requirements analysis, specification writing, through to system and sub-system level design/interface description
  • Professional Engineering credentials, for example, Member of Engineers Australia, Chartered Engineer

Additional Information

Location: we operate a nationally-distributed team. The project is centred around our Newcastle, Canberra and East Melbourne teams / locations. All east-coast mainland locations will be considered, but a moderate amount of domestic travel should be expected as part of the role.

Employment type: Permanent full time, with flexible work arrangements available.

We offer a broad range of employment benefits and flexibility provisions. Please see for an overview.

The successful applicant will be required to hold a valid NV1 security clearance or have the ability to obtain and maintain a valid security clearance as well as other mandatory background checks including a National Police check.

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