(10/10/2025) Senior Configuration Manager

Description

Leidos 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.

Your New Role and Responsibilities

As a Configuration Manager you will be responsible for technical assurance processes, and provide strong stakeholder engagement skills to ensure alignment and delivery of critical outcomes.

- Perform complex technical configuration activities and associated tasks working to agreed priorities and outcomes
- Provide advice on, develop and implement data and configuration management processes
- Prepare data and configuration management plans
- Develop and maintain databases (such as CMT-U and AMPs)
- Access technical packages including scoping, planning and reviewing of packages and provide recommendations for consideration

What You’ll Bring to Make An Impact

- Strong stakeholder engagement and communications skills
- Strong experience in configuration management within Defence, government, or professional services with a strong track record in managing configuration processes
- In-depth understanding of Defence operations and processes, especially maritime systems and programs
- Experience with the Defence Service Management System, including its use in configuration management

Don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes – if you meet most of them, we encourage you to submit your application. We’re most interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go.

This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and to be willing to obtain and hold a NV-1 or greater security clearance.

Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.

Next Steps

- To apply for this role, follow the links or apply via our Careers page.

Recruitment process - 1–2 interviews and background checks including a police check. Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1. If you’d like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process, please contact our Careers team at careers.au@au.leidos.com.

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