Satcom Engineering Manager

**Title**:
SATCOM Engineering Manager

**Your KBR future - delivering solutions and changing the world**

**About KBR**:
**We are a company of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, volunteers and dreamers who all share one goal — to improve the world.**

KBR delivers science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 34,000 people performing diverse, complex, and mission-critical roles in 33 countries.

For 65 years, KBR and its heritage companies are proud to have delivered some of Australia’s largest and most complex projects.

With around 2,000 employees in 6 primary offices throughout Australia, we are committed to social and environmental sustainability and delivering projects with a digital mindset driving innovation within our business and for our customers.

We help ensure mission success on land, in the air, at sea, in space and cyberspace for our defence customers. From individual technologies and services to comprehensive project delivery and mission execution, no other company can match the breadth and depth of KBR.

KBR comprises a diverse team who provide a broad spectrum of capabilities across Australia and the Asia Pacific. Our proven project teams readily address complex and multi-disciplinary activities, providing low-risk and cost-effective solutions to the defence force.

Learn more about our business here.

**The Opportunity**:
The SATCOM Engineering Manager will directly and in-directly manage discipline grouped teams (including software, systems engineering and IT infrastructure) to deliver capability outcomes to customers to achieve business outcomes. Direct customer liaison will also be required.

The SATCOM Engineering Manager will directly report to the Chief Technology Officer on technical capability delivery (including performance metrics) and be responsive to Project Managers for technical solution delivery to customers.

**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.
- 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.

**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

**What we will offer you**:

- A workplace culture certified as a Great Place To Work
- Flexible working
- Competitive salary (including annual reviews)
- Paid parental leave
- Income protection
- Corporate rewards
- Salary packaging/Novated leasing
- Employee stock purchase plans
- Flu shots, skin checks and discounted private health insurance
- KBR acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connections to land, sea, community and culture. We pay our respects to Elders past and present._
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