Program Engineering Manager

**Program Engineering Manager**:

- Location: Keswick, SA, AU, 5035
- Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite
- **Career development opportunities**:

- **Competitive rewards and benefits**:

- **Flexible working options**

**About the role**

As the Program Engineering Manager for Babcock’s JP9101 projects, you will provide strategic leadership and day-to-day management of multidisciplinary engineering teams.

You’ll be responsible for the delivery of complex engineering activities across the Mission System, Support System, and Legacy Software, ensuring that all deliverables meet strict technical, time, cost, and quality requirements.

Your role will be instrumental in aligning engineering resources, tools, and processes in accordance with Babcock’s rigorous policies to deliver technical outcomes that support national defence capability. This role also plays a critical part in fostering collaboration across JP9101 contracts to successfully deliver DHFCS+ and EDHFCS capabilities.

You will drive technical excellence across the lifecycle—leading investigations, making complex engineering decisions, managing technical risks, and ensuring the production and maintenance of robust technical documentation.

**About you**

You are a seasoned engineering professional with a strong background in managing complex, high-stakes programs within the defence or mission-critical systems domain. Your experience has honed your ability to lead technical teams, balance competing priorities, and make informed decisions throughout the engineering lifecycle.

You’re confident in your ability to communicate technical information clearly to a variety of stakeholders and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where accuracy, safety, and compliance are paramount.

Your leadership style promotes capability growth, knowledge sharing, and talent development. You’re passionate about mentoring team members, driving process improvements, and building sustainable engineering practices.

With an excellent understanding of design, integration, and support techniques—and a keen awareness of emerging technologies—you’re ready to deliver innovative solutions that not only meet the needs of the JP9101 program, but also contribute to the broader goals of Babcock and the communities we serve.
- To be successful in this position you will bring:_
- Extensive experience in relatable technical/engineering roles.
- Proven experience in managing applicable engineering function and/or technical delivery.
- An in-depth understanding of applicable engineering toolsets (e.g. PLM or MRP systems, design, simulation and analysis software).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong computer skills.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team to achieve desired results.

**Your future at Babcock - what we offer you**
- We provide an agile work environment where you’re able to work onsite and remotely, and to set you up for this we provide a laptop and working from home kit if required, in addition we offer compressed hours which can provide you even more flexibility;
- Our work life integration policy brings together leave entitlements which include annual leave, wellbeing leave, volunteer leave, paid parental leave, defence reservist leave plus more;
- We will provide you with a supportive and engaging environment where you can grow your career, supported by our capability framework plus ongoing access to self-led learning modules through LinkedIn Learning and access to study leave;
- You’ll have access to beRewarded which will provide you with endless discounts across retail, health, entertainment, travel and much more, plus novated leasing options and corporate shares plan;
- Your wellbeing is supported through our online wellbeing program Munch, Mind, Move, Money, access to our employee assistance program plus wellbeing leave;
- You’ll be able to participate in our weRecognise program which is an opportunity to recognise the outstanding work our people do each and every day in living our principles which are Be kind, Collaborate, Be Curious, Think Outcomes, Be Courageous and Own & Deliver.

**Who we are**

Babcock International Group, the aerospace and defence company, has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly skilled engineering services for over a century.

Across Australia and New Zealand, Babcock has grown to a team of over 1,700 talented people, and we are on a path of continued growth and expansion.

We operate across sectors such as defence, commercial marine, aviation, airports, communications, emergency services and engineering consultancy.

Some of the programs our team across Australia and New Zealand are proud to be a part of involve:

- Providing emergency medical and search & rescue aviation services through our Aviation & Critical Services business;
- Designing and supporting key systems for submarines and surface ships through our Marine business;
- Providing fleet wide through life support and asset management services f