Visual Observer

**Description**
- Job satisfaction - come home each day knowing your role could have helped save lives
- Access career development and training with world class training programs.
- We’re a ‘Family Friendly’ certified workplace - we understand the diverse roles our team members need to play within their own unique family setting and actively support them.

**Do Work That Matters**

At Leidos Airborne Solutions Australia, we do more than fly, we safeguard borders and save lives. As a trusted partner to the Australian Government, we lead critical airborne special missions, from border surveillance to life-saving search-and-rescue operations, covering over 10% of the Earth’s surface. In addition to our aviation bases across Australia and the Indian Ocean Territories, we operate a 24/7 Operations Centre, Systems Integration Lab and Mission Equipment Service Centre to ensure mission success. We collaborate with local SMEs to prototype and test advanced mission management systems, integrating cutting-edge ISR technology.

Join our team and be part of a mission-driven organisation protecting national interests, saving lives, and working with industry-leading technology and expertise.

**Your New Role and Responsibilities**
Support life-saving search and rescue missions as a key member of a skilled aircrew. Operate from modified aircraft, using keen observation and teamwork to help locate persons or vessels in distress. Play a vital role in high-impact, humanitarian operations.
- Spot and identify people, vessels, or objects visually
- Communicate findings clearly to pilots and crew
- Operate and monitor mission-specific equipment
- Maintain detailed records during and after missions
- Work closely with aircrew in dynamic, high-pressure scenarios

**What You’ll Bring to Make An Impact**
- Acceptable level of health and fitness in accordance with the pre-employment medical and Civil Aviation Safety Authority medical standards
- Nationally accredited Provide First Aid Qualification
- Able to obtain a clear National Police Check

**Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose**

Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase - Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.

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**- Recruitment process - 1 phone screen, an hour long behavioural based interview via Teams (online) & background checks including a police check and pre-employment medical.
- 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.Come break things (in a good way). Then build them smarter.

We're the tech company everyone calls when things get weird. We don’t wear capes (they’re a safety hazard), but we do solve high-stakes problems with code, caffeine, and a healthy disregard for “how it’s always been done.”

**Original Posting**:
**Pay Range**:
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.