Team Lead

QinetiQ employs more than 6000 people in 51 locations around the world, offering our customers premier expertise in advice, services and creative technology-based products.

QinetiQ Australia, part of the global QinetiQ group, provides technological and scientific expertise to help customers protect and advance their vital interests. As an innovative science and technology company, we help solve some of our customers' most challenging problems. Our determination to deliver and improve today and anticipate and shape tomorrow, makes QinetiQ a very exciting, rewarding and respected place to work and learn.

We are currently looking for a Team Lead to join QinetiQ’s leading Structural Integrity business based in South Melbourne Victoria.

The Team Lead - Structural Integrity will provide leadership to a team of engineers completing complex engineering tasks for numerous stakeholders. The Team Lead will be responsible for the performance management and personnel requirements as well as the successful running of the business unit, whilst generating and maintaining a safe work environment with high employee engagement.

As Team Lead - Structural Integrity your responsibilities will include:
Managing of a team of engineers within a Program area of the business.
Scoping and managing the execution and delivery of complex engineering services to varying customers, enhancing QinetiQ’s reputation as a trusted provider and partner, and which deliver to QinetiQ the agreed/anticipated returns.
Serves as a primary point of contact and client interface for the assigned tasks for their team, developing strong customer relationships and managing client expectations.
Ensures administrative management deliverables are met, including: invoice requests, data reporting, financial and resource projections.
Ensures optimal utilisation of human, physical and financial resources allocated to assigned tasks; decisions are guided by resource availability and/or functional objectives.
Ensures standardisation and continuous improvement of relevant processes.
Compliance with legislative, regulatory, QinetiQ Quality Management Systems, Employee Safety requirements.
Ensures management, communication and leadership practices in the team generates a high level of employee engagement, a high performance culture and aligns with QinetiQ staff competency requirements.

To be successful in the role of Team Lead - Structural Integrity, you will need to bring with you:
First degree or an equivalent, nationally recognised professional qualification in a relevant discipline to the program area with further substantial on the job experience and backed up with a tangible track record of achievement.
Under certain circumstances, another appropriate qualification with a significant depth of experience may be acceptable in lieu of a degree.
Excellent PM and organisational skills in planning, managing and coordinating.
Experience working within an engineering management system.
A highly analytical and solution focused approach with exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to solicit, support and coordinate efforts of a diverse team of professional experts.
Advanced professional writing capabilities to develop or improve documents and ensure understandable and useful information.

Structural Integrity Group

QinetiQ’s Structural Integrity group provides trusted, independent airworthiness advice and specialist structural integrity engineering services to Military customers, with a strong focus on the Air Domain. Our team of highly qualified and experienced engineers offer a full range of structural integrity engineering services including design, loads and stress analysis, fatigue and damage tolerance analysis, vibration and aero elasticity assessment, numerical modelling, data management and analysis, risk analysis, software development, certification basis assessment and development of Instructions for Continued Airworthiness.

Life at QinetiQ

Our people and our culture make QinetiQ a great place to work, we value integrity, collaboration and performance.

QinetiQ is a Workplace Gender Equality Agency Employer of Choice, Work180 Endorsed Employer for Women and past winner of the Defence Teaming Centre Employer of Choice Awards.

We look after our people are committed to attracting and retaining the best talent in the market. We celebrate our differences and incorporate diversity and inclusion into everything we do. Our salary and benefits package is designed to make sure we support our diverse group of employees through the different stages of their life and careers.

**Some of our benefits include**:
Annual professional development allocation and study leave

Flexible working options that suit you

Leave purchase scheme to balance what’s important to you

Loyalty leave, earn extra days of annual leave up to an additional 10 days per year

Performance bonus awards for individual and company success

Salary continuance Insurance, protecting you financ