El 1 - Specialty Engineering Manager

$108,195 - $122,044 (plus Super)
- Brindabella Park - ACT

**The Role**
The Program Specialty Engineering Manager will operate in a pivotal role within the ADS Branch engineering team. He/she will be responsible for the will be responsible for the provision of consistent engineering guidance and oversight across the ADS Branch projects in relation to Verification and Validation, System Safety management and Human-Systems integration. The Program Specialty Engineering Manager will be expected to conduct a wide range of engineering assurance and oversight activities. In particular, he/she will:

- Lead the Specialty Engineering team responsible for the planning of and provision of expert advice on engineering governance and assurance applied to Verification and Validation, System Safety management and Human-Systems integration.
- Provide oversight of Engineering & Technical (E&T) policy compliance to ensure project-engineering governance is fit for purpose and comply with the applicable Program governance and assurance requirements.
- Work closely with Project Engineering Managers to ensure the capability and contractual requirements developed by projects related to the areas of responsibility are accurate and complete.
- Develop or conduct review and assessment of plans, reports, procedures and/or artefacts related to the areas of responsibility as directed by the Chief Engineer.
- Manage and facilitate relationships and effective communications with the Project Engineering Managers, other Program Engineering leads and external stakeholders.

**About our Team**
Defence has commenced work on one of the most complex and challenging programs in ADF history, one that seeks to transform the ADF’s IAMD capability into a fully networked, fifth-generation force better able to protect its airspace and vital assets from increasingly complex and lethal air and missile threats.

This program seeks to deliver the Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) capability to enable a Joint Force that is better able to operate independently and co-operatively with our like-minded Allies and Coalition Partners. The IAMD Program will interconnect the many systems and sensors across multiple domains (air, land, sea, and space), current and future, into a collaborative engagement network.

CASG will deliver four projects as part of the IAMD program:

- AIR6500 PH1 (Joint Air Battle Management System),
- AIR6502 PH1 (Medium Range Ground-Based Air Defence)
- AIR6503 PH1 (Advanced and Very High Speed Missile Defence) and AIR7004 PH1 (Theatre Air Control System).

Many aspects of the IAMD program are developmental in nature with no relevant global exemplars, and will place Australia at the very forefront of technological achievement. The program seeks talented and committed individuals from numerous and different disciplines and professional streams, to play their part in this nationally significant and strategically critical undertaking. As the program and sovereign IAMD capability grows, so too will opportunities for career diversification.
- Skills and minimum 8 years’ experience in systems engineering applied to a Defence project and ideally 5 years’ experience in engineering management.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications (Bachelors and above).
- Demonstrated ability to manage a diverse team on complex project or program.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- High-level organisational skills, self-driven and initiative with the ability to influence and shape others’ behaviours to achieve tasks and organisation’s objectives.
- Superior risk analysis and deductive reasoning skills to support effective decision making.
- Demonstrate leadership in accordance with One Defence leadership behaviours and Defence values.