National Engineering Manager

• Lead engineering excellence across Defence Maritime Systems
• Based in Sydney CBD with travel to other locations/vessels
• Supporting high-profile Defence and Maritime contracts
• Veterans encouraged to apply

Serco is a place where you can grow

Join a team of 12,000+ professionals across Asia Pacific (APAC) and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

• Flexible working arrangements and remote work opportunities
• Career development and progression across diverse projects
• Access to our employee assistance and wellbeing programs
• Inclusion in employee-led diversity networks
• Long-term, secure contracts with the Australian Government
• Supportive leadership and a collaborative work culture

Make an impact at Serco

As our National Engineering Manager – Maritime, you'll provide strategic oversight of Engineering Services across our Defence Maritime and Training Systems portfolio. You'll be responsible for improving the performance, compliance, and availability of critical Defence systems, while ensuring alignment with the Navy Technical Regulatory Framework.

This is a senior leadership position, guiding and influencing engineering teams across our Defence and Maritime contracts, with engineers working in partnership with Contract Managers who hold the direct reporting lines. Working alongside the Contract Managers and engineering teams, you'll consolidate technical data, manage configuration and maintenance strategies, and drive continuous improvement in system sustainment.

As a National Engineering Manager – Maritime in the Defence team, you'll make a positive impact by:

• Providing national engineering oversight across diverse Defence contracts
• Ensuring compliance with Navy Technical Regulatory Frameworks
• Managing configuration, obsolescence, and maintenance systems
• Conducting technical analysis and risk assessments for engineering decisions
• Supporting engineering investigations and change management with OEMs
• Mentoring and influencing technical teams, reviewing engineering artefacts and task completion

Serco is a place for you

To be successful in this role you'll have:

• Over 5 years of maintenance management experience in a naval defence setting
• Strong knowledge of naval engineering and Defence sustainment practices
• Proficiency in interpreting and acting on complex technical data
• Excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills
• Familiarity with the Royal Australian Navy Technical Regulatory Framework
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, including Visio and Project
• Australian Citizen in order to achieve and maintain a defence security clearance of NV1
• A commitment to upholding the highest standards of trust and responsibility

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?

At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world's most urgent and complex challenges.

We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in Health, Defence, Maritime, Justice, Immigration, and Community Services.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQI+, veterans and people with disability.

By joining Serco you'll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Impact a better future at Serco.