ATRP Project Engineer

Be part of a rapidly growing team driving the future of aviation technology. Your expertise will power nationally significant projects, global collaboration, and real career growth.

Salary based on experience starting from 105,000 – 136, % Super

Location – Melbourne or Brisbane with WFH options.

The Organisation

Airservices Australia is a government-owned organisation responsible for the safe and efficient management of 11% of the world's airspace and provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia's busiest airports.

Our people are our greatest asset with a dynamic and diverse team operating from locations across the country - from bustling cities to regional and remote locations, including an island. This team keep are helping to secure the future of Australia's skies and keep it amongst the safest in the world.

Airservices is committed to fostering a culture that is diverse, inclusive, and respectful. We encourage motivated individuals who love what they do, value a service first mindset and embrace a challenge to explore a career with Airservices. In return you will be a valued team member, be offered flexibility and experience a meaningful career in an exciting, ever-evolving aviation industry.

The Role & The Team

Aerodrome Technology branch, supporting the National Airways System (NAS) across Australia and international aviation partners, is expected to grow from 16 to 25 team members—creating exciting career opportunities. As part of this expansion, roles like Project Engineer offer exposure to cutting-edge aviation systems, involvement in national infrastructure projects, leadership development, and hands-on experience across the full engineering lifecycle. It's a chance to contribute to the future of air traffic technology while growing your career in a dynamic, high-impact environment.

The Project Engineer is a key role within the Project. The role will provide technical and system engineering expertise to ensure the technical capability meets the required standard of a tower service.

Play a pivotal role in delivering systems engineering across all stages of the ATRP, from acquisition to implementation, supporting design, development, testing, installation and verification, while ensuring compliance with Airservices safety standards and contributing to key engineering reviews and documentation.

Support program's site installation, set-to-work, test and verification activities

Support technology change process, ensuring effective configuration management and change control

ATRP Project Engineer -

The Person

This is a fantastic opportunity for multiple Systems Engineers or Systems Technologists with several years' industry experience to join an amazing team environment. You will have experience performing systems engineering for a variety of complex and distributed software-based systems across the full system lifecycle.

Your exceptional communication skills will be used to liaise with a variety of senior management, engineers, project managers, and technical support personnel across Australia.

The successful candidate will have:

A degree in Engineering or Information Technology from an Australian tertiary institution or certified equivalent qualification (for overseas qualifications)

Able to obtain and maintain an Australian Government National Security Clearance at NV1 level.

Experience in the design, development, testing and implementation of robust and reliable software systems. This includes the over-arching aspects of quality assurance and configuration management.

At Airservices Australia, we embrace and thrive on diversity of thought, perspectives, and capabilities because we know the benefits of having a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve. We appreciate everyone is unique, and acknowledge diversity in thought leads to greater transparency and improved consideration in our decision making.

We believe a diverse workforce supported by an inclusive culture is central to our success. We actively encourage and welcome candidates from all cultural backgrounds, gender identities, people living with disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply.

Security Clearance

To be eligible to apply, you must be an Australian citizen as an Australian AGSVA security clearance is required for this role. Please refer to the security check requirements successful applicants will be required to undertake as part of the recruitment process.

Should you require any further information please contact Talent Advisor – Neethu Stephen

How to Apply

To apply for this position please lodge an application online before Applications close 11.55 pm (AEST) Sunday 28th September 2025

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