Thales is a global company and a technology leader in the defence, security, aerospace and transport markets. We have 3,300 staff in Australia who design, develop and support equipment, systems and services to meet complex technical and security requirements.

Our capabilities include protected vehicles, soldier systems, naval communications, air traffic management, munitions, sonar systems and electronic warfare.

Position: Systems Engineering Manager
Work Location: Australian Capital Territory, Canberra

Job Description:

• Large scale communications based defence program.
• Competitive salary, bonus, medical insurance, parking, state of the art facilities and a fantastic location.
• New business precinct in the centre of Deakin.

About the role:
Our National Security domain provides communications systems, including satellites, wide area communications network infrastructure, tactical communications, command and control systems and C4ISR systems to key customers.

The Systems Engineering Manager will be a key in directing and delivering systems engineering activities on one of the largest terrestrial communications programs in Australian history. This is a permanent role with many benefits and future opportunities for career growth.

You will be commercially astute and draw on a wealth of experience to provide leadership and technical oversight to your engineering team so that they are able to design, deliver and maintain a reliable and economically viable solution to meet the needs of our customer.

This is significant opportunity to build your career while enjoying the benefits and security of working with a leading multinational Defence supplier.

Key responsibilities:

• Planning and coordinating the system engineering activities in accordance with design policy in order to satisfy customer requirements.
• Managing engineering activities to ensure compliance with legislative requirements, corporate and local engineering policies, processes and procedures, technical specifications and standards and if necessary developing required policies, processes and procedures.
• Acting as the technical interface with key stakeholders while providing engineering advice, technical support and expertise.
• Providing engineering leadership, mentoring and development for the engineering and technician teams.
• Preparing and participating in key engineering reviews, for example, system design reviews, test readiness reviews and configuration control boards.

Skills and experience:

• Prior extensive management of engineering teams.
• Degree in Engineering (in the field of systems, communications, electronics or electrical engineering or similar).
• Previous experience as a system engineering manager (or other similar capacity) on defence information & communication technology (ICT) and electronics systems projects or large transformation projects will be highly regarded.

Special requirements:
You must be able to obtain an Australian security clearance.

Interested? For more information, please contact Jessica Dunham on 02 9562 2985. Please click on the 'Apply Online' below.

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