Engineering Manager (APAC)
Metrea is standing up its AERO aerospace engineering footprint in Australia and seeks an Engineering Manager in Brisbane to align aircraft design and modification with Australian government customer requirements — covering CASA certification (Part 21/138/145/42), verification & validation planning, and test and acceptance management, working with US/UK engineering teams.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Brisbane, Australia
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Professional systems engineering qualifications up to CEng level
- Extensive experience on aircraft design and modification projects in highly regulated environments
- Practitioner-level knowledge of CASA certification frameworks: Part 138, Part 145, Part 42, Part 21
- Knowledge of Australian government customer methodologies for setting requirements for contracted airborne services
- Demonstrable experience in complex aircraft Test and Acceptance management
- Major aircraft engineering program and project management experience
- Familiarity with airborne assets, missions and effects across Metrea's capability portfolio
- Ability to obtain and maintain a minimum NV1 AGSVA Security Clearance
- Able to travel frequently across Australia and regularly to Metrea facilities in the UK and US
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Aviation Management, Project Management, IT, Business Administration, or related field
- Microsoft Project certifications
- Proficient in Microsoft 365, project management principles, quality management systems (e.g., AS9100), and safety protocols
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Valid driver's license
Full description
Company Overview
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.
At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Group Overview
Metrea is actively building its presence in Australia as part of a deliberate, globally coordinated expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. Our Asia-Pacific Market Group, headquartered in Brisbane with an additional office in Perth, is the enterprise's dedicated regional interface — connecting Australia's national security community with Metrea's full suite of capabilities across three core domains: Aerospace, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Digital & Synthetic. Metrea is now bringing that same depth of mission expertise and proven operating model to Australia.
Underpinning these capabilities is a global network of Support Groups spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement — ensuring that as we grow in Australia, we do so with the full weight of an established global enterprise behind us.
Metrea's solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving — enabling our partners to scale capacity and achieve asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Our Aerospace Engineering Group (AERO) is responsible for all of Metrea’s aviation engineering capabilities, including design integration and certification. Taking concepts and solution requirements and delivering well designed, high fit, certified solutions. It comprises of 3 capability areas: Aerospace Design for design and certification, the Aircraft Integration Centre responsible for aircraft integration and Metrea’s Airborne Asset Adaptation (A3) cell responsible for coordination and project management across all integration activities.