Project Technical Lead (Project Engineer)

We continually strive to help our workforce achieve their professional and personal goals, engaging them in challenging and inspiring projects.

Primary duties

• Own the project’s technical integration strategy, engineering scope and coordinated delivery from planning through acceptance.
• Integrate hardware, software and mechanical subsystems into a coherent system architecture and verified product baseline.
• Integrate systems, safety, security and industrialisation activities across the development lifecycle.
• Manage technical interfaces, dependencies, trade-offs and cross-disciplinary risks.
• Provide clear system-level technical direction, decisions, reporting and escalation to project and engineering leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the technical integration plan, including architecture, interfaces, dependencies, integration sequence, resources, milestones and evidence.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary design and ensure subsystem solutions collectively satisfy system requirements and operational needs.
• Lead interface definition and control across internal teams, suppliers, platforms and customer systems.
• Plan and lead incremental subsystem and system integration, verification, validation and acceptance activities.
• Resolve cross-disciplinary conflicts and technical gaps through evidence-based trade-offs and system-level decisions.
• Maintain requirements traceability, interface control, configuration baselines and integration evidence.
• Ensure the integrated design is producible, supportable and ready for production, deployment and customer use.

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related discipline; postgraduate qualifications are desirable.
• At least five years’ experience leading multidisciplinary engineering and technical integration on complex projects.
• Demonstrated delivery of subsystem integration, interface management and system-level verification through to an accepted product baseline.
• Demonstrated depth in at least one engineering discipline and working knowledge across hardware, software, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, safety, security and industrialisation.
• Strong understanding of system architecture, requirements, technical governance, configuration management and production transition.
• Experience delivering within Australian Defence technical-regulatory and ASDEFCON environments is desirable.