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Systems Engineering Manager

• Leadership career opportunity with the world’s largest Aerospace and Defence company;
• New role developing a team of experienced engineering professionals to deliver outcomes;
• Join a friendly and collaborative team, site-based at Lane Cove West, NSW.

Who we are?

When you join Collins Aerospace (a business of RTX), you will be joining a team dedicated to working on some of the most unique challenges in global aerospace and defence. We work side-by-side with our customers and partners to create, design and deliver solutions that redefine the future.

Your role

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, in this new career opportunity as Systems Engineering Manager, you will work as a hands-on leader, both leading and contributing to a team of experienced engineering professionals. You and your team will ensure the quality and standards of work achieved in the delivery of systems engineering services are precise, timely and dedicated to meeting our company and Australian defense program requirements.

Key Responsibilities of your new role will include:

• Team Leadership: model leadership behaviours to grow and develop your team - supporting their career development, as they work to meet project and customer requirements aligned with our company Values.
• Subject Matter Expert: apply your systems engineering expertise to deliver timely project outcomes; delivering superior quality of technical documentation to produce clear and concise content to meet required engineering and client standards.
• Resource Management: Regularly review capabilities, performance, capacity, process, and system requirements against current and future needs, to identify and address gaps in conjunction with the management of the departmental budget.
• Innovation: Lead and champion the development of new engineering practices, plans, techniques and technologies, systems and processes to deliver continuous improvement.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Work collaboratively and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders to influence and ensure that programs are delivered on time and in full.  Plan and deliver associated products and services to meet assigned objectives.
• Exemplify Leadership: by example, as a technical contributor, produces engineering work of a high standard to meet project parameters; in a professional and collaborative manner.

Skills & Competencies:

Essential:

• Bachelor of Engineering,  Bachelor of Science degree or other applicable Degree.
• Prior technical leadership of engineering projects that involve product development across the broad spectrum of complex systems, including full system integration.
• Proven ability and experience  representing the company as a technical expert across all stakeholder environments, including formal and informal presentations at both frontline and senior executive levels.
• Proven background and experience mentoring, supporting and leading a team; making programmatic and technical decisions with accuracy and within set timeframes.

Desirable:

• Experience and knowledge of command, control and communications systems in a Defence environment.  Experience involving tactical data links will be highly regarded.
• An experienced systems engineer, with proven background involving the entirety of systems development processes, including requirements capture, design, decomposition, integration, and verification/validation, as well as transition to production.
• Familiarity with engineering development in an agile and DEVSECOPS environment.

To apply: Apply online at our website https://careers.rtx.com/global/en/collins-aerospace  please include your Cover Letter and CV. Or apply directly follow the link on this page.

Successful candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain an Australian Defence Security Clearance  (NV1 standing); eligibility can be found at http://www.defence.gov.au/agsva    This position requires Australian Citizenship and eligibility to be certified compliant with US ITAR technology access requirements.

Collins Aerospace is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

We are Collins Aerospace, and we hope you join us for an exciting career in AEROSPACE and DEFENCE.

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