- Permanent career opportunities, excellent growth prospects
- Various roles and levels available
- Top tier project scope

I am delighted to share our current EOI for defence opportunities. Whilst opportunities vary in seniority and experience level, they all offer excellent career progression, benefit packages and project exposure . Important considerations for all roles:

- Australian Citizenship: Mandatory

In your application - pleae ensure to state the role & location you are interested in. You can do so by emailing Amy McNulty directly on: [email protected] (amy . mcnulty . @ hays. com. au ) with a copy of your resume. Lead Technical Writer | Melbourne

- Baseline minimum, NV1 preferred.
- Lead & mentor a team of Technical Writing team members
- Not a hands-on role; this role is more focused on leadership and consolidating the technical writing team's documentation into project management deliverable
- Experience in Defence industry and its logistics practices and standards
- Experience with methodologies for the development of documentation for hardware and software products
- Experience with writing and editing large and/or complex documents.
- Sound understanding of the development and the inter-relation between the various ILS elements.
- S1000D publication development highly regarded.

Senior Project Manager | Melbourne

- Excellent career pathway through to General Management.
- NV1 clearance required.
- 10+ years defence industry project management experience required.
- Must have project delivery experience in defence below the line (non government).
- Background delivering complex projects, ideally multiple projects simultaneously.
- Project delivery experience ideally within defence electronics, communications or similar.
- Strong autonomy and project versatility.

Supply Chain Lead/Manager | Melbourne

- Australian Citizenship, with clearance preferred.
- Must have experience working in defence industry previously.
- Excellent flagship defence project that is still in its infancy.
- Robust career progression opportunity.
- Proven experience with dealing with Customs, Export Controls
- Proven experience with dealing directly with vendors (International and Domestic)
- Experience with working on ERP Systems. Preferably Microsoft Energetic
- Proactive personality.

Engineering Manager | Perth

- Excellent opportunity to join an innovative and rapidly growing aerospace and defence organisation in this senior leadership opportunity - be part of shaping and growing your team.
- Must have solid New Product Development & New Product Introduction (NPI) experience.
- You will have a background in aerospace, defence or complex 3d manufacturing NPI.




- Mechanical or Mechatronics background - must have strong Mechanical product experience.
- Robust leadership skills - be part of growing and building a team.

Supply Chain Officer / Lead | Perth

- Excellent opportunity to join an innovative and rapidly growing aerospace organisation.
- Solid career development pathways.
- You must have strong Supply Chain experience
- You will have experience dealing with domestic and international complex suppliers.
- Be a proactive character, with an understanding of complex supply chain.
- AS9100 / aerospace experience highly preferred.

Head of Quality & Integrated Management Systems | Perth or Sydney

- Australian Citizenship & ITAR relevant.
- Well-established organisation at a pivotal point of growth.
- Excellent organisation offering diverse exposure across all business group entities.
- Strong autonomy and visability across the business.
- Must be someone who can lead from the front, whilst still being motivated and proactive enough to be hands-on.
- Strong experience in a Quality or IMS management role, within defence, aerospace, shipbuilding or complex manufacturing industries.
- Must be someone adaptable with solid collaborative leadership ability.

Senior Systems Engineer | Melbourne Join a highly technical engineering team delivering complex electronics & communication systems across the full systems engineering lifecycle. Excellent career pathway into Lead Engineer.

- NV1 clearance
- Strong systems engineering process experience
- Strong capability in requirements analysis, system design, integration, verification and validation activities.
- Experience using systems engineering tools such as DOORS and managing engineering artefacts.
- Technical background in Electronics and/or communications.
- Degree qualified in Electronics, Systems, Software, Mechatronics or similar.

Systems Engineering Manager | Melbourne Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team delivering complex, mission-critical software and systems integration projects. Ideal for a senior technical leader who enjoys balancing engineering governance, resource management and systems engineering excellence.

- Strong engineering experience with 10+ years applying systems engineering principles in complex environments.
- 5+ year's experience in technical leadership, resource planning and engineering management.
- Strong background in systems design, integration,



configuration management and engineering governance.
- Engineering or Computer Science degree required.

Lead Systems Engineer | Melbourne A hands-on technical leadership role focused on complex software-intensive systems, architecture, integration and customer-facing engineering delivery.

- Strong experience in systems engineering, systems integration and software-based solutions.
- Strong expertise in Linux, networking, network security, XML and virtualisation technologies.
- Proven experience across requirement's management, system design, integration, testing, verification and validation.
- Ability to lead technical decisions, define architectures and work closely with software and hardware development teams.
- Degree in Software Engineering, Electronics Engineering or Computer Science.

Senior Systems Engineer | Melbourne Join a highly technical engineering team delivering complex electronics & communication systems across the full systems engineering lifecycle. Excellent career pathway into Lead Engineer.

- NV1 clearance
- Strong systems engineering process experience
- Strong capability in requirements analysis, system design, integration, verification and validation activities.
- Experience using systems engineering tools such as DOORS and managing engineering artefacts.
- Technical background in Electronics and/or communications.
- Degree qualified in Electronics, Systems, Software, Mechatronics or similar.

Project Engineering Manager | Melbourne Lead the delivery of complex engineering projects, providing technical leadership while managing multidisciplinary teams and project engineering outcomes.

- Significant experience applying systems engineering principles to complex software and integrated system projects.
- Proven leadership experience managing engineering teams, technical scope, risk and project delivery.
- Strong systems integration expertise with the ability to manage complex technical challenges and stakeholder engagement.
- Experience across systems engineering management plans, testing strategies, safety, human factors, cybersecurity and supportability.
- Engineering or Computer Science degree required.

Senior Systems Engineer | Melbourne Excellent career pathway into a lead engineering role working across multiple complex defence projects.

- NV1 Clearance
- Systems engineering process experience, full lifecycle ideal.
- Experience with Linux
- Electronics, Communications and Network experience.

If you are interested in any of these opportunities, reply directly to [email protected] with a copy of your resume & state the role(s) you are interested in. Don't miss out.... reach out TODAY! #HaysDefence

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