All Orbits, All Planets - Join us on our journey

Gilmour Space is a leading Australian space company, developing launch vehicles, satellite platforms, advanced propulsion technologies; and launching from our licensed orbital spaceport in Bowen, North Queensland.

Are you a creative and experienced 'Lead Mechanical Engineer' looking for a dynamic role where your skills will make a real impact? Have you ever dreamt of working with rockets right here in Australia? Well now’s your chance Gilmour Space is seeking a talented individual to join our creative team to send rockets to Space Conveniently located between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, our new state-of-the-art facility, purpose-built for designing and manufacturing rockets in-house, is equipped with the latest technology and tools, providing an ideal environment for innovation and excellence. So, what are you waiting for? Join us and be a part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of space exploration and let’s send Australia to Space together

How you will contribute to our mission in getting Australia to space:

The below is designed to give you an idea of the role you will play. There will be many more exciting and innovative things to do:

- Engineering Leadership
- Lead the successful technical delivery of assigned subsystems, engineering work packages, or strategic engineering initiatives.
- Coordinate engineering activities across multidisciplinary teams to achieve agreed technical, schedule, cost, and quality objectives.
- Allocate engineering activities appropriate to team capability, workload, and program priorities.
- Exercise delegated technical authority appropriate to the assigned scope of responsibility.




- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
- Other duties as required by Management

Technical Delivery:

- Develop and execute engineering delivery strategies that support program objectives.
- Balance technical performance, manufacturability, verification, schedule, cost, safety, and operational requirements throughout the engineering lifecycle.
- Monitor technical progress and proactively resolve delivery risks, technical issues, and engineering constraints.
- Ensure engineering outputs are delivered to the required standard and support successful hardware delivery.

Hardware Development:

- Provide technical leadership throughout concept development, detailed design, manufacture, integration, verification, qualification, and operational support.
- Guide engineering trade studies and major technical decisions affecting subsystem performance.
- Ensure engineering solutions appropriately consider whole-of-system impacts.
- Support complex engineering activities where additional technical capability or leadership is required.

Verification & Validation:

- Develop verification strategies appropriate to subsystem complexity.
- Review and approve engineering analyses, technical reports, verification evidence, and engineering documentation within delegated authority.




- Lead technical investigations into engineering issues, anomalies, failures, and corrective actions.
- Ensure engineering decisions are supported by appropriate technical evidence.

Stakeholder Leadership:

- Build productive working relationships across engineering, manufacturing, operations, quality, supply chain, and program teams.
- Represent Mechanical Engineering during technical reviews, planning activities, integration forums, and program decision-making.
- Communicate technical status, risks, priorities, and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Align multidisciplinary engineering teams towards common delivery objectives.

Engineering Capability:

- Mentor Mechanical Engineers and Senior Mechanical Engineers.
- Develop engineering capability through coaching, constructive feedback, and technical leadership.
- Contribute to the development of engineering standards, methods, tools, and best practice.
- Drive continuous improvement across engineering processes and team performance.

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
- 6 + years of experience in a professional mechanical engineering setting (excluding internships)
- Demonstrated experience leading the successful delivery of complex engineering programs, subsystems, or major hardware developments.
- Proven ability to coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Strong engineering judgement and systems thinking.
- Demonstrated ability to balance competing technical, schedule, cost, manufacturing, and operational priorities.
- Strong communication, stake

📌 Lead Mechanical Engineer (Bowen)
🏢 Gilmour Space Technologies
📍 Bowen