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 quick-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.
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.
GroupOverview
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas, including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refuelling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation.
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.
Position Summary
In this role, you will lead the implementation, certification and ongoing maintenance of Metrea's Integrated Management System (IMS) in Australia. Your immediate priority will be to establish and demonstrate the ISO ****-certified Quality Management System required to support mobilisation and delivery of the Australian contract. You will then coordinate the Australian compliance environment across the other management-system standards adopted within the enterprise IMS, including AS****, ISO *****, ISO ***** and ISO ***** where applicable to the certified scope.
You will be Metrea's principal in-country operational compliance specialist and a member of the enterprise Safety, Operational Compliance & Training team, working alongside specialists responsible for the Americas and EMEA. You will partner with Australian leaders and process owners to translate contractual, regulatory, customer and certification requirements into practical processes and reliable evidence. You will provide independent assurance without taking ownership away from the leaders responsible for operating those processes.
You will be successful if you can build a proportionate management system that supports delivery rather than adding unnecessary bureaucracy, identify the difference between documented arrangements and work as performed, and help teams address weaknesses before they become audit findings or operational failures.
What You'll Do
Lead the design, implementation and certification of the Australian Quality Management System to ISO ****, ensuring the contractually required certified system is achieved and maintained within the required timeframe
Coordinate implementation and ongoing governance of the wider enterprise IMS in Australia, including applicable AS****, ISO *****, ISO ***** and ISO ***** requirements
Maintain a clear register of contractual, customer, regulatory and management-system requirements, assign them to appropriate process owners and monitor the evidence of continuing conformity
Partner with Australian leaders and functional owners to develop proportionate processes, procedures, records and controls that meet requirements and support effective operations
Develop and deliver a risk-based programme of internal audits, compliance assessments and gap analyses that tests both documented arrangements and work as performed
Coordinate external certification and surveillance audits, including audit planning, evidence readiness, registrar liaison, responses to findings and verification of corrective-action effectiveness
Manage the Australian non-conformance and corrective-action process, supporting sound root-cause analysis, monitoring actions to closure and escalating overdue or ineffective responses
Prepare management-review inputs and provide leaders with clear analysis of compliance performance, systemic weaknesses, recurring findings, emerging risks and improvement priorities
Provide practical advice, coaching and awareness training on the IMS, audit readiness, process ownership, risk-based thinking and evidence of conformity
Collaborate with the Americas and EMEA Operational Compliance Specialists to maintain consistent enterprise standards, share lessons,



conduct cross-regional assurance and support wider certification priorities
What You Bring
A recognised qualification in quality, engineering, aviation, business, risk, compliance or a related discipline, supported by relevant professional experience
Ideally five plus years of progressively responsible experience in quality assurance, operational compliance, management systems or regulatory compliance within aviation, aerospace, defence or another highly regulated sector
Demonstrated experience implementing, maintaining or materially improving an ISO ****-certified Quality Management System
Strong working knowledge of ISO **** and practical understanding of integrated management systems, including the relationship between quality, environmental, WHS, information-security and aerospace-quality requirements
Experience planning and conducting internal audits, supporting external certification audits, managing findings and verifying corrective-action effectiveness
Strong understanding of process ownership, risk-based thinking, root-cause analysis, performance measurement, management review and continual improvement
Ability to interpret contractual and technical requirements, determine their practical implications and convert them into clear processes and objective evidence
Strong judgement, professional independence and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and operational teams constructively in a global matrixed organisation
Nice to Haves
Lead Auditor or Internal Auditor qualification for ISO **** or AS****, with additional auditor competence in ISO *****, ISO ***** or ISO *****
Experience establishing a new certified management system or extending an existing certification into a new legal entity, geography or operational scope
Working knowledge of AS**** and the aerospace quality requirements relevant to maintenance, engineering, suppliers and configuration-controlled products or services
Experience in Australian aviation, defence contracting, government customers or CASA-regulated operating environments
Experience using digital management-system, audit, corrective-action or business-intelligence tools to improve evidence, visibility and decision-making
AdditionalEligibilityQualifications
Current driver's licence and the ability to travel regularily between Australian sites, with occasional international travel
Ability to access office, aviation, maintenance and other operational environments when conducting audits and assessments
Ability to obtain and maintain and AGSVA Security Clearance
Benefits
Private Health Insurance
Generous Annual Leave
Annual incentive plan
Paid parental leave
Life and TPD Insurance
Income Protection Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
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Inclusion Statement
We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and make hiring deci-sions based on capability, potential and alignment with our values. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let us know.
Our Firmware
At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.
Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.
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📌 Quality & Operational Compliance Leader (Brisbane)
🏢 Metrea
📍 Brisbane