Systems Engineering and Verification & Validation Manager

SPX Aids to Navigation are seeking an experiencedSystems Engineering and Verification & Validation Manager to meet the increasing global demand for our products and join our growing team.

This is a rare opportunity to combine technical leadership with people leadership, shaping both the engineering standards that underpin our products and the capability of the teams who deliver them.

If you're passionate about developing engineers, driving collaboration with subject matter experts across global teams, and building systems that perform in safety-critical environments, we'd love to hear from you.

About the Role

This is a global leadership role responsible for the Systems Engineering and V&V; disciplines across new product development, customer solutions and sustaining engineering.

Leading a team of Systems Engineers in Australia and providing functional leadership to regional Validation and Test Engineers worldwide, you'll establish best practice, define engineering standards, and ensure products are developed with robust requirements, architecture, integration, verification and validation throughout the lifecycle.

Most importantly, you'll create an environment where engineers can do their best work, develop their capability, and contribute to delivering industry-leading solutions for our customers.

What You'll Be Doing

Lead, inspire, mentor, and develop a high performing team in the creation and execution of programs Defining user needs, requirements analysis, requirements derivation and traceability,

Manage and lead the development of custom system solutions in response to customer requirements.

Manage recent product introduction throughout the entire product lifecycle from product management requirements input to product handover,



and ongoing maintenance.

Identifying, quantifying, documenting and realising opportunities for improvement within the SPX Aids to Navigation product range or life-cycle.

Providing technical support and advice on design changes custom orders, or improvements to ensure product success in all stages of their life-cycles and continued integration with other products

Collaboration in interdisciplinary development teams in order to produce a solution that meets specification.

Have foundational knowledge in INCOSE Systems Engineering.

About You

You're an engineering leader who enjoys helping people succeed just as much as solving complex technical challenges.

You'll bring:

A degree in Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, Software Engineering or a related discipline.

Significant experience leading Systems Engineering and Verification & Validation activities across complex product environments.

Experience operating within regulated, certified, safety-critical or highly engineered industries.

Demonstrated success leading senior technical professionals and matrix teams across multiple sites or regions.

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.

Experience balancing technical quality, commercial realities and delivery priorities.

A passion for coaching, developing and building capability in others.

Highly Regarded

INCOSE CSEP, ESEP or equivalent professional accreditation.

Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).

Knowledge of reliability engineering, functional safety, cybersecurity or human factors.

Experience supporting customer, quality or certification audits.

Exposure to aviation, marine navigation, infrastructure or other safety-critical industries.

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