The Role:

It’s never been a more exciting time to be joining Navantia Australia, one of Australia’s leading companies in the Maritime Defence industry.

Navantia Australia has been awarded the Designer Support Contract to provide comprehensive design and engineering support to all Navantia designed ships in service with the Royal Australian Navy. This landmark contract marks a significant milestone for Navantia Australia, as it is the company’s first contract held directly with the Commonwealth of Australia (CoA), underscoring its commitment to innovation and excellence in the maritime industry.

At Navantia Australia, we’re looking for an experienced Lead Electrical Engineer to provide technical and people leadership across complex naval engineering projects.

This is an opportunity to combine your electrical engineering expertise with leadership, collaboration and problem-solving, working alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams to help deliver sophisticated maritime capability.

You’ll lead the Electrical Engineering discipline across systems including power distribution, electrical plant, cabling, control systems, batteries, lighting, alarms and Integrated Platform Management Systems

What you’ll be doing:

You’ll play a key role in both the technical delivery and leadership of the Electrical Engineering team.

You will

- Lead and support a team of electrical engineers, creating an environment where people can collaborate, develop and do their best work.
- Lead electrical systems design and integration activities for naval vessels.
- Coordinate design activities and work closely with other engineering disciplines.
- Support technical investigations, root cause analysis, impact assessments and development of engineering solutions.
- Plan and coordinate engineering activities from concept through to delivery.
- Build strong working relationships with customers, suppliers, subcontractors and other project stakeholders.
- Lead design coordination and design review meetings.
- Support the development and review of technical reports, drawings, designs and installation work packages.




- Work collaboratively across multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver successful project outcomes.

About you:

We’re looking for an experienced engineer who brings both technical capability and an inclusive, collaborative approach to leadership.

You may have built your career in naval shipbuilding, maritime, Defence or another complex engineering environment and are now ready to take the next step in technical leadership.

Ideally, you’ll bring:

- Tertiary qualifications in Electrical Engineering.
- Significant experience in electrical engineering, ideally within Defence, maritime or another complex technical environment.
- Experience or knowledge of ship electrical systems, systems integration or marine platform design.
- The ability to lead, support and motivate engineering professionals.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Experience working with technical documentation and engineering design information.
- Familiarity with CAD tools such as AutoCAD or MicroStation.
- An understanding of relevant engineering standards, regulations or classification requirements.
- Australian Citizenship mandatory with the ability to obtain an NV1 security clearance.

Don’t meet every requirement?

We know that great candidates don’t always meet every requirement on a . If this opportunity interests you and you bring relevant engineering experience, leadership capability and a willingness to learn, we encourage you to apply.

We value different experiences, perspectives and career pathways, and we’re interested in the strengths you can bring to our team.

What it’s like to work with Navantia Australia:





Navantia Australia plays a key part in the Australian government’s Naval Shipbuilding Plan, we are committed to growing Australia’s shipbuilding and sustainment capability and we want you to grow your career with us. We recognise that it’s our people who are our greatest asset and are committed to giving all employees the opportunity to grow their skills, gain valuable experience, develop professionally, and work on exciting diverse projects. We pride ourselves on being an equal chance employer and embrace culture of corporate diversity and workplace innovation.

We provide a range of benefits including:

- Company Paid Parental Leave (12 weeks Primary Carer / 2 weeks Secondary Carer)
- Navantia Australia Flexible Work Policy (Up to 2 days per week Work From Home dependent on site)
- Company paid Defence Reservist Leave – 4 weeks
- Employee Discounts Portal offering discounts from major retailers
- Salary sacrifice for Superannuation
- Novated Lease
- Training opportunities
- Spanish language classes
- Quarterly Employee Achievement Award
- Company paid shuttle bus from Garden Island < > Kings Cross Station
- Weekly fruit boxes all sites
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

About Us:

Navantia Australia specialises in project management, engineering services and through life support in the naval shipbuilding domain. We provide the Royal Australian Navy (Navy) with cross platform solutions through our heritage and evolved capability as an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and our platform integration expertise.

As the designer and through participation in the Destroyer Guided Missile (DDG), Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment (AOR), Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) and LHD Landing Craft (LLC) programs, Navantia Australia has been a vital part of interesting, innovative and cutting-edge shipbuilding and sustainment activities.

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Australia also supports the Navy through provision of design compliant and product agnostic engineering upgrades to meet demands for capability advancements to accommodate for new and emerging threats.

📌 Lead Electrical Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 NAVANTIA AUSTRALIA
📍 Sydney