Black Sky Aerospace Pty Ltd – Crestmead QLD

Black Sky Industries is an Australian company delivering sovereign capability across the defence and space sectors. We design and manufacture advanced technology here in Queensland, and we're growing our team as we scale.

The role

As Head of Mechanical Engineering, you'll lead our mechanical engineering team and own the delivery of mechanical design across all of our programs. You'll make sure the hardware we design is flight qualified, manufacturable and under configuration control, and you'll set the direction, standards and priorities for the team as we grow.

Key responsibilities

- Lead the mechanical engineering team, including our Senior Mechanical Engineer, who holds mechanical design authority
- Set the team's direction, priorities and standards (drawing, GD&T; and design rules)
- Allocate engineers across programs and rebalance as priorities shift
- Schedule and support design reviews (CoDR, PDR, CDR), and track baselines and deviations through to approval
- Work with the workshop, production and assembly teams on design for manufacture, tolerances, materials and tooling
- Keep the team compliant with AS9100 and customer-specific standards
- Develop your people, from intern to senior, through transparent competency progression




- Manage the team's budget, headcount and recruitment, and represent mechanical engineering to the leadership team and customers

What you'll bring
- A degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering
- Experience leading a mechanical engineering team that delivers hardware to schedule
- Strong experience with configuration control, design reviews and design for manufacture
- Experience in defence, aerospace or another regulated engineering environment
- Experience in a fast-paced or growing organisation
- Australian citizenship and eligibility to obtain a security clearance

Highly regarded
- Experience with solid rocket motors, energetics or pressure vessels
- Experience working within an AS9100 quality management system
- Experience taking designs through test and qualification
- Chartered engineer status (CPEng or equivalent)
- A current NV1 security clearance
- Meaningful work building sovereign capability for Australia
- A capable, close-knit team
- Broad exposure across engineering, manufacturing and operations
- A competitive remuneration package

If you're a mechanical engineering leader who wants to build something that matters, we'd like to hear from you.

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📌 Head of Mechanical Engineering (Brisbane)
🏢 Black Sky Aerospace
📍 Brisbane