About Us
IAG Defence & National Security (DNS) is part of IAG, a specialist advisory firm supporting complex infrastructure, Defence and national security programs across Australia.
Our DNS team works closely with Commonwealth agencies and industry partners to deliver specialist expertise into nationally significant programs. Our success depends on our ability to identify, engage and mobilise highly specialised talent quickly and effectively. IAG is recognised as Veteran Friendly Employer under the Veteran Employment Program.
The Role
The Chief Marine Engineer is the Commonwealth’s senior marine engineering technical authority for the ABF fleet, accountable for fleet-wide engineering safety, regulatory compliance, and materiel technical integrity. The role provides authoritative engineering decision-making, risk acceptance, and assurance across sustainment, refits, new vessel introduction, and incident response, ensuring the Commonwealth retains defensible control of safety-critical engineering outcomes. The Chief Marine Engineer oversees the Deputy Chief Marine Engineer and the Assistant Marine Engineer in maintaining the regulatory models for ABF, in monitoring and assessing sea-going engineer support, and in providing detailed advice to senior managers regarding marine engineering matters in the ABF. The Chief Marine Engineer will support all ABF fleet vessels by contributing to forecasting, planning, and scheduling engineering policy and procedural requirements projects, resolving issues and updating policies and procedures, and implementing and relaying statutory regulations, marine protocols, and marine notices to the fleet. The Chief Marine Engineer will assist in establishing engineering policies and procedures in line with business and strategic objectives of the Branch and will contribute to fleet engineering in the compilation and assessment of Engineering Change proposals, Requests for Deviation, Repair Plans and Engineering reviews, ISM Code Certificate of Compliance Audits, Safety Management Certificate Audits and will represent the Department at various fora when required. The Chief Marine Engineer will be aware of the Engineering Change Management process. The Chief Marine Engineer will be aware of industry practices with respect reliability engineering principles. The Chief Marine Engineer is required to be applying asset management principles in accordance with ISO 55000. The Chief Marine Engineer will be called upon to provide engineering input to future ABF marine capabilities and/or projects.
About You
• Manage regulatory models that govern engineering services and standards for the ABF fleet, to ensure alignment with Australian and international protocols where required.
• Perform the function of the Technical Regulatory Authority for ABF’s marine capability.
• Contribute to the management of the Marine Safety Management System.
• Undertake strategic planning to best position ABF’s current and future maritime operational maintenance support requirements.
• Providing technical advice on maritime assets, engineering qualifications, personnel, training, and standards.
• Representing CMSB on matters related to maritime engineering matters at appropriate interagency, intergovernmental and industry meetings, committees and forums, negotiations and other activities with internal and external clients, stakeholders, and contractors.
• Providing detailed, accurate and timely advice to management relating to marine engineering and policy and procedural matters, and deliver other reporting requirements, as required; and
• Creating complete and accurate records, in accordance with the Recordkeeping Practice Statement and Procedural instruction, Departmental policies.
• Assist other areas of the Division in ensuring maritime activities are conducted consistent with:
o the Navigation Act 2012 (Cth), Marine Orders, STCW, MARPOL, SOLAS, and other maritime regulations the ABF’s Vessel Management Plans.
o the Workplace Health and Safety Act 2011 (Cth) (as they pertain to maritime and shore side operations).
o Australian Public Service Equity and Diversity provisions, and; Chief Executive Instructions and other Divisional guidelines.
What we offer
With offices in Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canberra, we’re a tight-knit team, working across some of Australia’s most critical infrastructure and Defence projects. We come from diverse backgrounds and pride ourselves on our flexible, supportive and collaborative team culture. We can offer great work, great people, great culture, great conditions, and an all-round great time, whilst you go about developing a great career in this space.
As part of IAG, you’ll be joining a team of more than 250 professionals’ working across a range of integrated workstreams in a friendly and approachable environment.
