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
An opportunity exists for an experienced Defence maritime engineering professional to join a newly formed Project Management Office (PMO), tasked with delivering a fully integrated and sustainable support system for one of Navy’s critical platforms. Following the extension of the platform’s life‑of‑type, the PMO will lead the remediation, standardisation and long‑term sustainment planning required to ensure capability availability and fleet wide engineering assurance.
As the Engineering Manager, you will exercise delegated engineering authority and provide leadership across engineering governance, requirements setting, maintenance analysis and design baseline definition. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the support system is coherent, auditable and aligned with Defence engineering and configuration expectations.
Key Responsibilities
- Setting and overseeing engineering requirements across all remediation activities.
- Exercising Engineering Authority in support of program decision‑making.
- Leading engineering governance, configuration compliance, and technical assurance.
- Planning and managing the fleet wide Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA) program.
- Defining and establishing the Design Baseline for the platform.
- Working closely with PMO leadership and Defence stakeholders to achieve key milestones.
About You
We’re seeking a skilled professional with the following key skills and attributes:
- Bachelor‑level engineering qualification in a relevant discipline (Mechanical, Marine, Systems, or equivalent).
- Demonstrated experience performing as a delegated engineering authority within Defence maritime programs.
- Strong understanding of Defence engineering governance, configuration management frameworks and certification practices.
- Experience establishing or managing Design Baselines, technical assurance frameworks and engineering compliance processes.
- Demonstrated experience overseeing Maintenance Task Analysis activities, Standard Activities, maintenance schedule updates or fleet wide sustainment reviews.
- Strong understanding of naval platform systems, vessel maintenance practices and maritime regulatory compliance.
- Strong leadership capability with experience guiding multidisciplinary engineering or technical teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to brief senior stakeholders and develop clear, defensible engineering artefacts.
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.
To find out more about us, visit https://iagadvisory.com.au, or submit your CV by clicking the Apply button. We look forward to receiving your application.
