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Senior Business Operations Officer

Manchester, NorthWest M1, United Kingdom • Full-time
AI Job Summary
  • Must be eligible to obtain a UK Security Clearance to apply.
  • Experience leading day-to-day business operations and administration.
  • Experience supporting quality, compliance and certification activities.

Role Type

Permanent • Full-time • Mid-level Senior

Description

Silentium Defence is an award-winning Australian Defence technology company delivering world-leading passive radar and sensing solutions across Defence, space, critical national infrastructure and security markets.

As part of our expansion into the United Kingdom and Europe, we are seeking a Senior Business Operations Officer to help establish and scale our regional operations. Working directly with the CEO UK & Europe, this role will become the operational backbone of the business, ensuring that our key business frameworks are set up for success and support rapid growth.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing Defence technology company at an early stage and play a critical role in shaping our UK and European success story.

Your impact:

  • Leading day-to-day business operations and administration
  • Establishing and maintaining business management systems
  • Supporting quality, compliance and certification activities
  • Managing security administration and IT
  • Supporting HR, finance and procurement activities
  • Coordinating bids, tenders and corporate submissions
  • Supporting UK and European business growth initiatives
  • Working closely with teams across the UK, Europe and Australia

About you:

You are excited by the opportunity to join a rapidly expanding Defence technology business, working directly with senior leadership to build new systems and processes from the ground up. You have an interest in cutting-edge Defence and space technology, and a proactive, positive approach.

You are an experienced business operations manager, with strong organisational and administrative skills. You place a high value on quality and continuous improvement, and have the ability to manage multiple priorities. Ideally, you have experience in the Defence, technology or Government industries.

If this sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you.

You must be eligible to obtain a UK Security Clearance to apply for this position.

Company Overview

Silentium Defence is a growing deep tech business shaping the future of Australia’s ground and space surveillance capability. We specialise in the development of passive radar solutions for Defence and civilian customers. Our technology is a game changer for Defence and we’re on a mission to create a new era in surveillance. We have a highly skilled, high-performing collaborative team and are looking for people as passionate as we are to grow our business and make impact on a global scale. What drives us every day is knowing we’re a part of a bigger picture to protect our incredible country and its critical infrastructure assets for many generations to come.