Project Technical Lead (Project Engineer)

EOS Defence Systems · Hume

We continually strive to help our workforce achieve their professional and personal goals, engaging them in challenging and inspiring projects.

Primary duties

Own the project’s technical integration strategy, engineering scope and coordinated delivery from planning through acceptance.
Integrate hardware, software and mechanical subsystems into a coherent system architecture and verified product baseline.
Integrate systems, safety, security and industrialisation activities across the development lifecycle.
Manage technical interfaces, dependencies, trade-offs and cross-disciplinary risks.
Provide clear system-level technical direction, decisions, reporting and escalation to project and engineering leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the technical integration plan, including architecture, interfaces, dependencies, integration sequence, resources, milestones and evidence.
Coordinate multidisciplinary design and ensure subsystem solutions collectively satisfy system requirements and operational needs.
Lead interface definition and control across internal teams, suppliers, platforms and customer systems.
Plan and lead incremental subsystem and system integration, verification, validation and acceptance activities.
Resolve cross-disciplinary conflicts and technical gaps through evidence-based trade-offs and system-level decisions.
Maintain requirements traceability, interface control, configuration baselines and integration evidence.
Ensure the integrated design is producible, supportable and ready for production, deployment and customer use.

Experience

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related discipline; postgraduate qualifications are desirable.
At least five years’ experience leading multidisciplinary engineering and technical integration on complex projects.
Demonstrated delivery of subsystem integration, interface management and system-level verification through to an accepted product baseline.
Demonstrated depth in at least one engineering discipline and working knowledge across hardware, software, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, safety, security and industrialisation.
Strong understanding of system architecture, requirements, technical governance, configuration management and production transition.
Experience delivering within Australian Defence technical-regulatory and ASDEFCON environments is desirable.