Systems Engineer

• Location - ACT
• Australian Citizens with NV1 Clearance
• Length of Contract: 4 months
• The role closes on 3rd March 2026

About the Role:

The role requires, Defence specific experience in:

• Defence capital acquisition projects.
• Performing critical and complex engineering activities.
• Evaluating delivered materiel/items meets requirements and legislative, policy and regulatory frameworks, provide recommendations.
• exercising assigned engineering authorities and any Technical Regulatory Authority delegations.
• effectively communicating with internal and external stakeholders
• Technical certification & Engineering compliance.
• Engineering change process including experience in Configuration Control Board.
• conduct reviews of contract deliverables understanding of Defence engineering policies, processes and plans.
• systems engineering technical and professional advice.
• the ability to draft and review systems engineering artefacts across the full systems engineering lifecycle.
• the ability to work under limited direction to perform and achieve complex systems engineering work.

Experience / Skills Sought:
The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• The conduct of tender evaluations as a member of a Tender Evaluation Working Group.
• Researching and developing requirements.
• Experience in Land domain.
• Experienced in leading engineering tasks and teams.
• Conduct reviews of contract deliverables.
• Supporting development of engineering plans (e.g. Test and Evaluation Master Plan, Systems Engineering Management Plan, Safety Management Plan, Configuration Management Plan).
• Supporting development of documents in preparation of Government submissions.
• Providing professional engineering advice to support the achievement of Land-worthiness land military equipment and systems, in accordance with the applicable engineering governance frameworks.

Essential Experience and / or Qualifications:

• A qualified engineering practitioner with a minimum of Engineering Degree qualification with relevant and recent defence industry experience of more than 7 years.
• Work under broad supervision.
• Good understanding of Defence Systems Engineering concepts.
• Understanding of the One Defence Capability System (formerly the Capability Life Cycle).
• Previous and current Systems Engineering experience.
• Negative Vetting 1 Security Clearance.
• Current/active Chartered Engineering accreditation preferred.

Additional Criteria:

• DSS - 2.1 Systems and Software Engineering - Systems Engineering - L3
• SFIA Skill Code - Systems and software lifecycle engineering (SLEN) - L4

Please contact Team.australia@ariszincgroup.com.au or simply click apply to submit your application

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