Configuration Manager

Leidos Australia; Newcastle City Council; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extra leave

Learning support

Certifications

Career pathways

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a skilled Configuration Management professional to lead change control, baseline management, and document control across defence programs based in Canberra or Newcastle. You will ensure traceability, versioning, and compliance with engineering standards within multi-disciplinary teams.

The role requires strong communication with stakeholders and meticulous governance. This position offers opportunities to work on mission-critical projects and contribute to national

Qualifications

• Configuration management expertise, including change control, version management, and baseline management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills to coordinate across technical and project teams.
• High level of organisation and attention to detail, particularly in documentation, governance, and quality processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the configuration management process, including change control, baseline management, and quality control.
• Oversee document control processes to ensure accurate versioning, traceability, and accessibility of project documentation.
• Support delivery of quality assurance activities, ensuring compliance with project, engineering, and defence standards.
• Coordinate configuration and quality activities across multidisciplinary and international project teams to maintain project integrity.

Skills

Configuration management

Stakeholder engagement

Documentation

Job description

At Leidos Australia, our work goes beyond a job title. We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life.

Backed by a global organisation of more than 40,000 people, our Australian team of around 2,000 has partnered with government, defence and national security customers for more than 30 years. We deliver mission-critical solutions where reliability, trust and purpose matter.

Benefits

Leidos is a destination for people who want their work to have purpose, their contribution to be recognised, and their career to grow without needing to fit a single mould. Meaningful work is supported by benefits, flexibility and career pathways that help you grow while balancing life outside work. This includes:

• Up to 12 Life Days of additional leave each year
• Support for learning, development and relevant certifications
• Opportunities to work across programs, domains and emerging technologies
• Career pathways that can evolve with your interests, capability and ambition

About The Team

You’ll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. In practice, that means sharing ownership, solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context, the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes.

We provide world‑leading naval and marine engineering expertise in support of Australia's maritime enterprise. Through our highly skilled team of naval architects, engineers and maritime specialists, we support major Australian naval programs and emerging maritime technologies across ship design, engineering, systems integration, acquisition and sustainment.

Leveraging nearly a century of naval design excellence and access to Gibbs & Cox's global network of specialists, we help deliver complex maritime projects that strengthen Australia's sovereign shipbuilding, naval design and maritime capability.

The Opportunity

This role is an opportunity to contribute to the Leidos Gibbs & Cox Australia team by delivering outcomes that matter. You will work with stakeholders to understand priorities, solve problems and support delivery of configuration management.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead and manage the configuration management process, including change control, baseline management, and quality control.
• Oversee document control processes to ensure accurate versioning, traceability, and accessibility of project documentation.
• Support delivery of quality assurance activities, ensuring compliance with project, engineering, and defence standards.
• Coordinate configuration and quality activities across multidisciplinary and international project teams to maintain project integrity.
• Based in Canberra or Newcastle.

About You

We are looking for someone who brings judgement, curiosity and a collaborative approach to work that matters.

Essential For This Role

• Configuration management expertise, including change control, version management, and baseline management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills to coordinate across technical and project teams.
• High level of organisation and attention to detail, particularly in documentation, governance, and quality processes.
• Background working in defence or regulated engineering environments, with knowledge of ASDEFCON frameworks highly regarded.
• Ability to work proactively and independently, ensuring configuration integrity and compliance across the project lifecycle.

This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian citizen and hold, or be eligible to obtain a NV1 security clearance.

Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.

Pay Range

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Pay And Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.