Engineering Manager | Software and Systems

Hexagon Mining, Inc.; Perth; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hexagon Mining is seeking an Engineering Manager to build and lead a high-performing software engineering team focused on mining autonomy and data solutions. You will align product goals with technical strategy and mentor engineers across multiple geographies.

You will own delivery quality, governance, and long-term health of the platform, collaborate with Product Management, and drive organizational health through coaching, recruitment, and robust engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Strong written and oral English communication skills.
• Engineering leadership experience (people leadership, technical leadership, project leadership, or a combination).
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with complex, long-lived, customer-facing products.
• Strong knowledge of modern software engineering practices, architecture, design, testing, DevOps, and delivery processes.

Responsibilities

• Guide technical direction for the product, architecture, and delivery.
• Mentor contributors and support design decisions to deliver technically sound outcomes.
• Collaborate with Product Management to understand customer problems and deliver valuable solutions.
• Own outcomes including scope, schedule, and quality; ensure governance, documentation, and development practices.

Skills

English communication

Engineering leadership

Software engineering

DevOps

Job description

Hexagon is the global leader in measurement technologies. We provide the confidence that vital industries rely on to build, navigate, and innovate.

The Company: Hexagon Autonomous Solution’s specifically delivers mining, autonomy, and high-precision positioning solutions that enable autonomous operations. Our product portfolio empowers customers to operate with confidence in challenging environments.

Hexagon Mining: Hexagon’s Mining business area connects measurement and autonomy across surface and underground operations, pushing the boundaries of autonomous technology and data insights to help customers optimize resources and move material safely.

Purpose of Position:

The purpose of the Engineering Manager role is to build and lead a high-performing engineering team that delivers valuable, technically sound solutions for Hexagon Mining customers. The Engineering Manager role serves as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI), or as a delegated leader reporting to a DRI, for a defined product, platform, or technology area, with accountability for its long-term health and evolution. The role combines formal people management with technical leadership, including performance management, coaching, talent development, recruitment, succession planning, engineering governance, and team culture.

Major Areas of Responsibility:

The Engineering Manager is sufficiently familiar with the product, codebase, architecture, quality concerns, delivery constraints, and customer problems to guide technical direction, support design decisions, validate estimates, mentor contributors, and help the team deliver technically sound outcomes.

The role collaborates with Product Management and other functions to understand customer and business problems, and deliver solutions that are valuable, usable, technically sound, maintainable, and supportable.

The Engineering Manager has direct accountability for outcomes including:

• The successful delivery of agreed project outcomes, including scope, schedule, and quality
• The technical health, quality, governance, documentation, and development practices of the team's product, platform, or technology area
• The health, growth, and performance of the team and its individual contributors
• The Engineering Manager also contributes to:
  • Strong working relationships between Engineering, Product Management, Operations, Sales, and other functions
  • A healthy engineering culture across teams and geographies
  • The evolution of the Hexagon Mining technology platform
  • Customer outcomes and the commercial success of the products and solutions the team supports

Knowledge and Experience - Required:

• Strong written and oral English communication skills
• Engineering leadership experience, such as people leadership, technical leadership, project leadership, or a combination of these
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably with complex, long-lived, customer-facing products
• Strong technical knowledge of modern software engineering practices, architecture, design, testing, DevOps, and delivery processes

Knowledge and Experience - Desired:

• Experience working with hybrid software-hardware systems, e.g. robotics, automotive, industrial automation, etc.
• Experience working with complex products, legacy systems, hardware and software integration, and/or large-scale technical debt reduction
• Specialized technical knowledge in a relevant domain, e.g robotics, automotive, GNSS, optimization;, data science, or similar domains
• Familiarity with engineering delivery, quality, and organizational health metrics
• Experience leading organizational change and scaling engineering teams