Lead Mechanical Engineer

Gilmour Space Technologies; Gold Coast City; Presencial; AUD 150.000 - 220.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Gilmour Space Technologies, based in Queensland, is seeking a Lead Mechanical Engineer to drive hardware delivery for rocket programs from concept through integration and verification.

You will mentor engineers, lead cross-disciplinary teams, and ensure safety, quality, and robust design while balancing schedule, cost, and performance requirements in a dynamic space program environment.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• 6+ years in professional mechanical engineering.
• Proven ability to lead complex engineering programs.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Eligibility to obtain an Australian Defence security clearance desirable.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the successful delivery of subsystems, work packages, or major hardware developments.
• Coordinate activities across multidisciplinary teams to achieve objectives.
• Provide engineering leadership and mentor engineers.
• Represent Mechanical Engineering in reviews and program decision-making.
• Develop verification strategies and ensure evidence supports technical decisions.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Systems thinking

Stakeholder management

Technical leadership

Communication

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Herramientas

Systems engineering

Configuration management

Engineering governance

Product development processes

Descripción del empleo

All Orbits, All Planets - Join us on our journey

Gilmour Space is a leading Australian space company, developing launch vehicles, satellite platforms, advanced propulsion technologies; and launching from our licensed orbital spaceport in Bowen, North Queensland.

Are you a creative and experienced 'Lead Mechanical Engineer' looking for a dynamic role where your skills will make a real impact? Have you ever dreamt of working with rockets right here in Australia? Well now’s your chance! Gilmour Space is seeking a talented individual to join our innovative team to send rockets to Space! Conveniently located between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, our new state-of-the-art facility, purpose-built for designing and manufacturing rockets in-house, is equipped with the latest technology and tools, providing an ideal environment for innovation and excellence. So, what are you waiting for? Join us and be a part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of space exploration and let’s send Australia to Space together!

How you will contribute to our mission in getting Australia to space:

The below is designed to give you an idea of the role you will play. There will be many more exciting and innovative things to do:

• Engineering Leadership
• Lead the successful technical delivery of assigned subsystems, engineering work packages, or strategic engineering initiatives.
• Coordinate engineering activities across multidisciplinary teams to achieve agreed technical, schedule, cost, and quality objectives.
• Allocate engineering activities appropriate to team capability, workload, and program priorities.
• Exercise delegated technical authority appropriate to the assigned scope of responsibility.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
• Other duties as required by Management

Technical Delivery:

• Develop and execute engineering delivery strategies that support program objectives.
• Balance technical performance, manufacturability, verification, schedule, cost, safety, and operational requirements throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• Monitor technical progress and proactively resolve delivery risks, technical issues, and engineering constraints.
• Ensure engineering outputs are delivered to the required standard and support successful hardware delivery.

Hardware Development:

• Provide technical leadership throughout concept development, detailed design, manufacture, integration, verification, qualification, and operational support.
• Guide engineering trade studies and major technical decisions affecting subsystem performance.
• Ensure engineering solutions appropriately consider whole-of-system impacts.
• Support complex engineering activities where additional technical capability or leadership is required.

Verification & Validation:

• Develop verification strategies appropriate to subsystem complexity.
• Review and approve engineering analyses, technical reports, verification evidence, and engineering documentation within delegated authority.
• Lead technical investigations into engineering issues, anomalies, failures, and corrective actions.
• Ensure engineering decisions are supported by appropriate technical evidence.

Stakeholder Leadership:

• Build productive working relationships across engineering, manufacturing, operations, quality, supply chain, and program teams.
• Represent Mechanical Engineering during technical reviews, planning activities, integration forums, and program decision-making.
• Communicate technical status, risks, priorities, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Align multidisciplinary engineering teams towards common delivery objectives.

Engineering Capability:

• Mentor Mechanical Engineers and Senior Mechanical Engineers.
• Develop engineering capability through coaching, constructive feedback, and technical leadership.
• Contribute to the development of engineering standards, methods, tools, and best practice.
• Drive continuous improvement across engineering processes and team performance

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• 6 + years of experience in a professional mechanical engineering setting (excluding internships)
• Demonstrated experience leading the successful delivery of complex engineering programs, subsystems, or major hardware developments.
• Proven ability to coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong engineering judgement and systems thinking.
• Demonstrated ability to balance competing technical, schedule, cost, manufacturing, and operational priorities.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
• Eligibility to obtain an Australian Defence security clearance is desirable.

Desired Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Experience acting as a Responsible Engineer, Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or equivalent engineering leadership position.
• Experience delivering complex aerospace or high-reliability hardware.
• Experience leading engineering design reviews and verification activities.
• Working knowledge of systems engineering, configuration management, engineering governance, and product development processes.
• Experience developing engineers through mentoring and coaching.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams through complex technical challenges.

Behavioural Expectations:

The Lead Mechanical Engineer is expected to:

• Lead by example through technical competence, professionalism, and integrity.
• Create clarity, alignment, and direction for engineering teams.
• Empower engineers while maintaining accountability for engineering outcomes.
• Build trust through sound engineering judgement and consistent delivery.
• Develop future engineering leaders through mentoring and coaching.
• Champion safety, quality, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.

Progression within the Lead Mechanical Engineer classification is based on increasing engineering leadership, technical authority, organisational influence, and contribution to strategic engineering capability in accordance with the Mechanical Engineering Career Framework.

Applicants must be an Australian Citizen/Permanent Resident or have an appropriate Australian work visa or work entitlements.

Gilmour Space Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for all positions.