Ship Manager

Thales Group; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Medical Insurance

Training opportunities

Discounts (fitness)

Job summary

Thales Group in Australia seeks a Ship Manager to lead maintenance planning and execution for Royal Australian Navy vessels. You will ensure safe, on-time maintenance and manage engineering changes within Commonwealth requirements.

You will coordinate with customers, allocate resources, and drive urgent defect resolutions while upholding safety and quality standards. A defence clearance and Australian citizenship are required.

Qualifications

• Formal qualification in Engineering or Project Management.
• Demonstrated safety leadership at a complex industrial site.
• Experience in planning or execution of production work packages.
• Experience in Ship Building / Ship Repair or similar heavy engineering.
• Australian citizenship or clearable status to obtain Defence clearance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee maintenance management for the assigned ship, ensuring safety, schedule, and cost targets are met.
• Coordinate with customer representatives to ensure work packages achieve operational objectives.
• Plan ship maintenance with sufficient resources (labour, data, equipment, materials).
• Develop detailed work order and maintenance package schedules, identifying critical paths.
• Lead urgent defect rectification with customer alignment on scope and priorities.

Job description

At Thales, we know technology has the ability to make our world more secure, sustainable, and inclusive – and that it’s all driven by human intelligence. Because it takes human intelligence to build and power the systems and solutions that people depend on every day. So we stay curious and make space for diverse points of view. We share what we know and we challenge what’s possible. From manufacturing and engineering to cybersecurity and space, we’re driving progress in some of the world’s most important industries – and working together to build a future we can all trust.

Benefits @ Thales

• Competitive remuneration + Super + Bonus + Free Medical Insurance
• Personal & professional training development opportunities
• Fitness Passport Discount – Access to a network of Gyms across AUS
• Employee discounts with a number of affiliates (Travel, Car hire, Tech, Medical Insurance)
• Modernised Paid Parental Leave
• Veterans Leave
• Novated Lease options
• Family support through our partnership with Parents at Work

The Role: Ship Manager

We have an opportunity for a Ship Manager to join our Ship Repair team based in Garden Island Defence Precinct. You will join our Maintenance Services team, which provides Maintenance Management Services for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). You will oversee the Maintenance Management Services for the assigned Ship, ensuring that all Maintenance (Preventative and Corrective) and incorporation of engineering changes is completed safely within the agreed schedule, cost and Commonwealth technical requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensures the Customer requests for the assigned ship are understood, qualified, prioritised, handed over to the appropriate teams and processed.
• Liaison with the customer representatives to ensure Maintenance Period Work Packages achieve the required operational effectiveness and safety objectives for the ships next tasking.
• Managing the Ship Maintenance Planning to ensure sufficient resources (labour, technical data, equipment and materials) are allocated to meet schedule requirements.
• Manage development of the Ship Maintenance detailed Work Order schedules and Maintenance Period Work Package schedules, understanding the critical path activities and any potential problem areas.
• Management of Urgent Defect (URDEF) rectification, including liaising with Customer representatives to define and agree the scope of URDEF taskings.

Your Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

• Formal qualification in Engineering, Project Management, suitable trade or engineering training and experience or extensive industry experience in related field
• Demonstrated safety leadership at a complex industrial site
• Some exposure to administration in an engineering / manufacturing environment
• Strong communication and negotiation skills with internal and external customers
• Experience in managing planning or execution of production work packages
• Experience in Ship Building / Ship Repair or similar heavy engineering industry and/or civil engineering field

Prior to being offered employment, you will need to complete pre-employment police checks.

As a Defence security clearance is required for this role, applicants must be Australian citizens and eligible to obtain and maintain an appropriate clearance.

We’re committed to supporting a diverse workplace, and that starts here. We’re proud to be endorsed by WORK180 as an Employer for All Women, but we know there’s always more we can do. We’ll continue to foster industry partnerships, employee resource groups (ERGs) and development opportunities to make Thales a genuinely equitable employer, for everyone. Read more about our WORK180 endorsement.

Interested in finding out more about Thales and why you should join us?