Systems Engineering Manager

Date Posted: 2025-12-10
Country: Australia
Location: Unit 8, 12 Mars Road, Lane Cove West, NSW 2066 Australia
Position Role Type: Unspecified

About the Role

Leadership career opportunity with the world's largest Aerospace and Defence company. New role developing a team of experienced engineering professionals to deliver outcomes. Join a friendly and collaborative team, site-based at Lane Cove West, NSW.

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, in this new career opportunity as Systems Engineering Manager, you will work as a hands-on leader, both leading and contributing to a team of experienced engineering professionals. You and your team will ensure the quality and standards of work achieved in the delivery of systems engineering services are precise, timely and dedicated to meeting our company and Australian defense program requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: model leadership behaviours to grow and develop your team - supporting their career development, as they work to meet project and customer requirements aligned with our company Values.
• Subject Matter Expert: apply your systems engineering expertise to deliver timely project outcomes; delivering superior quality of technical documentation to produce clear and concise content to meet required engineering and client standards.
• Resource Management: Regularly review capabilities, performance, capacity, process, and system requirements against current and future needs, to identify and address gaps in conjunction with the management of the departmental budget.
• Innovation: Lead and champion the development of new engineering practices, plans, techniques and technologies, systems and processes to deliver continuous improvement.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Work collaboratively and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders to influence and ensure that programs are delivered on time and in full. Plan and deliver associated products and services to meet assigned objectives.
• Exemplify Leadership: by example, as a technical contributor, produces engineering work of a high standard to meet project parameters; in a professional and collaborative manner.

Essential Skills & Competencies

• Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Science degree or other applicable Degree
• Prior technical leadership of engineering projects that involve product development across the broad spectrum of complex systems, including full system integration
• Proven ability and experience representing the company as a technical expert across all stakeholder environments, including formal and informal presentations at both frontline and senior executive levels
• Proven background and experience mentoring, supporting and leading a team; making programmatic and technical decisions with accuracy and within set timeframes

Desirable Skills & Competencies

• Experience and knowledge of command, control and communications systems in a Defence environment
• Experience involving tactical data links will be highly regarded
• An experienced systems engineer, with proven background involving the entirety of systems development processes, including requirements capture, design, decomposition, integration, and verification/validation, as well as transition to production
• Familiarity with engineering development in an agile and DEVSECOPS environment

Requirements

Successful candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain an Australian Defence Security Clearance (NV1 standing); eligibility can be found at http://www.defence.gov.au/agsva

This position requires Australian Citizenship and eligibility to be certified compliant with US ITAR technology access requirements.

How to Apply

Apply online at https://careers.rtx.com/global/en/collins-aerospace with your Cover Letter and CV, or apply directly via the link on this page.

About Collins Aerospace

When you join Collins Aerospace (a business of RTX), you will be joining a team dedicated to working on some of the most unique challenges in global aerospace and defence. We work side-by-side with our customers and partners to create, design and deliver solutions that redefine the future.

Collins Aerospace is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.