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About the role

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced Senior/Lead Mechanical Engineer to join a high performing SME and work on products across the full life cycle from design through to manufacturing and in-service support, all at one state of the art facility. This role offers exposure to a diverse and technically interesting product range spanning mechanical, electrical, chemical and software disciplines, with opportunities to work directly with the end-users of the products.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Leading end-to-end mechanical engineering activities, including design, development, manufacturing support, and technical governance/authorisation.
• Providing technical advice and engineering authorisation in accordance with company Engineering Authorisation processes;
• Driving product quality and performance by investigating issues, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing corrective actions.
• Working closely with customers, suppliers and internal teams to define requirements, support production, and lead design reviews and risk assessments.
• Leading continuous improvement initiatives or studies, including product, process, and reliability improvements;
• Providing mentoring and development to engineers across multiple disciplines, supporting capability growth within the engineering function;
• Collaborating with Project Managers and other stakeholders to develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and resource allocations.
• Leading the delivery of engineering components of projects;

The successful candidate will possess the following qualifications, skills and experience: 

• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering (Mechanical or equivalent)
• Demonstrated experience across a range of mechanical engineering focused fields, design, product development, reliability, manufacturing, logistics.
• Understanding of a range of non-technical business considerations such as customer satisfaction, financial, commercial and risk
• Ability to lead small projects, investigations and teams to achieve an outcome
• Experience supporting manufacturing, production, or industrial environments
• Ability to mentor junior engineers
• Excellent problem solving, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong  verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical information to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to project delivery or project management activities
• Experience in defence or defence-related systems engineering environments (desirable)

Prerequisites

• Be eligible to successfully obtain and maintain a NV1 Australian Defence Security Clearance (must be an Australian Citizen)

• Hold a current driver’s licence.

• Ability to obtain a current police clearance.

• Ability to pass a pre-employment medical and Drug & Alcohol screen.

• Ability to travel occasionally interstate and overseas for work and training purposes.

• Undertake six monthly lead in blood testing

• Paid parental leave

• PMB branded clothing allowance

• Discounted banking and insurance

• Free barista style coffee, tea and daily fresh fruit

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