Job ID: 01799982

Date Posted:

2025-10-12

Country:

Australia

Location:

AUSNSW113: Nowra NSW, 39 Wugan Street, Yerriyong, Nowra, NSW, 2540, Australia

Position Role Type:

Unspecified

• Support Australia’s defence mission
• Demonstrate leadership while continually learning
• Flexible work opportunities and a supportive culture

Your mission starts here at Raytheon Australia!

Right now, we are seeking a bright and energised Technical Support Engineer.

Join our team of outstanding people with expertise across a wide variety of disciplines and position yourself at the forefront of tomorrow’s capabilities.

In return, we will support you with access to best practice tools, systems and processes while continually investing in your growth by providing tailored learning and development opportunities.

Start your mission in a career filled with extraordinary opportunities for learning, mentoring and professional development. We offer flexible work and career growth backed by global expertise and a supportive culture.

This is your opportunity to join a fast-moving company that works on interesting and unique projects to support Australia’s defence mission and contribute to the critical outcomes of the Australian Defence Force.

The role

• Raytheon Australia an exciting opportunity for an experienced Technical Support Engineer to join our Joint Adversarial Training & Testing Services (JATTS) Program located in the Shoalhaven region near Nowra NSW. JATTS provides operational training against live aerial opposing forces (red air), airborne Electronic Warfare and aerial targets.
• Raytheon Australia has been providing airborne adversarial Electronic Warfare (EW) training for Australian Defence Force warfare and command teams since 2001. We deliver this capability using highly modified special mission Learjet 35A aircraft configured to simulate real-world airborne EW threats in differing electromagnetic environments across all combat domains.
• Our team is diversely skilled and responsible for providing real world airborne simulation involving sophisticated EW system training, test, experimentation and evaluation trials, systems certification, radar jamming and deception, communications denial and deception and radar threat simulation to the Royal Australian Air Force, Royal Australian Navy and other Australian Defence assets.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the Engineering Services organisation comprising of an Avionics, Aero/Mech and Maintenance Engineering teams, monitoring performance and supporting professional development.
• Provide effective governance and oversight to the engineering departmental leaders and other program team to ensure all services are appropriately monitored and supported IAW the Engineering Management System.
• Manage the execution of Program plans while maintaining day-to-day safety and operations of the Program.
• Develop and maintain various engineering plans/procedures to meet both internal and customer requirements.
• Leadership of technical reviews and audits within the Program as well as planning, estimating, resourcing and scheduling of engineering tasks.
• Support engineering changes according to company and program procedures.
• Identify and escalate program risks using defined processes.
• Deliver on contracted outcomes to meet or exceed financial targets.
• Monitor and report on program metrics to address potential KPI and OPM performance issues before they impact contractual targets.

Skills, experience and qualifications

• Requires a university degree in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or other relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience managing technical teams.
• Ability to establish key elements of tactical and operational plans toward achieving short- to medium-term organisational results and aligned with the long-term business strategy.
• Demonstrated experience in decision making, planning and establishing goals with direct impact on operational results.
• Excellence in time management task prioritisation, and ability to maintain stability of performance under pressure.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain Australian Government (Defence) Security Clearance up to Negative Vetting Level 1.
• Experience in either aviation Flight Operations, Maintenance / Design and Aviation Safety Management under CASA and / or DASA regulatory environments, is highly desirable.
• Practical project management knowledge and experience is highly desirable.
• Successful candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a NV1 Security clearance as needed. Eligibility can be found at http://www.defence.gov.au/agsva

This is your opportunity to join the brightest minds in the nation working for the mission on leading-edge technology to deliver Australia’s most significant defence capabilities.

If you are looking to contribute to the mission that matters, click apply now or contact us at careers@raytheon.com.au.

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