Job Description

• Join a specialised maritime engineering team delivering a critical project within the defence sector.

• Opportunity to lead coordination and progress across an international project team.

• Work on complex maritime platform and shipbuilding programs with significant national importance.

We’rea ‘Family Friendly’ certified workplace – we understand the diverse roles our team members need to play within their own unique family setting and actively support them.

Do Work That Matters

Gibbs & Cox Australia (GCA) provides world-leading naval and marine engineeringexpertisefor Australia's maritime enterprise. Our vision is a vibrant, sustainable, sovereign Australian shipbuilding,designand maritime enterprise.

GCA is a subsidiary of Leidos Gibbs & Cox, an international leader in naval ship design, providing naval engineering and design services on a range of major combatant and surface autonomy programs. Gibbs & Cox has a proud history of excellence, serving naval, government, commercial, and private marine clients since 1929. GCA leverages support from Gibbs & Cox's international network ofexpertiseto offer world's best practice in naval ship design and engineering.

In Australia, weoperatea select, highly skilled, internationally diverse engineering team, providing engineering and design advisory services to Australia's naval programs, and maritime autonomy system development. Our team holdsexpertiseacross naval architecture, marine engineering, systems engineering, integratedlogisticssupport, engineeringconsultingand acquisition program management.

Your New Role and Responsibilities

• Lead planning, coordination, and delivery activities for a critical maritime engineering project, ensuring milestones and deliverables are achieved.

• Coordinate work across multidisciplinary and international project teams,maintainingprogress, communication, and alignment.

• Manage project schedules, risks, and stakeholder engagement to support effective project execution.

• Support delivery within a Defence project framework, ensuring compliance with ASDEFCON and project governance requirements.

WhatYou’llBring to Makean Impact

• Project management capability, including planning, scheduling, risk management, and delivery oversight.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills to work effectively across technical and international teams.

• Ability to work independently and drive outcomes while managing competing priorities.

• Well-developed coordination and leadership skills to ensure project milestones and deliverables are achieved.

• Canberra or Newcastle based.

Don’tworry if youdon’ttick all the boxes – if you meet most of them, we encourage you tosubmityour application.We’remost interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go.

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen andhold a baseline security clearance andwilling to obtain and hold a NV-1 or greater security clearance.

Diverse Team Members, SharedValuesand a Common Purpose

Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values.It'sabout creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase – Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.

Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+)provide an opportunity for team membersto connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.

Next Steps

• To apply for this role, follow the links or apply via our Careers page.

• Recruitment process - 1 – 2 interviews & background checks including a police check.

• Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.

• We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please contact our Careers team careers.au@au.leidos.com ifyou’dlike to discuss anyadditionalsupport during your application or throughout the recruitment process.

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Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.