Topside Engineer (Senior) – Hunter Class Frigates

at  Lockheed Martin Australia

ABOUT US:

Lockheed Martin is a dynamic, growing, and energetic organisation offering stimulating, challenging work at the forefront of technology. Lockheed Martin is a leader in Australia’s National Security, and our collaboration with Australian industry spans the Aeronautics, Maritime, Surveillance and Defence domains.
We are all about developing and growing talent and empowering our people to be the best they can be. We provide a supportive and agile environment and diverse career opportunities with meaningful work. We provide genuine work life balance with options to suite everyone.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

Applicants are required to be Australian Citizens and hold a current or re-instatable NV1 Defence Security Clearance. Employment may be contingent on the satisfactory result of criminal and/or other background screens, which require the collection and transfer of personal information.

This is an excellent opportunity to work on the Hunter Class Frigate (HCF) program, Australia’s biggest surface combatant ship project to date. This role offers location flexibility and can be based either in Osborne, SA or Melbourne CBD.
The HCF Topside Engineer will support the Topside Lead in the engineering development of a fully integrated topside design as per the allocated functional and physical requirements.

Major tasks and activities of this role will be:

• Working with the Topside Lead to evolve the physical arrangement of Combat System (CS) equipment on the Upper Decks such that it is safe, operable, maintainable and effective
• Developing and maintaining a derived set of Topside Performance Requirements that encapsulates all externally mounted CS equipment
• Liaising with the Systems and Transverse Team – in Australia and UK – who are responsible for executing HCF topside analyses
• Liaising with the Electromagnetic & Environmental Effects (E3) Modelling Team to ensure that analyses are executed in support of internal Topside need dates & external HCF Program schedule milestones
• Reviewing and endorsing the veracity of the E3 and non-E3 modelling results and approving the documenting of the Topside performance characteristics and associated attributes
• Ensuring that Platform (3D model), Combat System (Topside Items List) and the General Arrangement (GA) are all congruent and managed under configuration control
• Contributing to impact assessments of Product Change affecting Topside elements