Armaments & Explosive Ordnance Engineer
- Specialist role requiring ship-borne or land-based explosive ordnance magazine certification experience
- Permanent Full-Time | Up to $175k package
- Canberra-based | Remote considered for the right candidate
- Current NV1 security clearance required
Take on a specialist engineering role focused on the integration, certification and safety assurance of armaments and explosive ordnance systems within a complex maritime acquisition environment.
You’ll provide technical authority across design assurance, certification, engineering governance and acceptance activities, with a particular focus on explosive ordnance magazines, ammunition storage systems and associated platform integration.
The Role
As an Armaments & Explosive Ordnance Engineer, you’ll act as a specialist SME across armaments and EO integration, working with multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure technical, safety and regulatory requirements are met.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing specialist engineering advice across armaments, explosive ordnance and magazine integration
- Conducting technical assessments, design reviews, design acceptance and certification activities
- Supporting the certification and safety assurance of ship-borne and land-based EO magazines
- Reviewing engineering deliverables and supporting hazard, risk, verification and validation activities
- Contributing to engineering governance, technical baselines, configuration management and assurance documentation
About You
We’re particularly interested in:
- A degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronic Engineering or a related discipline
- Demonstrated experience with ship-borne or land-based magazine certification
- Experience across armaments, explosive ordnance, weapons systems or ammunition storage
- Experience within maritime acquisition, shipbuilding, sustainment, land systems or other complex engineering programs
- Experience supporting relevant Defence engineering environments and stakeholders
- A current NV1 security clearance or higher
- Experience exercising Delegated Technical Authority, working within an Authorised Engineering Organisation (AEO), or holding/working towards CPEng would be highly regarded.
Why Consider the Opportunity?
This is a niche technical role with genuine engineering authority and influence across safety, certification and integration outcomes.
You’ll work across the full assurance lifecycle, from design assessment and technical governance through to certification and acceptance, while applying specialist magazine and EO knowledge in a complex maritime environment.
Interested?
Click APPLY to send through your resume. If your experience aligns, I’ll be in touch to talk you through the opportunity, provide further context on the role and working environment, and discuss next steps.
For a confidential discussion, contact Jaela Smith at Talent International on 0480 806 146 or jaela.smith@talentinternational.com.