ASRV Engineering Manager

Serco is a place where you can grow Join a team of 12,000+ professionals across Asia Pacific (APAC) and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward. Benefits We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunities for career development and advancement
• Supportive and inclusive team culture
• Access to a wide range of employee wellbeing programs
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance
• Government-backed, long-term contract stability

Make an impact at Serco We’re looking for a passionate ASRV Engineering Manager to join our Defence team in Hobart. You’ll play a pivotal role in delivering engineering support to the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), managing a dynamic team and contributing to the operational readiness of the vessel RSV Nuyina. You’ll oversee configuration changes, technical enhancements, and collaboration with subcontractors, ensuring the vessel’s capabilities remain cutting-edge and compliant with statutory and contractual obligations. As an Engineering Manager in the ASRV team, you’ll make a positive impact by:

• Leading engineering support activities in alignment with contract and statutory standards
• Managing capability development, planning, and integration across the vessel
• Overseeing configuration management, modification orders, and procurement support
• Supporting season planning and coordination of port-based engineering works
• Collaborating with Serco, AAD, and subcontractor teams to ensure effective operations
• Contributing technical leadership and guidance for sustainable performance improvements

Serco is a place for youTo Be Successful In This Role You’ll Have

• A degree in Engineering (with at least 10 years’ experience), or a Mechanical Trade (20+ years)
• Extensive experience in commercial shipyard or ship management environments
• Strong understanding of maritime operations and legislation (IMO, SOLAS, MARPOL, ISM, ISPS, Polar Code and Classification Societies etc.)
• Membership of the Engineers Institute of Australia (IE Aust. or an equivalent Engineering Institution)
• Proven leadership skills and experience managing diverse technical teams
• Knowledge in asset management, configuration systems, and risk management practices

Please Note

• This position carries trust and responsibility. To support this, a comprehensive probity assessment, including a National Police Check, is a key part of the selection process for this role.

Are you ready to do important work that really matters? At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges. We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in Health, Defence, Maritime, Justice, Immigration, and Community Services. We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans and people with disability. By joining Serco you’ll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. Impact a better future at Serco.