Role Title: Technical Manager – Diving and Hyperbaric
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Caringbah, Australia
The Role:
As the Technical Manager – Diving and Hyperbaric, you will be responsible for delivering safe, innovative diving and hyperbaric solutions across the full technical/engineering lifecycle. The role manages a multidisciplinary team, oversees technical outputs, and ensures engineering activities meet safety, quality, cost, and compliance requirements while supporting major commercial and defence projects.
What you’ll be doing:
- Leading the Technical/Engineering department in alignment with JFD strategic objectives and regulatory frameworks.
- Managing engineering capacity planning, resourcing, budgeting, and technical partnerships.
- Overseeing engineering outputs across safety, quality, cost, operability, and supportability requirements.
- Controlling engineering schedules, budgets, and reporting deliverables.
What we’re looking for:
- Degree qualified in a relevant engineering discipline.
- Hold an Engineering Australia Registration (or equivalent).
- Demonstrated experience in a technical management role within the Subsea, Defence or Maritime sector.
- Excellent leadership skills with the ability to coach and mentor.
- Strong understanding of product design and/or design integration of engineering systems.
- Experienced in technical risk and mitigation management.
- Experience setting and delivering medium- and long-term strategies, budget and resource plans
- Must be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance
Why join us?
- Join a team of people who are passionate about their job.
- Opportunity to expand the role and obtain new skills and experience.
- Contribute to a growing and successful business with an exciting order book.
- Wellbeing programs – employee assistance program to support you and your immediate family with counselling and support as needed.
- Flexible working arrangements, including a condensed working week to support a half day every Friday.
- Generous paid community service leave to support your local community or serve as a defence reservist.
- Weekly fruit baskets to keep hunger at bay on busy days.
- Free on-site parking.
- Novated car leasing options available.
- Paid Parental Leave Scheme
About Us:
JFD is the world leading underwater capability provider, serving the commercial and defence markets with innovative diving, submarine and hyperbaric rescue, technical solutions and services.
Operating worldwide, the company is the world’s leading provider of submarine rescue capability and an established provider of submarine escape training. The company is at the forefront of Hyperbaric Rescue, along with being the leading supplier of commercial and defence diving equipment and saturation diving systems to the commercial industry.
We pride ourselves on the quality of the products and solutions we supply and our close work with our customers to ensure that our products remain safe and reliable in the most challenging subsea environments. The key to building and maintaining our world class reputation is the recruitment and retention of the very best people.
JFD is part of the broader James Fisher Group which provides a wider range of maritime engineering and logistic products and services to industries including oil and gas; renewables; and maritime transportation.
Visit our website at: JFD Global
For more information about our values and behaviours, follow the link: About us | James Fisher and Sons plc
How to apply
- Applicants must have existing Australian work rights.
- Any offer of employment will be subject to a preemployment health screen which includes a drug and alcohol screening.
- Veterans are encouraged to apply!
Due to the volume of applications we receive for our vacancies, on occasion applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
James Fisher and Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and strongly encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.