As the Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving our organization's transformation towards true DevOps practices, ensuring quality and safety is built into our Digital Engineering practices.

Your primary responsibility will be to lead and oversee the Quality Engineering function. Ensure that all aspects of quality assurance, including engineering practices around unit testing\integration testing, functional UI testing, performance, security quality assurance processes are consolidated into a cohesive and efficient practice to ship our Digital products faster and safer to production.

You will be instrumental in integrating quality engineering practices seamlessly into our development pods and deployment chain, enabling us to deliver high-quality software products to our customers faster and more reliably. Key to your success will be your ability to lead and inspire a team of quality engineers and developers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

By championing best practices in quality engineering and driving strategic initiatives, you will be at the forefront of our journey towards Digital excellence in digital engineering and digital product delivery.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop and communicate a comprehensive quality strategy aligned with the goals and objectives of the Digital Engineering teams and business lines. incorporating modern Digital engineering, cloud-native development methodologies and best practices.
• Lead and mentor a team of quality engineers and testing professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning to support the delivery of high-quality digital products.
• Inspire the broader Digital engineering community to take ownership in quality as part of their day to day development activities.
• Establish and optimise quality assurance processes and methodologies, including QE automation frameworks, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and modern testing techniques (e.g., shift-left testing, behaviour-driven development, AppSec, Load testing etc).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate quality engineering practices seamlessly into the DevOps pipeline and DevOps ways of working. Ensure that quality is built into every stage of the software development lifecycle.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies for digital products, encompassing functional, non-functional (performance, security), and usability testing, and leveraging automation to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance quality engineering processes, tools, and practices, staying abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to introduce innovative solutions that improve product quality and delivery speed.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, including product owners, developers, designers, and senior leadership, to ensure alignment on quality objectives and priorities, and communicate progress, outcomes, and challenges related to quality engineering initiatives.
• Identify and mitigate quality-related risks, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, security standards, and industry best practices, and implement processes and controls to monitor and manage risks effectively.
• Evaluate and select appropriate testing tools and technologies and manage relationships with vendors to ensure that the team has access to the necessary resources and support to execute quality engineering activities effectively.

Baird is seeking a motivated and personable engineering or science student to join our team as an Intern in our Sydney office. The selected candidate will be involved with various analysis and design aspects associated with marine, coastal, and port engineering projects. This position will support multiple offices worldwide.

It is anticipated the candidate will participate in the following project activities:

• Working under supervising professional engineers, the candidate will:
  • Perform data analyses of metocean and environmental data.
  • Develop and apply skills in numerical modelling of coastal processes.
  • Participate in field data collection.
  • Assist with the preparation of project deliverables including technical reports, calculations, cost estimates, and drawings.
  • Undertake other duties as assigned.

Rest’s Data, Technology and Delivery (DTD) business unit is accountable for planning and preparing the organisation for the future through strategic technology innovation, as well as charting our business strategy and executing for today and tomorrow.

The Product Engineering Manager will oversee and lead software development engineers responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimising Rest’s mobile app, web portals and all customer facing digital capabilities, ensuring API development standards are followed along with security and compliance policies. The Product Engineering Manager plays a crucial role in providing guidance and technical leadership to the development of API and frontend functions in the product teams.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Ensure all changes to APIs are developed following the API platform team standards, this includes branching strategy, and right controls and checks in CI/CD pipelines that enforce and verify compliance with how APIs should be built, tested, deployed and operated. 
• Implement security best practices in the SDLC of API to protect sensitive data and transactions. Ensure compliance with regulatory standards as well as standards set by platform teams including managing APIs access and authentication. 
• Oversee the release process for product API in every stage. Have contingency plans in place to address potential deployment failures or disruptions. Drive culture of zero-downtime deployments. 
• Enforce coding standards, testing practices, and documentation guidelines to ensure front end components and API are robust, well-tested, and well-documented to minimise the risk of bugs and vulnerabilities. 
• Collaborate closely with solution architects, product owners and engineers to define scalable, reliable, and efficient API that meet product needs, while also assessing potential security and performance risks. 
• Oversee the entire SDLC of APIs and frontend components, including versioning, deprecation, and sunsetting of relevant APIs as well as secure practices for frontend code. 
• Manage a team of engineers, providing guidance, mentorship and goals and performance review. Foster professional growth of team members through career development, training and skill-building opportunities. 
• Drive initiatives to introduce observability and monitoring best practices. Monitor and optimise product APIs performance, stability, and reliability to handle increased traffic and usage, proactively addressing bottlenecks and issues 
• Identify, assess, and prioritise risks associated with API development, deployment, and maintenance, and develop proactive strategies and controls to mitigate these risks aiming at minimising end product exposure. 
• Stay up to date with industry trends, new technologies, and best practices to continuously improve product APIs and drive innovation. Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the team, encouraging learning and skill development 

The Commercial Products team manages a fleet of custom-built systems and third party product integrations  that perform critical functions for our Sales Operations, Traffic, Finance, Programming and Presentation teams, which make it possible for us to sell and traffic ads into our linear broadcasts schedules. In other words, our systems are core business critical systems that manage all revenue associated with broadcast.

You’ll be leading an organisation made up of 4 squads, each with its own engineering manager, software engineers, quality engineers, and iteration manager. The immediate focus of the role will be on the continued improvement and scalability/reliability of existing systems, longer term you’ll contribute to building the next-gen of Nine’s sales, advertising management, and revenue systems. 

At Nine Technology we strive for People and Engineering excellence and culture in the way we deliver on our work. As a senior technology leader you’ll have the opportunity to not only lead your teams in the way they effectively operate and deliver but you’ll be a leader helping Nine to continuously evolve and grow its Product and Engineering culture and capabilities. 

Role responsibilities

• Ensure scope and architectural directions are clear for products and ensure smooth roll-out and integration of projects
• Lead a technical team, working to guide and grow technically strong individuals, being able to give them acute feedback to help them in their technical challenges, whilst still giving them freedom to innovate their own ideas
• Work with engineering leadership to identify opportunities to improve practices and processes around engineering and delivery, and assist with the implementation and upkeep of these practices
• Work closely with Product Management on continuous improvements to existing systems, with a focus on improved reliability, performance, and efficiency.
• Lead development and maintain a strategy to deliver on business goals via system improvements, new functionality and platforms.
• Being involved and helping to coach and mentor teams delivering in Agile
• Ability to plan, organise and lead teams to deliver consistently on project and release commitments.
• Manage 3rd party partners, commercials, contracts and budgets. Ensure contract commitments are met.
• Ability to manage key senior business stakeholder relationships to ensure a  successful technology partnership
• Support development of business cases to further business improvements
• Responsible for developing technology investments business cases. 
• Work with engineering leadership to identify opportunities to improve practices and processes around engineering and delivery, and assist with the implementation and upkeep of these practices
• Help develop and maintain a strategy to deliver on business goals via system improvements and new functionality
• Support production systems - we believe in 'you build it, you support it'.
• Manage overall team and vendor budgets to target.

Job Description

Reporting to the Site Manager, the Engineering Maintenance Manager is a critical leadership role responsible for the operation and maintenance of all industrial plant and equipment, installations design and upgrade changes.

The key focus of the role is to support Safety, Quality, Production, Continuous Improvement through condition and TPM functions that underpin OEE improvement, inclusive of contractor management, participation and lead where required in project management improvement projects. This role is key for developing the Villawood engineering team.

As the Engineering and Maintenance Manager at our Villawood site you will be self-driven with a strong ability to “get things done” safely and effectively, you will uplift capability across the site to ensure and embed a culture of continuous improvement whilst maintaining the highest safety standards.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Schedule, supervise and progress the condition and preventative maintenance practices and schedules to efficiently support the production line equipment and supporting services of the manufacturing process to minimise production downtime.
• Coordinate the requirements for new equipment designs, surveys and maintenance schedules to applicable Australian Standards
• Co-ordinate all contractor support, services and maintenance activity inclusive of cost and quote establishment, induction completion, JSEA completion and other risk assessments
• Lead discussion and implementation on engineering design upgrade improvements.
• Play an active part in highlighting to Site Manager areas for reducing production costs such as waste, setup time etc.
• Maintain critical spare parts inventory.
• Lead team and contractors with focus on safety and regular participation in hazard identification and WHSE campaigns that actively drive a culture of behavioural safety.
• promote improvements to safety systems in use on all equipment and production lines
• Continue development of team and carryout regular Toolbox Talk meetings on Safety and Quality.

Your skills and experience

• Solid experience in a Maintenance team leadership role within a 24/7 manufacturing environment.
• Understanding of OEE, Root Cause Analysis and TPM operations
• Familiar with MEX CMMS maintenance operating system (preferred)
• Familiar with SAP system (preferred)
• Positive record in developing engineering teams.
• Highly developed Safety awareness and ability to drive a safety before production culture.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and an ability to improve plant manufacturing processes.
• Track record of cost improvement delivery.
• Results driven with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Well-developed, effective and collaborative interpersonal skills.
• Lead effectively in a team environment to drive performance.
• Written & verbal communication skills.
• Critical information seeking and analytical ability to fault find and diagnose problems.
• Influencing skills
• Personal drive and results-orientation.