Jobs at KBR, Inc

Supports commercial strategy and contract administration for major government, defence, infrastructure, and engineering projects. Responsibilities include managing claims, variations, delays, subcontract execution, contractual notices, estimates, cost tracking, financial performance, risk mitigation, negotiations, and commercial compliance. The role collaborates with project, legal, procurement, and subcontract teams while contributing to change management, training, procedures, and continuous improvement.

Designs and documents electrical systems for building and infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include engineering studies, calculations, drawings, models, specifications, reports, standards compliance, technical coordination, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, clients, contractors, consultants, and authorities. The role supports new developments, upgrades, and modifications while developing technical capability in a consulting environment.

Provides electrical engineering expertise across high- and low-voltage systems supporting Defence maritime capabilities. Responsibilities include requirements development, design reviews, engineering change and configuration management, systems safety, certification, technical risk assessments, problem resolution, and stakeholder collaboration. The role supports sustainment, capability readiness, and compliance with Navy seaworthiness and regulated engineering frameworks.

Deliver combat management and communications systems engineering services for critical maritime defence capabilities. The role provides technical advice, assesses integration, compatibility and cybersecurity risks, develops engineering tasking, reviews designs, conducts risk assessments and systems verification, and supports engineering change, configuration management, safety and certification activities. The engineer collaborates with Defence stakeholders and external agencies while supporting sustainment, readiness and compliance with Navy seaworthiness and authorised engineering requirements.

Provides mechanical engineering subject matter expertise for ship mechanical and auxiliary systems in a regulated defence environment. Responsibilities include developing engineering tasking, reviewing designs, conducting technical risk assessments, supporting systems safety and certification, verifying problem resolutions, managing engineering variations, and advising stakeholders on sustainment and engineering changes. The role covers seawater, freshwater, oily waste, sewage, HVAC, hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical handling systems.

Supports naval architecture and engineering activities across a defence maritime sustainment program under senior supervision. Responsibilities include hull design, structures, hydrodynamics, stability, engineering change management, configuration management, design reviews, technical risk assessments, certification, safety-case verification, and resolution of engineering variations. The role collaborates with multidisciplinary teams and develops technical advice for supported naval products while building early-career expertise.

Leads growth of KBR’s water-sector business in New South Wales by developing market strategy, managing commercial performance, forecasting workloads, strengthening existing client relationships, winning new business, and ensuring project delivery meets customer and commercial milestones. The role also provides people leadership, builds organizational capability, promotes innovation, and collaborates closely with operations and project teams.

Provides electrical platform systems engineering expertise for Defence sustainment programs. Responsibilities include requirements development, engineering change and configuration management, systems safety, certification, design reviews, verification and validation, technical risk assessment, and stakeholder coordination. The role supports Navy seaworthiness requirements, reviews subcontracted engineering deliverables, leads field-service activities, and provides technical recommendations to the Principal Engineer. A minimum of five years’ experience, professional engineering registration, and active Australian NV1 security clearance are required.

Lead the design and delivery of mechanical building services for complex Defence and secure infrastructure projects. Provide technical leadership across HVAC, ventilation, chilled and heating water systems, automation interfaces, and energy-efficient solutions. Manage technical deliverables, resources, budgets, and programs; ensure compliance with Defence requirements and Australian Standards; engage clients and stakeholders; prepare and review engineering documentation; and mentor engineers and designers throughout multidisciplinary projects.

Provides technical leadership for electrical building services design and delivery across Defence and secure infrastructure projects. Leads multidisciplinary engineering teams from concept through construction and commissioning; oversees electrical systems, project deliverables, budgets, quality, compliance, and stakeholder relationships. Prepares and reviews engineering documentation, mentors engineers and designers, and supports client and contractor engagement.

Supports Defence maritime capabilities under supervision by applying standard mechanical engineering techniques, contributing to engineering change and configuration management, developing design solutions, and collaborating with stakeholders. The role provides exposure to certification management, logistics engineering, systems safety, engineering assurance, and Navy seaworthiness requirements. It includes structured mentorship and development toward Chartered Professional Engineer status.

Lead major infrastructure programs in a client-side environment, overseeing multiple projects across design, procurement, construction, and commissioning. Build high-performing teams, manage stakeholders, risks, budgets, contracts, and delivery outcomes, and ensure projects meet safety, technical, environmental, operational, social, schedule, and cost requirements. The role also involves strategic leadership, business development, innovation, continuous improvement, reporting, and stakeholder alignment across clients, partners, vendors, regulators, and communities.

Lead the creation and delivery of an enterprise innovation and transformation program for a major infrastructure client. Responsibilities include stakeholder alignment, change management, maturity assessments, transformation planning, pilot design and evaluation, Lean improvement, benefits realization, risk and budget management, and transition to business-as-usual. The role also oversees specialist consultants and subject matter experts while ensuring transformation initiatives deliver measurable value.

KBR seeks experienced procurement professionals for upcoming permanent and fixed-term opportunities. Responsibilities may include strategic sourcing, supplier and subcontractor management, contract and commercial management, competitive tendering, procurement governance, spend analysis, cost optimization, supplier performance, process improvement, and digital transformation. Candidates should build stakeholder relationships and provide commercial advice in complex, regulated, or project-based environments. An active Baseline Defence Security Clearance is required.

The Systems Modeller will capture and model complex Defence requirements, perform Mission Engineering, develop MBSE architectures, and ensure integration across lifecycle phases.

Lead and maintain systems safety programs and safety cases for Defence sustainment. Provide safety assurance, risk-based technical advice, support engineering change and design reviews, ensure certification and seaworthiness compliance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders to meet in-service safety obligations.

Deliver cyber security advisory and assurance services for critical infrastructure and transport projects. Responsibilities include risk assessments, threat modeling, security reviews, secure architecture guidance, compliance assessments, remediation roadmaps, assurance reporting, stakeholder presentations, and client engagement. The consultant will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across enterprise, cloud, hybrid, and operational technology environments while supporting cyber security methodologies, proposals, and business growth.

Maritime and coastal engineering professionals will design, assess, and deliver ports, harbours, marine structures, coastal protection, dredging, and resilience projects. Responsibilities include structural analysis, coastal process investigations, numerical modelling, technical documentation, project delivery, stakeholder engagement, and multidisciplinary collaboration. Senior positions additionally provide technical leadership, mentoring, design assurance, project management, client engagement, proposals, and business development.

KBR is looking for experienced defence Commercial professionals for Maritime Sustainment programs. Responsibilities include supporting commercial, contracts, and project controls. Candidates must hold a Negative Vetting 1 Defence Security Clearance.

KBR seeks Expressions of Interest from skilled maritime engineering professionals for diverse roles in defense support of the Royal Australian Navy, particularly in Maritime Sustainment.