Talent Acquisition Partner

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR electronic warfare secure communications aerial refuelling special air missions aerial firefighting and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing building and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service spanning people finance platform operations legal and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas EMEA and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects not just equipment. By owning the full stack from the lab to the field we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. Its a fast-moving intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility work on problems that matter and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington DC with facilities across the United States the United Kingdom as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

GroupOverview

Metrea is actively building its presence in Australia as part of a deliberate globally coordinated expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. Our Asia-Pacific Market Group headquartered in Brisbane with an additional office in Perth is the enterprises dedicated regional interface connecting Australias national security community with Metreas full suite of capabilities across three core domains: Aerospace Electromagnetic & Cyber and Digital & Synthetic. Metrea is now bringing that same depth of mission expertise and proven operating model to Australia. You would be joining a small but hands on People Team which will help scale the broader Australian team significantly in the coming months and years.

Position Summary

This role is the first dedicated Talent Acquisition lead in Australia responsible for building and delivering end-to-end recruitment capability across all domains including Aviation Technical Enterprise and Market Development. As a hands-on player-coach you will lead hiring execution while shaping the recruitment function bringing structure market insight and disciplined sourcing to support both current operations and future growth. A keycomponentof the role is partneringtoprovide talent intelligence build forward-looking pipelines and support workforce readiness fornew programsand market entry initiatives.

This role is critical to enablingMetreasgrowth in Australia. If this challenge excites you we would love to hear from you.

What Youll Do

End-to-End Recruitment Delivery

• Own and deliver full-cycle recruitment across aviation technical enterprise and leadership roles
• Drive high-quality hiring outcomes in a low-volume high-complexity environment
• Manage sourcing screening process design offer negotiation and closing

Market Development & Workforce Readiness

• Build proactive pipelines for critical and hard-to-find roles ahead of demand
• Provide talent intelligence including market mapping competitor insights and availability of key skill sets

Talent Strategy & Function Build

• Establish scalable recruitment practices tools and rhythms aligned withMetreasglobal standards
• Introduce disciplined sourcing pipeline management and hiring tracking
• Support employer brand development within the Australian defence and aviation market

Stakeholder Partnership

• Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and leaders
• Challenge hiring assumptions and guide decision-making using market insight and data
• Align hiring activity with workforce planning and operational priorities

Candidate Experience & Representation

• Deliver a high-quality transparent and professional candidate experience
• RepresentMetreasmissionfirmware and operating model effectively to candidates
• Build long-term relationships within key talent communities

What You Bring

• Rooted in Humility: You value the universal over the personal. Maximising what you know skeptically filtering what you believe you know and further limiting what you project to know
• 58 years recruitment experience across complex or technical environments
• Demonstrated experience hiring across multiple functions (e.g. aviation technical G&A)
• Familiarity with a wide range of domain-specific talent markets including key talent pools and industry strong sourcing capability and ability to build pipelines from scratch
• Experienceoperatingin ambiguous or build-phase environments
• Ability to engage senior stakeholders and influence hiring decisions
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build trust credibility and influence stakeholders and candidates alike
• Familiarity with a wide range of domain-specific talent markets including key talent pools and industry trends
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced complex environment collaborating with multiple stakeholders across different teams and time zones
• Ability to obtain and maintain Australian baseline security clearance

In addition to the above any of the following would be beneficial:

• Experience in defence aviation or adjacent regulated industries
• Exposure to workforce planning or supporting growth / bids
• Experience building or scaling a recruitment function
• Familiarity with Australian talent markets particularly defence and aviation

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Generous PTO
• Annual incentive plan
• Paid parental leave
• Life and disability insurance
• Income Protection Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Novated Car Leasing

WorkAuthorization/SecurityClearance

Ability to obtain and maintain an AGSVA Security Clearance.

Inclusion Statement

We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds experiences and perspectives. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and make hiring decisions based on capability potential and alignment with our values. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process please let us know.

Travel

Domestic travel within Australia and occasional International travel (UK/US).