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. It's 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.
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 enterprise's dedicated regional interface — connecting Australia's national security community with Metrea's 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.
Underpinning these capabilities is a global network of Support Groups spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement — ensuring that as we grow in Australia, we do so with the full weight of an established global enterprise behind us.
Metrea's solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving — enabling our partners to scale capacity and achieve asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
The Infrastructure & Facilities Manager plays a pivotal role in ensuring that the physical technical infrastructure and facilities on our operating bases are established to meet contract timelines and that they are managed effectively, in accordance with Australian safe-ty regulations and applicable specific contract security arrangements. The role is pivotal to establishing and sustaining operational services and the mission readiness that under-pins Metrea’s airborne ISR Program.
This new role is responsible for planning, setting up, and maintaining the infrastructure, facilities, and services that support operational activities, including in remote locations. It involves coordinat-ing site development, managing subcontractors, ensuring compliance with operational, safety, and security standards, and overseeing on-site security where required.
The position also manages essential services such as fuel, transportation, utilities, and logistics support to enable the movement and sustainment of equipment and materials. Once operations are established, the focus shifts to ongoing maintenance, service delivery, and contract oversight. Strong project execution skills and knowledge of relevant safety, security, and operational support requirements are essential.
- Develop and implement Infrastructure Support Plans detailing the methodology for establishing and maintaining an operating base, detailing the selected approach, the resources required, and the risks and costs involved
- Oversee the establishment of physical infrastructure including fuel, utilities, ground handling, consumables supply, and security systems. Manage the schedule and dependencies for facility commissioning, ensuring readiness for inspection and accreditation
- Act as site lead for physical security compliance in accordance with security management plans and the Australian government Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF)
- Once established, oversee the ongoing management of facilities including maintenance, security, and the coordination, with ILS managers, of logistics support to operations. This may include management responsibilities for logistics coordinators, facility supervisors, and subcontracted maintenance staff
- Liaise with Commonwealth representatives, airport authorities, and subcontractors to ensure uninterrupted operations and compliance with security and regulatory requirements. Support emergency response, safety, and incident management procedures
- Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Engineering, Facilities Management, or a related technical discipline. Equivalent Defence or aviation logistics experience considered
- Minimum 7–10 years’ experience in Defence, aerospace, or government logistics or infrastructure programs
- Proven success establishing and managing multiple operational bases or logistics hubs
- Experience developing or working with Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) and Facilities Management plans for aviation or Defence programs
- Understanding of PSPF and ISM facility security zoning (Zone 2 / Zone 4) and DISP compliance
- Experience managing subcontractors and suppliers in a regulated environment
- Familiarity with CASA Part 138 operations and Part 145 maintenance support frame-works advantageous
- Demonstrated experience in stakeholder engagement, contract delivery oversight, and per-formance management frameworks focused on mission success
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to coordinate cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams
- Strong logistical, analytical, and organisational capability
- Private Health Insurance
- Generous PTO
- Annual incentive plan
- Paid parental leave
- Life and disability insurance
- Income Protection Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Novated Car Leasing
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.
At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.
Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.
