Talent Acquisition - Corporate & Enabling

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 refueling, 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.

Group Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas — including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refuelling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation.

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.

Position Summary

The Talent Partner – Corporate & Enabling is responsible for delivering high-quality, end-to-end recruitment across our corporate, enabling and operational support functions in Australia, while supporting broader hiring requirements across APAC as the region grows.

This is a hands-on recruitment role suited to someone who enjoys working in a fast-moving, high-growth environment. You will partner closely with leaders to understand their capability needs, challenge and shape hiring requirements, proactively identify talent and deliver an exceptional candidate experience from initial engagement through to offer.

You will join a small, highly collaborative Talent team supporting a significant workforce growth agenda. Success will require the ability to manage multiple priorities, move quickly without compromising quality, operate with autonomy and help shape how we attract and recruit talent as our APAC footprint develops.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end recruitment across corporate, enabling and operational support functions, including areas such as Finance, Commercial, People, Digital, Project/Program Management, Software, Operations and Administration
• Partner with hiring leaders to understand current and future workforce requirements and translate these into effective recruitment strategies
• Proactively source and engage talent rather than relying solely on advertised applications
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for recurring and hard-to-fill capability areas
• Develop market intelligence around talent availability, remuneration, competitors and emerging capability requirements
• Manage multiple vacancies and recruitment campaigns concurrently, prioritising activity according to business and operational requirements
• Support recruitment across APAC as our regional footprint and workforce requirements grow
• Deliver an engaging, responsive and professional candidate experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle
• Use recruitment systems, data and automation effectively to improve efficiency, visibility and candidate experience
• Maintain accurate recruitment data and provide meaningful insights on pipelines, recruitment activity and hiring outcomes
• Continuously identify opportunities to simplify and improve how we attract, assess and hire talent
• Partner with the broader Talent and People teams to support workforce planning, talent mapping and upcoming recruitment demand
• Work collaboratively across the Talent team during significant recruitment campaigns and periods of increased hiring activity

What You Bring

• Demonstrated experience delivering end-to-end recruitment in a complex, fast-paced or high-growth environment
• Strong experience recruiting across a range of professional, corporate or operational disciplines
• Demonstrated proactive sourcing and talent-mapping capability
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the confidence to appropriately challenge and advise hiring leaders
• The ability to manage a high-volume and varied portfolio while maintaining attention to quality and candidate experience
• Strong judgement and an ability to work effectively where priorities, structures and requirements continue to evolve
• The ability to operate with autonomy, take ownership and find solutions in an evolving environment
• Experience using an ATS and contemporary sourcing tools
• A commercial and pragmatic approach to recruitment
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills

Experience recruiting within Defence, aviation, technology, engineering, government contracting or another highly regulated environment would be advantageous but is not essential.

Benefits

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

Work Authorization / Security Clearance

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.  

Our Firmware

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.