The posting
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 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 workplace experience coordinator (known internally as our internal engagement specialist) is part of the Internal Engagement team, playing a pivotal role in the successful execution of collaborative unity between the core and support groups in the Enterprise. As an Internal Engagement Specialist, you will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of physical and virtual workspaces, including facilities, vendor relationships, and space planning. This also includes supporting onboarding of new Teammates, coordinating internal events such as office celebrations, team summits, and deep-dive sessions to foster employee engagement and team cohesion. This role requires excellent communication skills, a proactive approach to problem-solving and a high degree of professionalism.
What You'll Do
- Oversee the maintenance and coordination of a clean, well-organised and resourced working environment, ensuring adequate inventory of office supplies and equipment, and manage relationships with external vendors to maintain operational efficiency
- Support the framework planning, coordination and delivery of internal events and team meetings to foster Teammate engagement
- In coordination with the People Team, provide Onboarding Buddy support to ensure that new teammates are effectively integrated into the Metrea Ecosystem of frameworks and FIRMWARE.
- Support the management of inventory, distribution, and logistics of branded workwear and merchandise to support internal cohesion, events, and brand representation.
- Support the development of and oversee the annual office budget, track expenditure with accuracy using internal reporting mechanisms, and ensure the efficient and cost-effective allocation of resources
- Work with the Head of Team Engagement to identify inefficiencies in existing processes, communicate effectively procedural changes and support strategies to streamline operations and enhance productivity
- Assist in the development and execution of Enterprise expansion initiatives, including workforce growth and office location planning
What You Bring
- Able to effectively prioritise tasks, manage competing deadlines, and remain agile in responding to rapidly changing requirements
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with teammates at all levels of the organisation
- Proficient with MS Office and fluent in the use of modern software tools and applications
- Strong organisational and time management abilities, with a keen attention to detail and the ability to prioritise tasks effectively
- Practical experience in an administrative coordination role
- Experience in facilities management
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
Security Clearance
Ability to obtain and maintain and 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.
