Jade Aspinall is an Engineering Manager at Raytheon Australia. Based out of Brisbane Australia she provides manufacturing and production expertise and guidance within the GWEO space.Prior to Joining Raytheon she was Senior Explosive Ordnance Engineer within the Explosives Material Branch (EMB) for QinetiQ Australia providing engineering services to the Australian Defence Force. Prior to her work with QinetiQ she was in-country Engineer for the ASRAAM Australia Missile System based at Defence Establishment Orchard Hills, Sydney Australia. Within her 12 years experience in the engineering sector she previously worked as the Lead Manufacturing Engineer for the Manufacturing Equipment’s team within Missile Subsystems at MBDA Bolton in the UK. Prior to that she completed a 4 Year Higher Engineering Apprenticeship with MBDA qualifying with two Higher National Diploma’s one in Electronic Engineering and the other in Mechanical Engineering. She then went on to complete a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Aided Engineering, graduating with First Class Honours and was awarded as an Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Whitworth Scholar. She has won multiple awards throughout her 10 Years in industry for her apprenticeship and manufacturing. A few of these include The Manufacturers Apprentice of the Year and Top 100 Alumni, SEMTA’s Best of British Engineering Award and The IET’s National Apprentice of the Year. Using these awards she is a keen ambassador to promote women in engineering and getting young people into STEM.Outside of work she plays Touch Football and Oz Tag with various social teams across the ACT. She enjoys adrenaline style activities including skydives and bungee jumps and loves to travel and explore everything the world has to offer in an attempt to touch every country. She has a keen interest in charitable events completing 4 Tough Mudder's and organising and completing the Yorkshire three peaks event raising over £2000 ($4000) for Pancreatic Cancer.