Overview:
Pathway highlights:
- On-the-job and off-the-job learning and development to achieve industry-based professional recognition.
- Opportunity to build on the skills you learned at university.
- Emphasis on work-life balance.
- Your work will contribute to nationally significant projects that support the Australian Defence Force, and are complex and highly valued.
- Advancement to APS 5 level on successful completion of the Materiel Graduate Scheme
Engineers account for up to half of DMO’s graduate intake. The opportunity for exciting and challenging engineering roles is limitless and we are seeking engineers, in a range of disciplines, to work on nationally significant projects supporting the Australian Defence Force that are complex and highly valued.
As a graduate on the 18 month Materiel Graduate Scheme, you will undertake three rotations (of 6 months), at various locations around Australia, to gain a broad perspective of engineering in DMO.
DMO is seeking graduates with qualifications in the following engineering disciplines;
As a civilian member of the DMO, you could be working on, and contributing to, a range of leading edge and rewarding projects. They include:
- the Joint Strike Fighter;
- F/A-18F Super Hornets;
- Collins Class Submarines or the Future Submarines program;
- the Air Warfare Destroyer program;
- Soldier modernisation and protection systems;
- the Multi-Role Helicopter program;
- Electronic warfare, communications or surveillance systems; or
- Guided weapons systems.
Your work as an engineer within the DMO will be contributing to the operational success of the ADF.
For more detailed information about the DMO and the Program, view the links below.
Next steps
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