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Graduate program

As a part of Saab Australia's Graduate Program, you will have the opportunity to contribute to your own personalised development initiatives, and kick-start your career.

Explore your potential

At Saab Australia, we’re pioneering Australia’s defence capability with ongoing development of advanced defence and security technologies. Saab develops everything from combat, communications and security systems, to mixed reality and cyber security solutions.

What does our program involve?

As a Saab Graduate, you will work alongside experienced engineers to deliver world leading and innovative projects.

Saab’s Graduate Program is a two year program, which offers you the opportunity to work across two or three teams through structured rotations across the business. These rotations are individually tailored to your current skills and developmental needs, business requirements and individual preferences.

Following the successful completion of the program, you will be placed into a permanent position within the business so that you can continue the growth of your exciting new career.

Our 2022 program will be comprised of the following graduate roles:

  • Software Engineering within our 9LV Combat Management System, Submarine Combat & Automation System and OneView Security product teams
  • Hardware Engineering, focusing on electrical/electronic and mechanical/mechatronic physical solutions for our 9LV Combat Management System, Submarine Platform Systems and innovative OneView security system
  • Combat System Engineering design across the Royal Australian Navy’s surface fleet
  • Modelling & Analysis of Naval Combat System solutions
  • Integrated Logistics Support Engineering of Naval Combat System solutions

Our graduates are also provided the opportunity to participate in professional development and mentoring activities including; the Re-Engineering Foundation Subs in Schools Program, Australia-wide Careers Fairs and Events, as well as the mentoring of future Saab graduates.

What support will you receive?

In addition to the day-to-day support you will receive from your supervisors and team, you will also be provided with trained and experienced mentors from within the business and access to the Saab Australia Graduate School.

The Saab Australia Graduate School comprises regular lessons that cover the overarching topics such as knowing your personal brand, developing your business acumen and advancing your technical skills.

 

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Who do we look for?

We are searching for talented and inquisitive problem-solvers, who are interested in designing and developing products that will help to keep people and society safe. We seek well-rounded engineering graduates in the following disciplines:

  • Software Engineering/Computer Science
  • Computer Systems/Networking/IT
  • Electrical/Electronics Engineering
  • Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineering
  • Or a related technical discipline

 

To work at Saab you must comply with defence industry security requirements (i.e. you will be an Australian citizen and able to meet eligibility requirements).

 

Applications open in March each year, apply below

Adelaide HQ

Human Resources

Visit our careers listing around March each year to lodge an application for our Graduate Program
Saab Australia current vacancies

Hear from our graduates

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Tell us a little about your role at Saab

‘My role in the Integration team is to build and configure the backend servers and network infrastructure for OneView to operate on. We spend a lot of time tweaking configurations to meet redundancy and availability requirements, as well as to integrate with a growing list of subsystems – from CCTV to door access control and perimeter detection systems.

The coolest thing about my job is that I get involved in a large scope of the process, starting at pulling servers freshly out of the box.

My focus started with setting up for Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) in the office. It has since shifted to flying in and out of sites such as the new Clarence Correctional Centre, in Grafton NSW. This will be Australia’s largest correctional centre, housing up to 1700 inmates, and is nearing the final stages of construction. An exciting place to have worked on.’

What is some advice you would have like to tell students?

  • Work hard, both inside and outside of university. This will set you up well when it comes time for applying for jobs and being able to easily answer interview questions.
  • Look for opportunities and get to know companies at careers events, Ingenuity and when companies come to present at the university.
  • Have fun and enjoy what you do. Once I changed degrees I was much happier and doing well got a whole lot easier.

Day in the life of a Graduate Engineer

7:15am

"I am usually one of the first people to arrive at work. Our hours are flexible and I prefer to start and finish early most days."

7:30am

"The first thing I do each day is check my emails. I see I have a reminder about mandatory training, a few emails from members of my team informing everyone about changes they've made, and a meeting request for lunch with the other grads in my cohort."

7:45am

"Time to get stuck into my tasks. We're able to pick which tasks we might like to do from the dashboard available tasks, then have a chat with our team leader who then assigns them." 

8am

"Currently, I'm working on a coding task to improve our Configuration Tool, which will ultimately save us a lot of time configuring large, nation-wide sites in the future. We write our code using C# in Visual Studio, in the Windows environment. Some tasks involve some work in xaml, xml or sql databases as well."

9:45am

"It's time for a stand up meeting with my team. Today is a regular team meeting day, and we get together to discuss what we're all working on and any problems we're having. This is good opportinuty to bounce ideas around and find the right help."

10am

"I take a break from coding and work on some grad school homework. It's a great opportunity for further learning, where our company puts on fortnightly sessions for all the first-year grads."

12:30pm

"After lunch, I look into a problem we are having with one of our sites. Our movement tracking system just isn't starting up correctly. We have a test lab set up for this particular site, so I head in there to see if I can replicate the problem. I can, which means we can work on solving it a lot more easily than if we were just providing remote support to the engineers on site."

2pm

"I decide to go for a walk along Dry Creek to clear my head, there were even some Rainbow Lorikeets along the way!"

2:15pm

"I haven't spoken to my mentor for a while so I set up a meeting for next week. My mentor is in the cyber security department and is full of interesting stories and tips, and even though I'm quite settled now, I still like to meet with him to stay connected. After this, I get back to my coding tasks."

4pm

"Off the clock now and ready for sport. Once a week we have an organised inner-company sporting match. This is in our own time but is a great way to get to know more people and run around."

5pm

"Tennis isn't my strong point and I lost most of my matched, but it was good fun! Time to head home now and take the dog for a walk before settling in for the night."

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Megan studied a Bachelor of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Applied Mathematics at the University of Adelaide and is now a Graduate Engineer at Saab Australia.