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?
Saab’s Graduate Program is a two-year program, which offers you the opportunity to undertake either a program aimed at developing technical depth within one area, or a program with structured rotations across two teams in the business. These options are individually tailored to your current skills and developmental needs, business requirements and individual preferences.
Following the successful completion of the program, we will place you into a permanent position within the business so that you can continue the growth of your exciting new career.
Our 2024 Graduate Program will be comprised of the following graduate roles, predominantly located at our Adelaide office, with select roles also available from our Melbourne or Perth offices (noted below):
- Software Engineering: within our surface ship Combat Management System, Submarine Automation System, OneView Security System and Autonomous Systems product teams.
- System Engineering: design of OneView Security System installations and Combat Systems for the Royal Australian Navy’s surface fleet, including detailed design of mechanical, electrical and system security. The combat systems roles may also be based from our Melbourne or Perth offices.
- Electrical Engineering: focusing on the design of electrical/electronic solutions for our surface ship Combat Management System, Submarine systems and Autonomous Systems within the Defence domain.
- Mechanical Engineering: focusing on the design of mechanical/mechatronic solutions for our surface ship Combat Management System, Submarine systems, Autonomous Systems and Ground Based Air Defence & Radar (GBADR) systems. The GBADR role may also be based from our Melbourne office.
- Modelling & Analysis of surface ship Combat System solutions and Autonomous Systems solutions within the Defence domain
- Integrated Logistics Support Engineering: of surface ship Combat System solutions and Autonomous systems within the Defence domain.
- Infrastructure Engineering: Implementation of servers, workstations, network design and security subsystem installation for Saab’s OneView Security System.
- Project Management: providing support to project management, contract administration and subcontractor management tasking for both our surface ship Combat System and OneView Security System programs
- Cyber security: consulting and engineering supporting Saab’s business areas, products and external clients
- Human Resources: supporting our HR operations, talent acquisition and learning & development functions.
- Finance: supporting our accounts payable and receivable, payroll and project accounting functions.
- Legal / Commercial: supporting our Maritime project teams with legal and export control advice.
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.
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
- Physics/Mathematics/Science
- Construction Management
- Business Systems
- Human Resources
- Finance/Accounting
- Law /Commercial /Business
- Or a related 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
Human Resources
Hear from our graduates
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
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.