Northrop Grumman Australia
Mission Systems Engineering internship (Nov 2024)
Brisbane
Opportunity expired
Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- AUD 60,000 - 70,000 / Year
- 1 vacancy
- Apply by 28 Apr 2024
- Start date 24 Nov 2024
We want you – your perspective and ideas – to propel us forward
Our interns work on projects in aerospace, engineering, and information technology across our business, with real-world activities, tasks and projects to make a difference. One of our values is a commitment to shared success, so our assurance to you is to give you experiences and exposure preparing you to work with high performing and dynamic teams.
What’s in in it for you?
- 12 weeks paid internship.
- A hands on approach to learning
- The unique opportunity to network and collaborate with talented engineering professionals in a Defence aviation environment.
- Group Mentoring
- Flexible work hours - Achieve a healthy work/life balance with the opportunity to work a 4.5 day week or 9 day fortnight.
Your Role:
As our new Mission Systems Engineering Intern will have the opportunity to contribute to the KC-30A TLS Engineering and Technical Services organisation in the following areas:
CAM Services including the below:
- Error Capture Method Assessment (ECMA)
- Authoritive Advice (AA)
- Modification Orders (MO)
- Risk Decision Brief (RDB)
- Engineering Report (ER)
- Special Technical Instructions (STI)
- Publication Improvement Request Report (PIRR)
- AE 061 Technical Report
This internship is suitable for someone completing an Engineering degree.
This internship will be based at the RAAF base, Amberley, Queensland.
Application requirements
- Current Resume
- Cover Letter
- Most recent academic transcripts
- Any additional certificates, qualifications, memberships or noteworthy experience that may enhance your competitiveness
- Evidence of Australian Citizenship (Passport/Birth certificate) – due to the nature of defence requirements – applicants MUST be Australian citizens
- Ability to work full-time over the allocated internship period.
The Recruitment Process
- Apply on our website with the required documents. A cover letter is crucial as we want to know, “why us?”
- You will receive an email with a survey and some more information about Northrop Grumman, which we hope you complete as soon as possible.
- You will receive a call or email from one of our friendly recruitment team to talk through your application. From here, our recruitment team will organise for you to attend one of our assessment centres or an interview.
- A recruitment representative or your hiring manager will give you a call to let you know if you are successful or unsuccessful.
- If you are successful, a People and Culture representative will then reach out to you to discuss your onboarding and provide a warm welcome to Northrop Grumman!
Defining Possible is our mantra and we are committed to making sure that works for our people’s careers too. What’s Your Possible?
Everyone Matters:
Doing the Right Thing and Sharing Success are two values underpinning how we behave at Northrop Grumman. Here, everyone matters and we proudly encourage individuals from all backgrounds and all abilities to apply to join our diverse and inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are welcome and encouraged to apply.
Our recruitment process can be lengthy for successful applicants, as we need strong security checks to let candidates close to our secure technology. Therefore, any candidates MUST have an Australian Citizenship to apply. We are excited to hear from you soon!
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen
- Engineering & Mathematics
- High School Certificate or higher
- 5 GPA (5 point)
Reviews
Meaningful and low-stress work. Can sometimes be a little slow but overall very good.
My role involves partnering with the business to mature the capability of our workforce. My team partners with the People & Culture Business Partners in leadership development, development frameworks for functional/technical capability, succession planning and workforce planning. Additionally, I oversee our learning management system, support our intern and graduate programs, and support our team to develop solutions on employee performance, engagement and career planning.
As a requirements engineer I am heavily involved in the systems engineering work, and manage databases that track project requirements. There is a lot of interaction with many different people within the project, and I have opportunities to learn about other aspects of systems engineering such as integration and test.
About the employer
Northrop Grumman Australia
4.2
50,000 - 100,000 employees
Defence & Aerospace
Northrop Grumman solves the toughest problems in space, aeronautics, defence and cyberspace to meet the ever evolving needs of our customers worldwide
Pros and cons of working at Northrop Grumman Australia
Pros
Lots of challenges, in my area there are a lot of opportunities to take on additional responsibilities and add to your skillset. There's also lots of opportunities to utilise previously learned skills. You're encouraged to speak up if processes don't make sense, and there isn't any backlash if you speak up either.
The opportunity to be exposed to defence level environments and the processes that are involved. Additionally, the exposure to the multitude of projects available at NGA.
I've been exposed to lots of different work at an early level.
The people! The culture at NGA is nothing but supportive. We face challenges together and help each other out when needed.
The people and general culture are great to work around. Lots of support provided for career growth and progression.
Cons
Given that it is quite small, the strategy for progression and development for interns and grads is very different person to person. This includes compensation, further education as well as opportunities to participate in other teams. A lot of it relies on your own dedication and pushing, which isn't great. They are working on their development strategies, however it is still in early stages.
In the ever-changing world coming out of COVID, communication can still be a large detriment within NGA. With undefined areas between managers and their workers. Especially when assigned inter-state relationships. Often time, I myself have to assign work due to the conflicting schedule of my manager. Despite best efforts to try and specify time, it does not match the response rate that one achieves in person.
I don't have great visibility of career plan or career development.
We are still maturing as a business to grow our policies and procedures.
Not always particularly transparent on internal career progression