Engineering Officer

Support Australia's maritime defence with flexible work, career growth, and a collaborative team in a role where your maritime engineering skills make a real impact.

Serco is a place where you can grow

Join a team of 12,000+ professionals across Asia Pacific (APAC) and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

• Hybrid work arrangements available
• Flexible leave options and salary packaging
• Career progression and professional development support
• Access to employee networks and wellbeing resources
• Supportive, collaborative team environment
• Work aligned with long-term, government-backed contracts

Make an impact at Serco

As an Engineering Officer in the Defence Maritime Support Services (DMSS) team, you’ll provide expert support across engineering change and asset management for vessels. You’ll ensure repairs, maintenance processes, and systems are effective, and compliance with contract KPIs is met. Working closely with national and port-based teams, you’ll play a key role in enhancing the capability and performance of our maritime assets.

As an Engineering Officer in the DMSS team, you’ll make a positive impact by:

• Providing engineering support to site teams and stakeholders
• Participating in engineering working groups and technical discussions
• Managing engineering change processes and related documentation
• Manage corrective maintenance approvals and risk assessments
• Conducting maintenance investigations and audits of maritime assets
• Preparing scopes of work, risk assessments and cost estimates
• Contributing to key contract deliverables and reporting

Serco is a place for you

To be successful in this role you’ll have:

• A Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in a maritime or engineering discipline

• At least 10 years’ experience in Defence or Marine industry
• Familiarity with vessel systems, structural design and stability
• Knowledge of Defence and Commercial vessel regulations
• Experience with engineering investigations and asset change processes

Please note:

• This position carries trust and responsibility. To support this, a comprehensive probity assessment, including a National Police Check, is a key part of the selection process for this role.
• You must be an Australian Citizen to obtain Defence Security Clearance - AGSVA Baseline Clearance

In joining us, you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals. Here, you will appreciate a flexible approach to work-life that comes with working at a company with long-term government-backed contracts.

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?

At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.

We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in Health, Defence, Maritime, Justice, Immigration, and Community Services.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQI+, veterans and people with disability.

By joining Serco you’ll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Impact a better future at Serco.