- Excellent permanent career opportunity & development with attractive bonus
- Top tier project scope & versatile exposure
- Suited to those with hands-on experience looking to grow

Your New Company Join a highly respected organisation supporting some of Australia's most complex and mission-critical defence programs. Renowned for its technical excellence, collaborative culture, and commitment to developing emerging talent, this business offers a rare opportunity for an early-career Mechanical Engineer to gain hands-on experience while building a long-term engineering career.

Working alongside experienced engineers, technicians, and industry specialists, you'll be exposed to challenging technical work, real-world problem solving, and a clear pathway into broader engineering, design, and project-based responsibilities. In return, you'll benefit from strong mentorship, excellent career development opportunities, a supportive leadership team, and a highly attractive bonus structure.

This is an opportunity to fast-track your career while contributing to meaningful engineering outcomes within a dynamic and growing environment.

Your New Role

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Graduate or early career Mechanical Engineer or someone with 1 to 3 years of industry experience looking to grow their career.

Initially, the role will be heavily hands-on, supporting maintenance, servicing, testing, and refurbishment activities on complex mechanical equipment. Approximately 90% of your first year will involve practical workshop and field-based engineering activities,



providing invaluable exposure rarely available in traditional graduate roles. Subsequent to this, you will develop and grow onto new & growing defence projects, where you will segway into areas such as Mechanical Design.

Key responsibilities include

- Supporting the maintenance and testing of critical mechanical equipment.
- Conducting workshop-based diagnostics and fault-finding activities.
- Assisting with on-site servicing and maintenance activities.
- Interpreting engineering drawings, specifications, and standards.
- Supporting engineering reviews, technical documentation, and compliance activities.
- Working closely with senior engineers and technical specialists to solve complex engineering challenges.
- Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives and process optimisation.
- Developing towards increased involvement in engineering design, customer projects, and technical engineering activities as the business continues to grow.

This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys being hands-on, solving problems, and seeing engineering outcomes come to life in a real operational environment. What You'll Need to Succeed To be successful, you will bring:




- Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering or Mechatronics Engineering.
- Graduate level experience or up to 3 years within engineering, maintenance, manufacturing, defence, marine, heavy industry.
- Hands-on prior experience - such as on Naval Vessels.
- Confidence interpreting engineering standards, technical drawings, and specifications.
- Hands-on mechanical aptitude with a genuine interest in equipment repair, maintenance, and reliability.
- Robust attention to detail and commitment to quality outcomes.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
- Desire to learn and develop into a broader engineering career.

Highly regarded experience includes:
- Defence, maritime, naval, marine, shipbuilding, sustainment, or heavy industrial environments.
- Experience servicing, maintaining, repairing of mechanical systems.
- Experience working on vessels or within maintenance and sustainment operations.

Eligibility requirements:
- Australian Citizenship is essential.
- Baseline or NV1 Security Clearance is highly regarded.
- Applicants must be eligible to work on regulated defence-related programs and not be subject to ITAR export control restrictions.

What to Do Now If you're an ambitious early-career Mechanical Engineer looking for exceptional technical exposure, strong mentorship, hands-on engineering experience, and a transparent pathway for long-term career growth, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now or share your resume directly with [email protected]

📌 Mechanical Engineer (1-3yrs) - Defence (Perth)
🏢 Hays
📍 Perth