About TAFE Queensland

TAFE Queensland is proud to be the largest and most experienced Vocational Education and Training (VET) provider in the State. For more than 140 years, TAFE Queensland has delivered practical and industry-relevant training to provide students with the skills and experience they need to build lifelong careers. Our award-winning training is delivered on campus, online, and in the workplace to give people the skills they need to enrich their communities, support their industries, and strengthen their local economies.

TAFE Queensland is proud to be the largest and most experienced Vocational Education and Training (VET) provider in the State. For more than 140 years, TAFE Queensland has delivered practical and industry-relevant training to provide students with the skills and experience they need to build lifelong careers. Our award-winning training is delivered on campus, online, and in the workplace to give people the skills they need to enrich their communities, support their industries, and strengthen their local economies.

Your Opportunity

As The Teacher, Maritime You Will Be Responsible For

- Passing on the knowledge, judgement, and seamanship you’ve built at sea—shaping the skills and mindset of the next generation of mariners who will operate, navigate, and protect vessels in real-world conditions.
- Playing a vital role in delivering Maritime Operations training, with a primary focus on Near Coastal Qualifications, while also contributing across essential short courses such as safety and survival, firefighting, security and maritime communications. Every day brings the chance to draw on your own experiences—what worked, what didn’t, and what really matters when it counts.
- Turning your experience into impact.



The lessons you’ve learned under pressure will directly influence how future mariners operate safely and professionally so if you want to ensure the next generation does it right—you’ll feel at home here.
- Transforming experience into education, and sea time into something that lasts.
- Teaching practical skills that matter on the water, such as coastal navigation, chartwork and marine radio operations to marine engineering systems, fault finding and maintenance. Covering real-world decision making, weather interpretation and emergency response, your training is grounded in industry experience and the realities of Australia's near-coastal marine environment.
- Being a mentor, not just an instructor.
- Students aren’t just learning how to pass an assessment—they’re learning how to become mariners. You’ll be a role model for professionalism, situational awareness, and safety culture.

This position reports to the Business Manager

This is a Permanent, Full-time opportunity.

The position will be based between the TAFE Queensland Cairns Campus and the Great Barrier Reef International Marine College, however you may be required to perform work at other TAFE Queensland campuses.

Key Responsibilities

- Display teaching competence and a commitment to a student-centred approach.
- Lead and manage effective teaching and learning within classroom, workplace, simulated and online learning environments with a focus on student engagement, progression and success.
- Utilise versatile, blended and inclusive learning techniques, options and products which are responsive to various student cohorts, including commencing students and those with priority needs.
- Design, develop and implement assessment tools and processes that meet industry skills standards (i

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📌 Teacher - Marine (Cairns Regional)
🏢 Queensland Government
📍 Cairns Regional