Infrastructure Engineer: SSN AUKUS Build Program

ASC Pty Ltd; City of Port Adelaide Enfield; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexibility over work hours

10 days additional leave

Generous parental leave

Subsidised childcare

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Professional development opportunities

Discounts from Australian brands

Job summary

ASC Pty Ltd is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to deliver technical expertise across projects and disciplines. This role involves ensuring safety and practicality in engineering decisions while managing project tasks aligned with cost, quality, and schedule.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor of Engineering, preferably in Electrical or related fields and experience in the industrial manufacturing or Defence Shipbuilding Industry. Join ASC for rewarding work contributing to national security.

Qualifications

• Eligibility for Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) or equivalent status.
• Experience in industrial manufacturing industry on technical specifications.
• Specific experience in Defence Shipbuilding Industry is highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Deliver engineering tasks with minimal supervision.
• Manage and execute project work including multi-disciplinary tasks.
• Provide expert technical advice and align with organisational goals.

Skills

Electrical Engineering

Industrial Manufacturing

Stakeholder Engagement

Project Management

Compliance Standards

Education

Bachelor of Engineering

Job description

ASC is Australia’s submarine company. We built the Royal Australian Navy’s Collins Class submarines, sustain them, and are now delivering their Life of Type Extension to increase the boats’ service lives. We have also been selected by the Australian Government to sustain and jointly build the nation’s nuclear-powered submarines - the largest and most complex industrial undertaking in Australia’s history.

Our work is interesting and meaningful, contributing directly to Australia’s national security. We offer rewarding roles that provide the opportunity to grow your career, and the flexibility to balance life and work. A career at ASC is like no other, delivering a deeper purpose we can all be proud of.

About the Opportunity

The Infrastructure Engineer delivers technical expertise and support across engineering disciplines, as well as to teams outside the Design and Engineering function. This role requires ensuring that all technical decisions are safe, practical, and appropriate for implementation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver engineering tasks with minimal supervision, ensuring outcomes meet scope, schedule, cost, and quality requirements.
• Work closely with architects and project teams to assist in infrastructure design activities, ensuring solutions are practical, scalable and supportable.
• Manage and execute project work, including small multi-discipline or larger single-discipline tasks, aligned to WBS, resource planning, and earned value reporting.
• Perform and oversee engineering activities such as calculations, analysis, design, modelling, and preparation/review of technical documentation.
• Provide technical direction across the full design lifecycle, including review, design assurance and approval of engineering artefacts and ensuring alignment with standards and procedures.
• Engage with stakeholders (internal & external) to translate operational needs into infrastructure solutions.
• Provide expert technical advice and communicate decisions clearly, ensuring alignment with organisational goals, governance, and professional engineering standards.

About you

• Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical or related discipline with exposure to ICT and security systems and Eligible for Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) or equivalent status.
• Experience working in the industrial manufacturing industry on technical specifications ( e.g clean rooms, cranes) and/or compliance (GMP, ISO & Australian Standards)
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Specific experience creating technical & functional infrastructure requirements within the Defence Shipbuilding Industry will be highly regarded.
• Proven stakeholder engagement with the ability to translate business needs into technical outcomes, with experience working in structured delivery environments.
• Experience in project managing infrastructure/equipment design, procurement, manufacturing, installation, and commissioning.
• Highly organised with strong commercial awareness, experienced across project and systems engineering (scope, schedule, cost, risk, integration, and sustainment lifecycles) and able to recover schedule or budget challenges.

A degree of flexibility is required in working hours, to support engagements with colleagues in other time zones. This role may also require periodic or regular overseas travel.

This role requires a current National Police Clearance and an Australian Defence Security Clearance to a NV1 level. Your eligibility for this role is dependent on you obtaining and maintaining such clearance.

Whilst ASC will accept all applications for this role, as this role requires an ability to access protected US defence technology, applicants holding nationality of certain foreign countries will not be eligible.

To check your eligibility please visit the Australian Government Security Vetting Agency website.

Benefits

• Unique and challenging work with a deeper purpose.
• Flexibility over how, when and where you work for the best work/life balance.
• 10 days additional leave every year so you can rest and recharge.
• Generous parental leave so you can give your family the focus it deserves.
• Subsidised childcare to ease the financial pressure on your family.
• Health and wellbeing initiatives so you can perform at your best at work.
• Professional development opportunities to advance your career.
• A diverse and supportive environment where you can thrive.
• Discounts and exclusive offers from leading Australian brands to help you save.

About ASC

ASC’s 2,400-plus staff offer a depth of submarine design, project management, supply chain, construction and engineering experience and expertise that is unparalleled in Australia’s defence industry. Established in 1985, the company’s work on Australia’s conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarine build and the Collins Class Life of Type Extension takes place in Osborne, South Australia, with sustainment shared across Osborne and Henderson, Western Australia. ASC also plays a leading role in training Royal Australian Navy submariners.

Apply today for a career with a deeper purpose.

Early applications are encouraged as shortlisting may commence immediately.