Rheinmetall
Electrical/ Electronics Engineering Summer Internship Program (Nov 2024)
Brisbane, Brisbane and Redbank, QLD
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Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- AUD 65000 / Year
- $32.50 per hour plus super (pro-rated for the internship period) and we work a 9 day fortnight!
- 2 vacancies
- Apply by 31 Aug 2024
- Start date 17 Nov 2024
Create future technologies with us!
The RDA Summer internship program provides a platform to launch your career in the defence industry. The 12 week program provides students with hands on experience, access to technical mentoring, challenging real world projects, professional development and structured performance feedback with opportunities to be considered for our Graduate Program.
We offer paid work experience to students who are currently in their penultimate or final year of undergraduate study in Electrical, Electronics or Communications Engineering.
About your new team
Our summer interns will be embedded in engineering teams based out of our state-of-the-art Military Vehicle Centre of Excellence (MILVEHCOE) in Redbank. This contemporary and one-of-a-kind facility includes a production hall, test track, firing tunnel, EMC Chamber and training auditorium spread out on 11 hectares alongside the Brisbane River offering students the opportunity to have hands on experience with military vehicle manufacturing process.
Find Your Why at Rheinmetall
Our values of Safety, Partnership, Openness, Respect and Trust (SPORT) supports our team members to create a workplace environment where our employees value each other, live up to their promises, communicate openly and work safely every day.
The experience and skillset best suited to this role includes:
- Students in their penultimate or final year of study for an Engineering degree (preferably Electrical, Electonics or Communications Engineering)
- Must be available to work full time between 18th November 2024 and 21st February 2025 with two weeks off over Christmas.
- Must hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance (so must hold Australian Citizenship).
What we offer you
- An in-depth week-long induction into our organisation
- Stand-alone projects embedded in a team
- Support from industry-leading technical specialists
- Attractive remuneration packages
- Long weekends every second week with a 9-day working fortnight
- Access to exclusive employee discounts with over 400 retailers in Australia to help cost of living
- On-site subsidised café with themed days and multiple dietary options
- Flexible working practices
- Extensive Employee Assistance Program to support overall health and wellbeing
Our inclusive culture
Rheinmetall fosters a culture of equality, fairness, diversity and inclusion for all our employees and provides a safe and secure work environment where everyone can feel comfortable and supported to bring their unique self to work every day.
If you would like to know more information about how we are supporting our employees, you can view our policies and initiatives on our website.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen
- IT & Computer Science
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
As I was lucky enough to place on the concept design team with only a lead engineer and a senior engineer, the two of them gave me significant responsibilities and I was lucky enough to get one-on-one tutelage from them. However, other graduates have not been so lucky.
As a design engineering graduate, I have had two key projects. One of which Rheinmetall held design responsibility. This project involved day-to-day activities such as design brainstorming, 3D modelling (CAD), project meetings, researching current technologies to fit your applications, etc. On the other project, we were not the design responsible body (meaning we were contracting the design work to an external body). However, we have the responsibility to provide our customer with quality that lives up to our standards. In this project, my day-to-day responsibilities include supplier meetings, customer meetings, completing and managing FMEA's (noted issues list), completing action items that come out of the FMEA and occasional site visits.
Workload isn't overwhelming but it doesn't feel like I'm doing nothing either. There are lots of small milestones, to make me feel like I've accomplished something.
About the employer
Rheinmetall
4.4
> 100,000 employees
Defence & Aerospace
Rheinmetall Defence Australia Pty Ltd is a subsidiary of Rheinmetall, a mobility and security technology group headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Pros and cons of working at Rheinmetall
Pros
Great team and great work. I have a lot of support from my team and everyone is more than happy to help. The work is fulfilling, enjoyable and always exciting.
Working in the Engineering Department everyone is super knowledgeable and experienced. Everyone is more than happy to share their knowledge and experience with me, helping me to become a better engineer.
Great atmosphere. Manageable workload. Flexible hours.
I am working on exciting projects and I feel I am having an impact on the work I am doing.
The senior engineers I work with are always willing to teach and give advice. I have been lucky enough to work on very interesting subsystems.
Cons
Lack of official registered training.
Although everyone is willing to share knowledge and experience, as a Graduate there is no formal programs or development goals for me to chase in order to help grow my capability.
Requires a 4-month wait for NV-1 security clearance to get into the meat and potatoes of my role.
The lack of official registered training and engineering tools - advanced FEA software, calculation tools such as Python/Matlab.