Rheinmetall
Rheinmetall Defence Australia’s Graduate Design Engineer Virtual Experience
Australia, Online/remote
Opportunity details
- Virtual Experience
What is this?
Welcome to Rheinmetall Defence Australia’s Graduate Design Engineer Virtual Experience.
Rheinmetall Defence Australia is a major defence company, delivering the highest quality vehicle, force protection and weapons system equipment, across Australia and New Zealand. At RDA, a design engineer’s role is to create, develop and deliver system solutions and capability to the defence force.
What’s in it for you?
- This Virtual Experience is also a Talent Trial - which means we are actively reviewing responses and identifying top performers for recruitment purposes. If you do well in this Virtual Experience you may be contacted about future opportunities at Rheinmetall Defence!
- Completing this Virtual Experience will give you insight into what it would actually be like to work for Rheinmetall Defence as a Graduate Design Engineer. On top of that, you gain real skills, invaluable experience and the confidence you need to be successful in your early career.
Why should you do this?
This Virtual Experience Program is self-paced and should take only 2 to 5 hours to complete.
This Virtual Experience Program is free for all students.
When you complete the Virtual Experience Program, you’ll earn a digital badge and certificate you can share on Linkedin and include on your resume.
Throughout the program, you’ll learn and develop deep insights into what it is actually like to work as a design engineer at Rheinmetall. Apply your engineering knowledge to a real-world problem & gain practical experience and knowledge to draw upon in interviews.
What skills will I gain?
Analysing requirements to produce a conceptual design
Research on alternatives for reducing cost
What you will do?
Module 1: Subsystem Assembly Manufacturing (15 minutes - 1 hour)
Organise and deliver the manufacturing of a Winch trumpet assembly.
Ready to get started?
Click Register to begin
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Engineering & Mathematics +more
- 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.