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Saab Australia

4.0
  • 1,000 - 50,000 employees

Business Graduate Program (Jan 2025)

Location details

On-site

  • Australia

    Australia

    • South Australia

      Adelaide

Location

Adelaide

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Opportunity details

  • Opportunity typeGraduate Job or Program
  • SalaryAUD 75000 / Year
  • Number of vacancies2-3 vacancies
  • Application open dateApply by 9 Apr 2024
  • Start dateStart date 21 Jan 2025

The program

Saab's Graduate Program is a two-year program, which offers you the opportunity to undertake either a program aimed at developing technical depth within one area, or a program with structured rotations across two teams in the business. These options are individually tailored to your current skills and developmental needs, business requirements and individual preferences.

Following the successful completion of the program, we will place you into a permanent position within the business so that you can continue the growth of your exciting new career.

The roles

Our 2025 Business Graduate Program will be comprised of the following graduate roles and will be located at our Adelaide office.

  • Human Resources: supporting our HR operations, talent acquisition and learning & development functions.
  • Finance: supporting our accounts payable and receivable, payroll and project accounting functions.
  • Legal / Commercial: supporting our Maritime project teams with legal and export control advice.

About you

We are searching for talented and inquisitive problem-solvers, who are interested in designing and developing products that will help to keep people and society safe.

To be eligible for the Saab Australia Graduate Program, you will need to meet the following criteria:

Completed within the last two (2) years, or about to complete, a Bachelor's Degree, specialising in:

  • Human Resources Management / Organisation Psychology
  • Finance / Accounting
  • Law / Commercial / Business

Or a related technical discipline

As Defence security clearance is required for these roles, you will be an Australian citizen and eligible to obtain and maintain an NV1 security clearance.

Culture and benefits

We employ over 700 Australians and are committed to fostering a culture of excellence and enriching the employee experience. By joining Saab, you'll be a part of a collaborative and supportive organisation, where your professional growth and work-life balance are emphasised. You'll work within an innovative and vibrant workplace and have the opportunity to develop a long-term, fulfilling career.

Our suite of benefits include:

  • Flexible working arrangements such as 9 day fortnights and hybrid working from home / office
  • 6 weeks annual leave, with the option to cash out the extra 2 weeks as additional income
  • Share matching scheme, buy Saab shares and 3 years later the company will match
  • Income protection insurance
  • 12.5% superannuation
  • Active social and sports clubs
  • Ongoing professional development
  • MySaab corporate discounts
  • Health and wellbeing initiatives such as on site doctor and masseuse

Applications

Click 'Apply' to submit your application documents by 9 April 2024. Please ensure that you attach the below as a minimum:

  • CV and cover letter
  • Academic transcript
  • Proof of Australian Citizenship i.e. passport or birth certificate

You may also contact our careers team for any enquiries and further information about the program at careers.mailbox@au.saabgroup.com.

About us

Saab Australia is a defence, security and cyber solutions provider, specialising in the development and integration of major defence and security systems. For over 30 years in Australia, we have built a reputation for delivering complex systems integration projects that provide proven and advanced capabilities to keep us ahead of today's challenges.

From combat, communications, security and underwater systems, to mixed reality, cyber security and deployable health solutions, our extensive portfolio of products and services provide high-technology solutions for defence forces and civil industries across the globe.

Saab Australia is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to apply. We also welcome applications from individuals with culturally diverse backgrounds.

Saab Australia is a proud supporter of the Veterans' Employment Program and welcomes the interest of ex-service members, veterans and their families.

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Work rights

The opportunity is available to applicants in any of the following categories.

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Australia
Australian Citizen

Qualifications & other requirements

You should have or be completing the following to apply for this opportunity.

Degree or Certificate
Qualification level
Qualification level
Bachelor or higher
Study field
Study field (any)

Hiring criteria

  • Experience requirementNo experience required
  • Working rights
    Australian Citizen
  • Study fields
    Business & Management
  • Degree typesBachelor or higher
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Reviews

user
Graduate
Adelaide
a year ago

I have been given quite a lot of responsibility when it comes to deliverables. Only issue is that sometimes I will be busy and have things to do and other times I will have nothing allocated to me and my Team Lead and Manager do not offer work in those periods.

user
Graduate
Melbourne
a year ago

I am a Graduate Software Engineer currently working within the Maritime division, I am currently working on 9LV. My day-to-day responsibilities include communicating with my immediate team about my workings on the previous day of working, and what my current objectives are, and achieving those objectives. These objectives primarily include programming, software documentation and problem analysis.

user
Graduate
Adelaide
a year ago

Learning how to deliver client ready documentation that meets the particular standard requirements the client has chosen to implement.

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About the employer

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Saab Australia

Rating

4.0

Number of employees

1,000 - 50,000 employees

Industries

Defence & Aerospace

Saab Australia is a leading provider of defence, civil, and security solutions with over 1000 employees in six locations across Australia.

Pros and cons of working at Saab Australia

Pros

  • Numerous opportunities to network with fellow graduates and team members, welcoming team members, good work-life balance, good work culture, flexible working arrangements, interesting projects, great mentoring program

  • Learning about business strategies and processes that are used on projects. This is drastically different to taught content from university course work. Graduate school development. This has taught me professional skills to be used in workplaces. I think these skills are very important because they can be used universally in all workplace environments. Meeting professionals in different fields.

  • Culture, especially the events that promote socializing outside of your own business unit. - Work and teams are supportive of each other and promote learning deeply in your area; but also promote broadening skills and developing to understand broader picture of projects. Work is valuable and as a graduate, I feel like I contribute to the work being done overall in the business. The ability to work my own hours (within reason) has greatly allowed me to develop a proper work-life balance that has allowed for objectively improved health since finishing university.

  • The culture at SAAB is great. In an organisation that is expanding quite quickly, It's great to see the investment and care for its employees. Monthly department meetings to hear what is happening across the company is also great insight, in particular for graduate engineers.

  • Autonomy and not micromanaged. Get to do things on my own and ask questions when I need.

Cons

    • Lack of documentation for procedures. A lot of the times I have found myself stuck on a question or task because there are no instructions/guidelines that I can refer to.

    • Some tools are counterintuitive to use, but they have trainings to learn these tools appropriately.

    • I can't answer this, haven't experienced anything that can be described as the worst thing

    • Lack of processes/not fully implemented and practised processes.

    • Developing larger standardised processes within the company/