Northrop Grumman Australia is offering an exciting opportunity for a Technical Services Engineer (Graduate) to join our Engineering & Technical Services (E&TS) team.

In this role, you’ll work across a broad range of engineering and technical support activities that underpin airworthiness, safety, and operational capability across our Defence aviation programs.

This is a unique opportunity to see how engineering, maintenance, and logistics come together to support complex aircraft systems in a real operational environment.

You’ll be supported by experienced engineers and will contribute to real engineering outputs that directly support fleet performance, compliance, and serviceability.

What you’ll be doing

As a Technical Services Engineer, you will:

• Assess incoming technical information and determine suitability for application across the fleet
• Develop technical data, instructions, and documentation to support engineering changes and maintenance activities
• Support technical investigations related to safety occurrences, technical queries, and quality findings
• Assist with the development and maintenance of airworthiness, operational, and technical publications
• Contribute to system safety engineering activities, identifying and communicating risks
• Support configuration management and ensure fleet configuration accuracy across platforms
• Work closely with engineering leadership, maintenance teams, and operator representatives on technical and operational matters
• Assist in continuous improvement initiatives within the Engineering Management System

You’ll have the opportunity to work across multiple technical disciplines (e.g. structures, avionics, mechanical systems), gaining broad exposure early in your career.

About the role

This is a graduate-level position within our Engineering function, offering hands-on experience in a regulated Defence aviation environment.

• Location: Brisbane or Canberra
• Engineering & Technical Services (E&TS) team
• Opportunities to participate in graduate program activities and rotational placements (where available)

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for early-career engineers with a strong interest in aviation, safety, and technical problem solving. Ideally, you’ll bring:

• A Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace, Mechanical, or a related discipline
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• High attention to detail and an interest in working in a regulated engineering environment
• Curiosity and a willingness to learn across multiple engineering disciplines
• Interest in airworthiness, safety, configuration management, and certification concepts (desirable)
• Exposure to aviation (civil or Defence) or engineering/technical documentation (desirable)

The Recruitment Process  

• Apply on our website with the required documents. A cover letter is crucial as we want to know, “why us?” 
• You will receive an email with a survey and some more information about Northrop Grumman, which we hope you complete as soon as possible.
• You will receive a call or email from one of our friendly recruitment team to talk through your application. From here, our recruitment team will organise for you to attend one of our assessment centres or an interview. 
• A recruitment representative or your hiring manager will give you a call to let you know if you are successful or unsuccessful.
• If you are successful, a People and Culture representative will then reach out to you to discuss your onboarding and provide a warm welcome to Northrop Grumman!  

Please note that our recruitment process can be lengthy due to the strong security checks required which allow our Interns to get close to our secure technology. Therefore, any candidates MUST have an Australian Citizenship to apply.