Specialist Engineer | Innovation, Science & Technology

Overview

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 conventionally armed, 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

Join ASC’s Innovation Science & Technology (IS&T) team as a full time Specialist Engineer, providing expert technical leadership and oversight across several dynamic projects that shape the future of ASC and our submarine capability. Located at Osborne, South Australia, this role is pivotal in providing technical direction, ensuring governance, and driving innovation through collaboration within intra-departmental engineers, technical authorities, industry partners, and academia.

You’ll work on unique, cross-domain technologies, influencing strategy and guiding technical decisions that support ASC’s long-term innovation journey. You will thrive in complex environments and enjoy solving problems with a pragmatic, consultative approach.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and governance for IS&T program, projects and initiatives.
• Technical review and approve outputs and deliverables, ensuring appropriate standards and methodologies are met.
• Manage technical risks and contribute to strategic planning.
• Mentor and develop technical capability within the team.
• Collaborate with ASC technical authorities, industry, academia, and SME to shape innovation.
• Lead specific IS&T projects and provide technical advisory input.

About You

We’re looking for an experienced engineer who brings:

• A degree in Engineering, with prior design engineering experience on major projects.
• Demonstrated technical decision-making and governance capability.
• Experience across a full project lifecycle (design to build completion highly regarded).
• Expertise in at least one technical specialty area.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to influence at all levels.
• Ability to seek out technical alignment and navigate multiple perspectives to achieve innovation outcomes.
• A passion for innovation and comfort working in ambiguous and evolving environments.

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

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.
• Up to 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.

Apply today for a career with a deeper purpose.

Applications will close on the 8th of Feb 2026; however, we encourage early applications as shortlisting will commence immediately.

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.