As an Airfield Engineer, you'll use civil engineering and project management skills to work on Air Force infrastructure, aerodromes and a wide range of projects that provide critical support to Air Force and Defence operations. In this role you have the opportunity to be deployed both onshore and overseas to provide your vital engineering skills to enable Air Force's core capability.
You’ll get some of the best military training in the world to provide advice to the wider Air Force on infrastructure, including the following:
1. Provision, protection and regeneration of air bases
2. Ability to rapidly deploy to, assess, prepare, maintain and regenerate both onshore and offshore airfields
3. Protection and sustainment of air power
4. Provision of infrastructure and expertise for passive defence and physical security to airfields
Airfield Engineers perform a broad range of tasks. You will be trained to hold significant responsibility, and using specialist military and technical civil engineering expertise, you'll work with a diverse team of engineers, tradespersons and contractors on a variety of exciting tasks. These may include developing and maintaining infrastructure on military bases, surveying airfields and establishing temporary runways in remote locations in Australia and overseas for use by military aircraft.