Saab Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scholarship Opportunities
Adelaide
Opportunity expired
Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- 2 vacancies
- Apply by 27 Jun 2021
The purpose of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scholarship is to support and encourage student's continuation and success with their university studies in the following fields:
- Engineering
- Electrical/Electronics
- Computer Science
- Software
- Mechanical/Mechatronics
- Aerospace
- Business/Commerce
- Human Resources
- Finance
- Information Technology
The successful scholarship holders will be awarded $3,000 per calendar year towards their studies, a Saab Australia mentor and the opportunity to apply for the Saab Internship Program in their penultimate year of study.
Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scholarship, you need to meet the following criteria:
- Currently studying your second year of a Bachelor's Degree in any of the following fields:
Engineering: Electrical/Electronics, Software, Mechanical/Mechatronics, Aerospace, or Computer Science, or
Business/Commerce, Human Resources, Finance, or Information Technology - Enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student at the time of application and subsequent years.
- Maintain a minimum GPA of 4.0 throughout the scholarship program.
- Hold Australian Citizenship to meet Defence industry security requirements.
- Identify as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
Scholarship recipients receive financial assistance, a Saab mentor and pathways into our Internship and Graduate Program.
To apply, you will need to provide the following:
- A copy of your CV, including your work history, education, extra-curricular activities and accomplishments
- The most recent copy of your academic transcript
- Completed scholarship application form (General Engineering, Women in Engineering or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)
Applications close Sunday 27 June 2021.
You may also contact the team by clicking on the Apply Now button if you’d like further information or a copy of the application form.
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.
Reviews
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.
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.
Learning how to deliver client ready documentation that meets the particular standard requirements the client has chosen to implement.
About the employer
Saab Australia
4.0
1,000 - 50,000 employees
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/