Defence Sustainment Engineer

Location: Melbourne, Australia
Work Arrangement: Hybrid (Tuesday-Thursday in office)

What You'll Be Doing

• Support sustainment and lifecycle engineering activities across Defence programs.
• Contribute to maintenance planning and asset management activities.
• Assist with reliability, maintainability, and supportability engineering tasks.
• Support investigations into equipment performance, failures, and maintenance-related issues.
• Participate in root cause analysis and problem-solving activities involving complex mechanical systems.
• Develop and maintain engineering documentation, maintenance records, technical data, and supportability information.
• Support engineering change and configuration management activities.
• Assist with development of maintenance concepts, support strategies, and lifecycle planning.
• Support preparation of technical publications, operating instructions, and maintenance documentation.
• Work closely with Systems Engineers, suppliers, project teams, and Defence stakeholders.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, reliability, maintainability, and operational performance.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of engineering experience supporting, maintaining, improving, or managing complex equipment, assets, or systems.
• Experience in one or more of the following:
  • Maintenance Engineering
  • Asset Management
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Sustainment Engineering
  • Supportability Engineering
  • Lifecycle Engineering
  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Understanding of engineering fundamentals, asset lifecycle management, maintenance principles, and reliability concepts.
• Experience working with mechanical systems, industrial equipment, engineered assets, vehicles, machinery, plant equipment, or other complex physical systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Examples of Relevant Backgrounds

Successful candidates may have experience:

• Managing maintenance programs for industrial, marine, rail, Defence, manufacturing, or energy-related assets.
• Supporting asset reliability and lifecycle management activities.
• Planning preventive and corrective maintenance programs.
• Conducting root cause investigations and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Supporting sustainment, maintenance, or engineering support programs.
• Working with mechanical equipment, rotating machinery, transportation systems, mobile assets, plant equipment, or industrial facilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within Defence, Aerospace, Rail, Marine, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Manufacturing, Mining, or other highly regulated industries.
• Exposure to Defence sustainment programs, Integrated Product Support (IPS), Integrated Logistics Support (ILS), or other asset support and lifecycle management activities.
• Experience participating in engineering investigations, reliability studies, or failure analysis activities.
• Exposure to maintenance planning, supportability assessments, or asset lifecycle planning.
• Exposure to engineering change processes or configuration-controlled environments.
• Experience developing engineering documentation, technical publications, maintenance instructions, or user manuals.

What Makes Someone Successful in This Role

• Strong mechanical aptitude and curiosity about how equipment is maintained and supported.
• Ability to solve practical engineering problems using a structured and analytical approach.
• Interest in reliability, maintenance, asset performance, and lifecycle engineering.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to engineering quality.
• Comfortable working across multiple engineering disciplines and stakeholder groups.
• Eagerness to learn and develop within the Defence engineering environment.

Why Join World Fuel Government Solutions?

• Work directly on Defence engineering and sustainment programs.
• Gain exposure across engineering, supportability, reliability, maintenance, and lifecycle management.
• Learn from experienced Defence engineers and technical specialists.
• Develop broad engineering capability rather than working within a narrow specialty.
• Enjoy significant ownership, responsibility, and visibility early in your career.
• Work in a collaborative, highly supportive engineering team.
• Build a long-term career within Defence engineering and sustainment.