Defence and Space Career Stories

Careers in the defence and space industries are much more than building ships or launching rockets and you don’t need a university degree to get involved.

Learn about the wide variety of roles and the pathways to get there from some inspiring South Australian defence and space industry employees below.

If you are in the industry and love what you do, share your career story with us today!

Anthony

Anthony Kunda

Software Engineering Consultant and Program Manager, DEWC Services

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Loren

Communications Advisor – Events, ASC 

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Dave Saunders

Operations Manager, Australian Space Weather Forecasting Centre

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Jeremy Satchell

Jeremy Satchell

Head of Industry Capability, BAE Systems Australia 

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 Bez Mohammadi

Pathways Manager, DIP

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Philippa McMurtrie

Graduate Engineer at ASC

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Nishanth Sri Shiva Madhavan

Launch Operations Engineer at Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA)

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Harrison Box

Founder, Paladin Space and Senior Systems engineer at BAE Systems

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