At Downer Professional Services, you’ll find purpose, impact and huge opportunity. Join us and help make it happen.

A real endeavour, achieved with you

As Australia’s multi-disciplinary advisory and business partner of choice for clients in defence, government and infrastructure, we deliver complex things that matter. It's not always an easy task, but anything worthwhile seldom is. Great things are rarely accomplished alone. We’re building something remarkable. Now we just need you.

A real endeavour, shaped by you

As a Mission Engineering Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in delivering critical insights that shape strategic decisions and enhance national security.

To succeed in this endeavour, you will:

• Developing mission contexts including environmental and threat characterisation.
• Define and articulate operational needs and business requirements in collaboration with Defence stakeholders.
• Creating and refining mission architectures that integrate various systems and capabilities to achieve desired operational outcomes.
• Conducting comprehensive mission analysis using curated data and models. Identify, quantify, and prioritize mission capability gaps. Develop and test mission scenarios through modelling and simulation (including wargaming).
• Supporting and facilitating workshops with Defence stakeholders to elicit requirements and validate mission engineering concepts.
• Preparing and delivering analytical reports and recommendations.
• Documenting ME processes and outcomes for continuous improvement.

A real endeavour, driven by you

Our work is highly complex and confidential, so there are some things you must have to fulfil this role:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline (business, intelligence, security, international relations, political science, operations research, simulation, data science etc.).
• Proven experience in conducting business, intelligence, data, and/or operations analysis preferably within a professional services firm or the Defence industry
• Experience in designing and developing Defence capability needs and requirements.
• Experience in developing and delivering both standard and ad-hoc analytical reports to meet stakeholder requirements.
• Ability to adapt to complex, multi-disciplinary, and ambiguous situations.
• Proven ability to present complex information to a variety of audiences.
• You must have the ability to obtain and maintain an NV1 clearance.

More than anything, you’ll bring a strong work ethic, a positive attitude and a drive to manage critical projects and programs that build sovereign capability and deliver complex things that matter.

Why Downer Professional Services?

At Downer Professional Services, you’ll find the opportunity to build something remarkable. Here are some of the reasons why our people love working here:

Work with purpose. You’ll deliver or enable critical defence projects and programs in Australia, for Australia. Your expertise will help build sovereign capability.

Great projects, influence and impact. You might join us for the projects, but we think you’ll stay for the impact you can have. With high project ownership, agile problem solving and accessible leaders, you can go further at Downer Professional Services.

Your opportunity to build something remarkable. We’re proud of all we’ve achieved. But there’s much more to do. Together, we’re building a better, stronger, more agile Downer Professional Services. From process and systems to culture and communications, we're working hard to enable our teams to do their best work, whoever and wherever they are.

We encourage you to join us on our greatest endeavour. We’ll support and recognise your contribution, and you’ll also enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Veteran support initiatives and policies, including up to 20 days of Reservist Leave for veterans to remain connected as they transition out of active service
• An Employee Assistance Program providing access to professionals to support you (and your family) to achieve your personal or professional goals through wellbeing coaching, counselling, financial advice, legal advice and more.
• Affordable healthcare covers, discounted car purchase and rental (with selected brands), and other retail discounts.

To learn more about why our people choose Downer Professional Services, read some of the stories of incredible people on our website.

Ready to join us on our biggest endeavour?

Take your career to the next level. Apply for this position by:

• Clicking ‘Apply’ to complete a short form and attach your CV.

Downer Group is an employer that acknowledges and embraces the importance of our people's diverse experiences, talents, and cultures. As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from everyone.