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Join our graduate program and help us solve complex challenges in defence and essential services.

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Join our graduate program and help us solve complex challenges in defence and essential services.

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Start Your Defence Industry Career With Nova

Nova Systems offers a number of entry-level pathways, including defence work experience and internship placements for undergraduate students, and a structured two-year defence graduate program for recent graduates.

Graduate Opportunities

The Nova defence graduate program is a two-year program that will provide you with the experience, supervision, mentoring and training necessary to make the best possible start to your defence industry career pathway, and make a meaningful contribution to Nova and its clients.

The first year of the program focuses on skills development and training, while the second year of the program focuses on further rotations to further build your skills and experience, and introduce you to different entry level jobs. 

The Nova defence graduate program include: 

  • Rotations across different projects, programs and business units

  • Dedicated group and peer-to-peer mentoring

  • Training in technical, business and people skills aligned with a discipline-based competency framework

  • Annual graduate summit and regular team-building activities

  • Exposure to different entry level jobs


Nova Systems accepts applications for the defence graduate program all year round for commencement in February/March or August/September each year.

 
 

Defence Work Experience

The Nova Work Experience and Internship Program provides placements for university students in their penultimate or final year of studies, whose tertiary qualifications are aligned to Nova's core offerings.

The defence work experience program provides successful candidates with the opportunity to learn and develop their skills, by working on exciting projects aligned with their tertiary studies.

Typically, this program offers full-time placements over the summer university break. However, we are flexible around these dates and also offer part-time placements during the university year. 

Upon completion of the program, some candidates may be offered a role in our defence graduate program.

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Two decades ago, our founders had a vision to build a world class engineering and technology solutions organisation where passionate people came together to solve complex problems. Our core foundations of people, clients and value generation are the cornerstones of our success and, when harnessed as a collective, make Nova Systems truly unique.
About Nova
Our Culture
Two decades ago, our founders had a vision to build a world class engineering and technology solutions organisation where passionate people came together to solve complex problems. Our core foundations of people, clients and value generation are the cornerstones of our success and, when harnessed as a collective, make Nova Systems truly unique.

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We live our values of trust, professionalism, passion and community every day. We respect each other and care for the communities we live in.

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