Support & Test Equipment Officer

**Job no**: 974220

**Employment type**: Full time

**Location**: Henderson, WA

**Categories**: Logistics / Stores / Warehousing

ASC is Australia’s only established sovereign submarine company. Our team of leading, submarine platform engineers, trades and professionals are committed to the delivery of an agile and potent submarine capability for the Royal Australian Navy.

**About the Opportunity**

Permanent opportunity supporting our Supply team based in Henderson, WA. The Support & Test Equipment (S&TE) Officer is responsible for ensuring all Support and Test Equipment is safe, certified, located appropriately and ready for use. As a service provider to the business you will be required to support technical personnel in a pro-active manner with review, identification, procurement and management of required Support and Test Equipment in a timely manner to contribute to the scheduled conduct of maintenance tasks.

**About the role**

Reporting to the S&TE Manager, your role will consist of:

- Assisting trades to locate S&TE equipment and rectify any deficiencies
- Provide support through issue and return of Support and Test Equipment
- Sourcing and hiring of equipment where required
- Regularly liaising with various Stakeholders
- Adding new items, policies and maintaining MEX (Asset Management System)
- Raising purchase requisitions
- Following CAPEX purchases from beginning to end
- Calibration of various equipment
- Test and tag equipment

We are seeking an individual who has the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external Stakeholders and who can work well both as part of a team and autonomously.

**About you**

The successful applicant will demonstrate the following:

- 3 years minimum experience in a Purchasing role
- Test and Tag certification (mandatory)
- Experience in the calibration of various technical equipment
- Trade background (preferred)
- Experience and knowledge of safe working practices, legislative requirements and Australian standards pertaining to specific equipment and tools.
- Advanced computer skills particularly in corporate databases, inventory control programmes and Microsoft office packages.
- Demonstrates exemplary communication skills - written and verbal, showcasing your ability to interact effectively with people at all levels of the company across WA and SA.
- Eligibility to obtain Australian Defence Security Clearance.
- ASC is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunities employer that provides an environment that encourages diversity and inclusion in all of its forms._

**Eligibility and Requirements**

**About our offer**

We offer more than just a challenging and rewarding career. We have put together a range of programs, initiatives and benefits that help empower our employees to reach their personal and professional goals to ensure their career with us is both challenging and rewarding.
- Staff training and leadership development programs
- Additional 2 weeks of leave
- Paid parental leave
- Salary sacrificing options
- Paid defence reservist leave
- Flexible working arrangements
- Onsite cafeteria & parking
- Access to our wellbeing programs
- Annual Flu vaccinations and onsite health centre

**About ASC**

ASC has proudly served as Australia’s sovereign submarine builder and sustainer for over 35 years and our 1,800 strong workforce are based in the Osborne Naval Shipyard in SA and in the Henderson Maritime Precinct and Garden Island in WA. We are an enduring and integral part of Australia’s maritime strategy and national security, and a trusted and efficient partner with sovereign design, build and sustainment capabilities, driving best value for our customers. At ASC, our values of protect, respect, integrity, discipline and excellence drive our standards, behaviours and the decisions we make each day to create a culture which is safe, engaged and customer focused.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**

At ASC, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing a work environment where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We encourage diversity of age, ethnicity, religious beliefs, thinking styles, experience, family background and gender identity or expression. We know there are many aspects of our employee’s lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits including flexible working options, a generous parental leave policy and other leave entitlements. ASC’s Reconciliation Action Plan sets out our commitment to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, organisations and communities - the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters on or near our operations in WA and SA, the Whadjuk Noongar people of Perth’s Swan Coastal Plain and the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains. We pay our respects to past, present and emerging elders and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples. Aborig