Cabin Engineer

• Take your engineering career to new heights with Qantas – Australia's iconic aviation brand. Join a team that's shaping the future of air travel through innovation, safety, and technical excellence.
• Secure a permanent opportunity at our state-of-the-art Qantas Campus in Mascot. Be part of a dynamic environment where cutting-edge technology meets world-class engineering.
• Collaborate with a highly skilled and passionate team of aviation professionals. Your expertise will contribute directly to maintaining Qantas' reputation for safety, reliability, and customer satisfaction.

Today, we're busy planning for tomorrow. We look to the future to guide the way we innovate, helping us stay relevant and responsive in an unpredictable industry.

Qantas Engineering keeps us at the forefront of aviation, caring and maintaining both the Qantas fleet, as well as aircraft for our customers across the Asia-Pacific region. Working with state-of-the-art equipment and resources, our shared commitment to professional excellence continues to keep our customers safe.

As a
Cabin Engineer
, you will be working within the Engineering Technical Services, responsible for providing Continuing Airworthiness Management Services to the Qantas Group airlines.

Working within a specialist team of Engineers, you will ensure continual airworthiness support for cabin interior products across various aircraft fleets. This will involve management of the aircraft maintenance program, coordination of reliability initiatives and assessment of modifications that ensure the fleet continues to maintain the outstanding safety record of the organisation, improving fleet operational performance and optimising the cost of the asset.

You will demonstrate subject matter expertise across several cabin interior assets, and exercise a mature professional engineering judgment across a broad range of challenges.

You'll have –

• Professional Engineering degree qualifications in Aeronautical, Aerospace, Mechatronics, Mechanical, Structures or equivalent.
• Extensive experience with design and development aircraft cabin interiors for Boeing or Airbus aircraft.
• Experience with Inflight Entertainment Systems is essential and must have a sound understanding of other cabin avionic systems
• Provide timely customer-focused specialist engineering advice and support to the Qantas Group.
• Thorough working knowledge of CASR Part 21 & Part 42 regulations. An understanding of EASA and FAA regulations is desirable. Prior CASR Part 21 or EASA Part 21 Design Approval experience will be highly regarded.
• Managed small/medium design projects or tasks to meet stakeholder requirements.
• Prioritize and manage multiple conflicting deadlines while maintaining attention to detail.
• Proven organizational and communication skills, with an ability to translate complex technical information clearly and concisely.
• Highly developed skills in problem solving and analytical thinking.
• Ability to manage expectations of customers in line with relevant service level agreements.
• Detailed knowledge of procedures and processes for continuing airworthiness of Qantas and customer aircraft.
• Comprehensive understanding of Qantas and customer maintenance operations.
• Commitment to being customer focused team member with flexibility and willingness to contribute to other business projects and interdisciplinary functions as required.
• Experience, hard work and inclusiveness are valued in our people. Put together, these will help you earn opportunities to do more.

Why Qantas?

You'll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.

There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you'll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You'll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we've got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.

• We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
• We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and the option to purchase additional paid leave for eligible employees.
• We'll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.
• We'll support your wellbeing: Whether it's learning to better support your own and others' mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.

Please Note

The Qantas Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. By coming to work for us, you'll be part of an organisation that encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.

If you're up for an engineering challenge with strong motivation to contribute to Qantas's core sustainability objectives, register your interest and we'll be in touch.

Applications close: Monday 24th of November 2025.