Maintenance Technician (Marine Mechanic)

Serco is a place where you can grow

Join a team of 12,000+ professionals across APAC and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

• Opportunities for professional development and training
• Supportive work environment with trusted leadership
• Flexible working arrangements
• Access to a range of health and wellbeing programs
• Long-term, secure employment with a global company

Make an impact at Serco

As a Maintenance Technician (Marine Mechanic) in the Defence Marine Support Services (DMSS) team, you’ll make a positive impact by supporting the safe operation and maintenance of various sized vessels and equipment. This role is crucial to ensuring that our Defence clients can operate effectively and safely. You’ll work closely with the site management team and interact with a range of stakeholders, including other DMSS team members, Commonwealth representatives, and contractors.

As a Maintenance Technician (Marine Mechanic), you’ll make a positive impact by:

• Ensuring timely completion of work orders in line with your skills and qualifications
• Assisting in vessel and equipment maintenance, including machinery spaces
• Conducting repairs in areas such as diesel fitting, pneumatics, and electrical works
• Providing Operator Level Maintenance (OLM) training to Commonwealth representatives
• Liaising with suppliers, contractors, and vessel crews to ensure efficient asset delivery
• Supporting general seamanship duties, including berthing and unberthing vessels

Serco is a place for you

To be successful in this role you’ll have:

• Certificate III in Marine Mechanical Technology (or equivalent)
• Extensive maritime industry experience
• Current Forklift Operator’s Licence and Driver’s Licence (Class C)
• Knowledge of Royal Australian Navy operating practices and procedures - desirable
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Intermediate to advanced MS Office skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Current First Aid Certificate
• Ability to obtain and maintain a minimum of Defence Security Clearance – Baseline.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Maritime Security Identification Card (MSIC) where required by the business.

As a fast-growing and successful global company, Serco’s services span across the areas of justice, migration, defence, space, customer services, health, and urban mobility. In joining us, you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals. Here, you will appreciate a flexible approach to work-life that comes with working at a company with long-term government-backed contracts.

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?
At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.

We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in health, defence, maritime, justice, immigration, and community services.

Impact a better future at Serco.