Australian Navy offers $120k Nuclear Submarine Officer role with strange detail

The Australian Navy is advertising roles with a hefty salary and generous benefits – but there’s an interesting detail that’s sure to raise some eyebrows.

The Australian Navy is recruiting Nuclear Submarine Officers, offering a hefty salary and generous benefits with no prior military experience required.

A job advertisement on Seek encourages applicants to “be a part of history, working with conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines” and “oversee day-to-day operations” in the Navy.

The roles are based in Melbourne and Sydney.

“Whether you have recently finished school, currently studying, already in the workforce or you have no experience at all, we’re hiring,” the job ad posted by the Australian Defence Force states.

The Australian Navy is advertising roles for a Nuclear Submarine Officer with a generous salary of up to $120,000. Picture: NewsWire

“You’ll be paid from day one to gain all the skills needed with extensive on-the-job training.”

The job offers a full-time salary between $110,000-$120,000.

The role also offers 16.4 per cent superannuation, subsidised housing, and salary increases upon progress through training and ranks.

Interestingly, the job does not state prior military experience is required.

Rather, it states: “Upon completion of your initial military and employment training, you’ll enjoy a salary package starting from $113,239.”

“Your training will first equip you with technical expertise in nuclear propulsion, the platform, and its equipment,” the job posting states.

“You will then move into your submarine qualification and oversee day-to-day operations, and you could one day lead the entire crew as Commanding Officer.”

Duties on the job range from maintenance of the lighting, alarms, electricity and power systems on the sub.

The job posting also states it will be a requirement to “maintain an ongoing level of fitness” and undertake military training.

Australia is set to build five of nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS agreement with the United States and United Kingdom.

The job posting does not state prior experience is required, but applicants will need to pass a medical and fitness test and complete ‘initial military and employment training’. Picture: Supplied NewsWire

The controversial program has attracted criticism for its proposed cost, which is estimated to be between $268bn to $368bn.

The first three US nuclear power submarines would be transferred by early 2030s should the US meet its own production targets of 2.3 vessels per year, up from a current average of 1.2.

The Australian Submarine Corporation (ASC) and multinational defence firm BAE Systems recently entered into a joint venture agreement to begin drawing up plans and schedules for the SSN-AUKUS build program.

Under the decades-long program, Australia is set to build up to five of the nuclear-powered submarines at Osborne Naval Shipyard in Adelaide, with the first tipped to be ready by the early 2040s.

Originally published as Australian Navy offers $120k Nuclear Submarine Officer role with strange detail