Employment Location
Australian Defence Force Academy, Graduate
RAE units are located Australia wide with the major units located as follows:
- School of Military Engineering, Moorebank, (NSW);
- 6th Engineer Support Regiment, Brisbane (comprising 17th Construction Squadron, Sydney, (NSW); 21st Construction Squadron and 1st Topographical Survey Squadron, Brisbane (QLD);
- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Combat Engineer Regiments, Darwin (NT), Brisbane and Townsville (QLD).
- Incident Response Regiment, Sydney (NSW);
- Facilities Management Units, Australia wide; and
- 19 Chief Engineer Works, Randwick (NSW).
Your first posting is likely to be to a construction or combat engineering unit as a troop commander. During this posting you will command and manage an organisation comprising some 30 tradesmen and field engineer soldiers with their associated equipment and act as site engineer for the tasks performed by the Troop.
Subsequent postings are likely to include duties in the engineering design and facilities management fields. Postings back to the construction and combat units are also likely to occur throughout your career at higher levels of responsibility.
In addition to engineering associated postings, all RAE officers will also be required to perform training, administrative and logistic duties on various levels of headquarters.
Selected RAE officers regularly fill overseas postings in support of less developed countries in our region and overseas exchange officer postings with our allies.
Graduate (Reserve)
Reserve RAE units can be found in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney (21 Construction Regiment), Brisbane, Mt Isa, Townsville and Youngtown. These include Combat Engineer regiments and squadrons, and Construction regiments and squadrons.
