As a child and pre-teen I’d constantly help my dad with any home projects making me realise my passion for all things hands-on! Getting into high school I had a taste of woodworks, metal works etc which made me choose engineering as one of my subjects from year 9 to year 12.

During high school the more I learnt about the industry the more it intrigued me even if it is considered a male dominated profession – which was clearly evident as I was 1 or 2 girls in my engineering class. After I graduated I pursued Mechanical Engineering at university hoping it would take me out to the hangar and tarmac, though after a year I realised it wasn’t the path that’d take me where I wanted. I stopped my course and started searing for something else.

After searching I came across a TAFE course for Aeroskills Cert 2, enrolled in it and I absolutely loved it!

I was able to apply for the Boeing Female Apprenticeship Program and even more lucky to have been selected as part of the first intake that started in September 2022.

This apprenticeship for me meant progressing further into my dream career but it also meant having to move away from family as I moved states for this job and qualification. Though there are bittersweet moments the job in itself has been a dream, and honestly so much better than what I had thought. I can’t wait to finish the apprenticeship and see what the future holds for me!

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It is important to support and communicate with different people, including other engineering teams, suppliers (where and who to get parts from), and assembly workers who are putting the parts together. 

A big part of engineering is about solving problems and coming up with a better way to do things, which can mean looking into interesting, new technologies and innovations, like 3D printing for example.

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When I graduated high school, my focus was on becoming a pilot in the Australian Defence Force. Unfortunately, this pathway wasn’t meant to be so I starting looking into engineering.

I enrolled to study Mechanical Engineering at QUT in 2014, and made the move from my home-town of Toowoomba, to Brisbane. 

After two years of full-time study, I was offered a Cadetship back in Toowoomba at mining/manufacturing company. I continued my studies part-time, online at UniSQ, while working full-time. This was a great way to study and gain industry experience.

Upon completing my degree, I continued on with my first employer as a Graduate Engineer. I worked there for a total of 6.5 years, up until I started at Boeing in mid-2022. Now here I am, working as an engineer in the industry I’ve always strived to be a part of.

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This means that the types of problems aerospace structural engineers can work on are vast and varying; for example, early-stage technologies involve research and development of new, futuristic concepts alongside hands-on build and test of prototypes. Later in the aircraft design cycle, both in-service and during production, structural engineers rapidly address defects to keep production lines stable and aircraft usable.  

Structural engineers work closely with other engineering disciplines such as aerodynamics, systems, avionics, manufacturing, and materials. Together these teams develop aircraft technologies that help connect and protect the world.

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No career path is a straight-line; the twists and turns on mine have led me to study, work and live overseas as well as work on cutting-edge technologies across different military and passenger aircraft. Currently at Boeing, I am a structural analysis engineer where I work within a team of engineers to solve aircraft design problems.

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I work with Engineers and/or Business leaders to optimise the design of products or environments so the human can thrive.

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Firstly, the customer provides “engineering requirements” which is their way of saying what they want/need the product to be.

The Techinical Lead Engineer then takes the requirements and comes up with a design. The design needs to cover everything, including: aesthetics, hardware, electrical, and software.

Then, the Engineer and thier team start building the design. They learn along the way and make changes to the original design as they go.

When all the different bits of design start to get put together, the integration starts. This is where they have to make sure all the pieces of the puzzle fit together…it doesn’t matter how good one aspect is if it can’t work with the other bits of the product. And then finally, the product is verified. This is the test to see if the final product does everything the customer asked for in the beginning.

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Depending on the aircraft type that you work on, there are different responsibilities. Working on fast jets such at the F/A-18F Super Hornet AME LS are focused on individually fitting and maintain all the equipment that Aircrew require to fly including helmets, masks, anti-g suits and survival/ejection harness’.  

When working on Passenger and cargo aircraft, AME LS are responsible for fitting, servicing, and packing aircrew helmets and masks, passenger emergency oxygen mask systems, life jacket and survival equipment including life rafts, and packing survival food and water. 

Other equipment AME LS are responsible for include servicing location beacon radios, rescue pyrotechnics, packing parachutes and operate industrial sewing machines for the manufacture of various fabric components. 

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