Competitive salary packages | Medical and dental cover | A good work/life balance | Career development and progression | Advanced technology | World-class education and training

Enjoy a diverse hospitality and logistics role that includes bar and table service, canteen management, inventory management, and a variety of general ships duties.

About the Job

Your role as a Hospitality and Logistics Support Submariner (known in the Navy as Maritime Logistics Support Operations Submariner) requires you to deliver hospitality services and support operations on board a submarine at sea. The main aspects of this role can be broken down to three main areas: hospitality, business and logistics, and capability support.

This is a dynamic position where you’ll be in service in more ways than one. In addition to your core hospitality and logistical duties, you’ll also take on a key support role onboard in the areas of medical assistance and first responder for any incidents on board.

You’ll gain skills in a wide variety of areas. Some of these include, but aren’t limited to:

• Hotel and canteen management services
• Personal valet for the Commanding Officer
• Food service
• Event management
• Finance and accounting of the submarine's canteen operations

After your initial training, you’ll be employed primarily in table and food services, while dealing with business transactions through the submarine's canteen. If you progress to the level of Senior Sailor, you’ll get all the necessary hotel management, business and logistical skills to run a small business, along with opportunities to travel overseas. There are also job prospects in other areas, including working as a personal assistant to VIPs such as the Governor General and Chief of Navy.

National Qualifications

Logistics and Hospitality Support are awarded a Certificate III in Hospitality through Holmesglen TAFE on successful completion of initial category training.

Opportunity exists for Logistics and Hospitality Support to gain further qualifications throughout their career.

Qualifications or units of competency achieved from Navy delivered training are issued by the Royal Australian Navy, which is a nationally Registered Training Organisation.

Salary & Alloances 

In the Navy you'll get paid a good salary from day one regardless of your age, experience or qualifications; and your pay increases as you progress through training.

In addition to base pay you'll receive a variety of allowances - which are detailed below - plus superannuation at a far higher rate than you're likely to find in the civilian world.

Locations

On completion of IET, you will generally be based at HMAS Stirling on Garden Island, Western Australia less than an hours drive south of Perth.

Sailors can also serve in establishments HMAS Kuttabul and HMAS Watson in Sydney, HMAS Stirling in Western Australia and HMAS Cairns.

Sea positions exist on both the eastern and western sea board, as well as Cairns.

As you progress into management, the positions available expand to include Darwin.

Age

Applicants must be aged between 17 and 54 years of age inclusive on day of entry.

Applicants will not be allowed to enter the ADF until they achieve a minimum of 17 years of age, however they may be able to initiate the application process from 16 years and six months of age, depending upon the capacity of their local recruiting centre.

Education & Experience

For Logistics and Hospitality Support, the minimum educational standard is successful completion of Year 10 level, with passes in English and Mathematics.

Citizenship

Only Australian Citizens are permitted to serve in the ADF.

If you are a permanent resident of Australia, the ADF may consider a temporary deferral of the citizenship requirement if the position for which you are applying cannot be filled by an applicant who meets all the citizenship requirements, and then only in exceptional circumstances. You will be required to obtain Australian Citizenship as early as possible following enlistment or appointment.

Medical & Fitness

To be appointed, you must be medically and physically fit for entry into the ADF. This is partially assessed from the completion of an extensive questionnaire covering your medical history, followed by a physical examination.

You will also be required to successfully pass a physical fitness test before appointment.

For more details on medical and physical fitness standards refer to Physical Fitness Standards for Entry into the ADF, Medical Process for Entry into the ADF and Physical Employment Standards once you're in the ADF.

You must also pass the swim test and physical fitness test to graduate from your Navy Training and to proceed to the Safety of Life at Sea Training that is a requirement for Recruit School and Officer training.

Royal Australian Navy Swim Test (RANST)

The RANST is conducted to ensure the Navy's duty of care to all serving personnel, with respect to rudimentary swimming skills. The purpose of the RANST is to ensure fundamental water survival skills as a prerequisite to training such as survival at sea training.

Individual components of the RANST are fundamentally related to the survival at sea scenario. Competency in the RANST is achieved through successful completion of each component comprising:

• A safety jump off a 3m tower in overalls
• A 10m underwater swim in overalls
• A 50m swim using three safety strokes
• The ability to tread water or float for 15 mins in overalls

Note: You will find it much easier to pass the swimming test if you undertake swimming training before you join.

All personnel will undertake the RANST upon entry and competency is to be achieved within 15 weeks from commencement of initial training. Failure of any one component will constitute failure of the entire RANST and no waivers will be granted.

Aptitude

The application process to join the Australian Defence Force requires you to complete a series of aptitude tests which may include verbal, spatial and numerical ability and a general maths test. Some jobs may also require you to complete additional testing at a later date.

Psychology support staff will explain what is involved with each test.

The aptitude tests provide information about your suitability for the Defence Force and for particular jobs. Defence Force Recruiting can then help you identify jobs that best match your abilities.

Security

The security clearance is critical to an applicant’s successful progression through to Navy employment and training. It is strongly recommended that all applicants provide the required documents as early as possible in the recruiting process to avoid any delays in their training and employment.

Military Training

Duration: 11 weeks. Location: Crib Point, Victoria

The Recruit School at HMAS Cerberus is situated on Western Port Bay, Victoria about 70 kilometres south east of Melbourne. The school has its own administration building, accommodation blocks and classrooms and operates as an independent unit within the greater training environment of Cerberus.

The eleven week recruit course is designed to give you sufficient knowledge and skills on which to base your Navy career. The course includes both classroom and practical activities. Most subjects are individually tested. Examinations are set to ensure recruits are sufficiently prepared to undertake further specialist training at category schools. Private study areas are available in the school and a Duty Instructor is available for assistance during non-instructional hours.

Recruits, who successfully complete the course including the Navy Swimming Test , participate in a Graduation Parade, which is normally held on the Friday of the last week of training. Recruits will have the opportunity to invite family and friends to view the parade.

After graduation, personnel will be posted to category schools at Cerberus or at other training establishments throughout Australia.

During Military (Initial Recruit) Training and Initial Employment Training (IET), members may be required to pay a contribution towards meals, accommodation and utilities, depending on a number of factors.

Employment Training

ADF Initial Support Operations Course - 8 Weeks

The Initial ML-S Operators Course is conducted at a civilian TAFE in Victoria in conjunction with the ADF School of Catering, HMAS Cerberus, Westernport Victoria. The course concentrates on the acquisition of catering skills necessary to perform the tasks of a ML-S. The training is divided into two phases.

Phase One: An eight week intensive TAFE course (outsourced to a civilian TAFE in Victoria) focusing on developing trainees in the skills required by the Industry and ADF Competency standards. Initial ML-S are signed up in a Traineeship with Apprenticeships Victoria and will be awarded a civilian qualification upon completion of this phase. The Trainees will complete the following modules that comprise Defence Enterprise standards:

• Work effectively with others
• Show social and cultural sensitivity
• Participate in safe work practices
• Source and use information on the hospitality industry
• Use hygienic practices for food safety
• Prepare simple dishes
• Clean kitchen premises and equipment
• Receive and store stock
• Work effectively in hospitality services
• Prepare appetisers and salads
• Serve food and beverage to customers
• Provide Responsible Service of Alcohol
• Produce dishes using basic methods of cookery
• Participate in safe food handling practices
• Use food preparation equipment
• Clean and tidy bar areas
• Operate a bar
• Process financial transactions
• Coach others in job skills
• Manage conflict and
• Provide service to customers

On completion of the ADF Initial Support Operations Course trainees are awarded the Certificate III in Hospitality through Holmesglen Institute.

Phase Two: ML-S Sailors will then conduct Maritime specific training at Cerberus for eight days. This comprises the following modules:

• Provide valet service
• Wardroom and canteen waste control procedures
• RAN stewarding skills and knowledge
• Provide housekeeping services
• Basic service funds theory and
• Basic service funds systems

Phase Three: ML-S Sailors will conduct Ships Medical Emergency Team Training at either HMAS Penguin or Stirling for a period of 10 days. This course comprises of:

• Conduct complete casualty assessment and determine injuries and treatment priorities
• Ventilate a patient using Pocket mask, Air-viva Oxy-viva
• Perform First Aid treatment for a trauma victim
• Perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
• Perform First Aid for casualty's envenomated by venomous creatures
• Describe in writing the First Aid treatment for a patient suffering - Hypothermia and Hyperthermia
• Manage a casualty with chemical, radiation or atmospheric contaminated related injuries
• Prepare Battle Dressing Station / Emergency Operating Station to receive casualties
• Prepare medications for administration as directed by Medical Staff
• Prepare an Intravenous Therapy Line for infusion and maintain drip flow rate and
• Participate in a Mass Casualty Incident

On completion of training, rated Seaman ML-S will be posted to Navy establishments or ships in FBE Sydney or FBW Western Australia.

Further Training

Within the training framework, personnel in the ADF must comply with Competency Based Training Assessment that certifies personnel progression through maintenance of a Capability Evidence Journal. ML-S who successfully complete and are competitive for promotion may be selected to return to the ADF School of Catering for further training.

The ML-S Supervisors course (as a guide, this can be achieved approximately 4 years after category training) is provided for Able Seaman promoting to Leading Seaman. The training focuses on developing the following skills:

• Supervisory accounting, business and logistics practices
• Hygiene practices
• Event Management and
• Supervision of people

Successful completion of ML-S Supervisors Course and

Leading Seaman Promotion Course (LSPC) will satisfy eligibility for promotion to Leading Seamen Support Operations.

Advanced training through the ML-S Managers Course is provided for Leading Seaman promoting to Petty Officer (as a guide, this can be achieved approximately 8 years after category training). The training focuses on developing the following skills:

• Accounting small Business (Advanced)
• Develop and Implement Operational Plans
• Canteen and Mess through Small Business Management training
• Manage Human Resources
• Contract Management and
• Provide Quality Client Service

Successful completion of ML-S Managers Course and Petty Officers Promotion Course (POPC) will satisfy eligibility for promotion to Petty Officer Support Operations.

Completion of the Chief Petty Officer Promotion Course (CPOPC) will satisfy eligibility for promotion to Chief Petty Officer Support Operations (as a guide, promotion to Chief Petty Officer can be achieved approximately 12 years after category training).

Completion of the Warrant Officers Promotion Course (WOPC) will satisfy eligibility for promotion to Warrant Officer (as a guide, promotion to Warrant Officer can be achieved approximately 17 years after category training). Further training may be required though specified posting requirements.