Career Prospects at Raytheon Australia

No opportunities for "promotion" yet but have moved between streams quite easily (PM to ENG) and this resulted in a pay rise

Promotion opportunities are quite rigid. You must progress to the next P level by meeting certain requirements. This is a benefit in some ways as it means you know exactly what to do to move up. However, it can be difficult to tick off some of these points as often you are locked in to your project and it might not be at a stage where you can obtain this experience. For example, you might be missing 'requirements writing' and your project is passed that stage.

As an engineer, you can stay in a technical role and work up to subject matter expert or chief engineer etc. or you can move into a management role such as engineering manager or technical director.

Raytheon is quite structured in it's promotions, there is a competency assessment that you must fill out and you must achieve a certain degree of competencies before you are promoted. It gives you something to aim for and a guide for where you should be developing if you do not get promoted straight away. There are also weekly emails detailing open positions should you not be happy in your current position.

I believe there are avenues to progress within Raytheon, either in the technical expert route or the manager route. For the near future, I will be continuing the graduate program, then after the two years, will progress to an Engineer, then Senior Engineer, etc.