Career Prospects at Lockheed Martin Australia

Additional development programs are available after the grad program. Promotion off of the graduate program is guaranteed but beyond that is performance based. They have different streams mixing between management and pure engineering.

Promotions are very structured, more time-based than merit-based

Career progression is very self motivated and is best done by being persistent. Opportunities for graduates are very low however as the company prefers others even if they have no experience with the project

Certainly opportunity, but the jumps take slightly too long

Especially in a technical role, you have to prove that you are capable of designing and building critical code for software solutions, and can lead a team of software engineers to build better end-products. Where I work at the moment, you start as a Software Engineer Associate (essentially a graduate), then after a year you become a Software Engineer, followed by Software Engineer Senior once your manager believes you've gained the appropriate levels of knowledge to maintain the responsibilities of the role. Once you have reached this stage, you can either move further into the Managerial space, or continue on and attempt to become a Lockheed Martin fellow

Ranks are about proving yourself, you must work hard to get further

Career progression naturally occurs as time and experience grow. Good prospects for senior roles.

Promotion is not really possible outside of moving from Associate to a full Software Engineer I believe, but there is possibilities for better roles once you have experience.