Rachael Crozier

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(Rachael Crozier) A normal day for me at work,

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I get into the office about 8.30am.

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At Aurizn we work for Australian and Allied Defence Forces.

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Our employees are engineers, scientists, programmers

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from all disciplines and we’re working together to come up with

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creative solutions to problems that we see in the world today.

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As a software engineer, programming is a huge part of my day

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and I can easily spend hours falling down a rabbit hole,

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trying to solve a bug.

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But before I get into that I’m going to go make a coffee.

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You don’t have to have it all figured out.

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It’s OK to fail.

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You are allowed to get things wrong.

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You’re allowed to not know everything.

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Just try. Just give it go.

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Follow what excites you and see where it leads.

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In the morning our whole team gets together and does a quick catch-up

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and syncs up with the work that we are doing

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and if we’ve got any blockers with that work.

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Aurizn is really collaborative.

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Even when you’re assigned a task to work on on your own

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that doesn’t mean you’re working on it by yourself.

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You have always got a team of people working alongside you.

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Let’s go get some lunch.

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When I was younger I really had no idea that engineering was out there.

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My Year 11 and 12 physics teacher

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was the one that introduced me to engineering as a career.

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He saw my passion for maths and for physics in particular,

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being able to really think outside of the box,

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to come up with novel solutions to really complex problems

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that you can’t just Google the answer.

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We’re coming up with stuff that no-one has ever solved before.

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Probably the most exciting part of my day

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is not knowing what problem I’m going to have to solve.

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There is always a variety of work to do and that is really exciting.

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My work contributes in the Defence industry in a multitude of ways.

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Primarily it is supporting the people that make decisions

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to keep our future safe and secure.

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That was a great meeting.

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It is time for a break.

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I love the challenging aspects of maths and science.

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A lot of the creativity that came from me playing with Lego as a child

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has fed into my work in being able to

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come up with different ways to approach different problems.

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I use maths skills,

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science skills,

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specifically physics is my primary science that I use.

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Creativity is another really important skill set

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that I find useful in my work.

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A lot of my colleagues have actually come from game development

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and video game backgrounds and they’ve been able to transition

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into engineering and STEM careers

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using that as a background.

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STEM really opened doors for me that I never imagined.

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At the end of the day

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it is nice to know that my team and I have helped build something new

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that has a real world impact.

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