The division wants women and men who will mainly work to ensure Australia’s research stations remain operational. Unlike summers when an Antarctic station can have as many as 100 people on site, those numbers drop dramatically to about 20 in the winter.
“It's a long list when you look at the list of machinery on station and from a trades perspective, you won't find a job like it anywhere else in the world,” says Amy Chetcuti, an expedition mechanic. “I definitely came home with a lot more skills than I went down with, and not just skills within my trade, but in things like hydroponic vegetables and helping out in the kitchen as well as helping other trades.”