Our graduate programs

Applications for our next intake open March 2023.

Degree required: Bachelor or Master of Engineering (Electrical Engineering)

You’ll have the opportunity to gain experience in a variety of areas including:

• Network planning: optimising the network to meet the needs of customers and communities
• Network strategy: shaping a network for the future as the energy industry evolves
• Distribution and substation design: helping design and develop new assets for construction
• Asset management: implementing policies and processes to ensure our assets meet business requirements
• Commissioning: incorporating new equipment into the network
• Control and operations: maintaining the network and enhancing operational excellence
• Solar farm operations and performance: exposure to the wide variety of engineering works available
• Project engineering: providing technical input for all aspects of a project
• Project management: delivering projects to maintain network safety, reliability and security

Expressions of interest open March 2023.  Applications for our next intake open July 2023.

Degree required: Graduates from a wide range of degree disciplines such as Business, Economics, Commerce, Law, and Arts, can apply to this stream. You’ll have the opportunity to work in a stream based on your qualifications and interests, plus the opportunity to rotate across a range of teams to expand your capabilities. We offer graduate placements in the following business areas:

1. Business strategy, innovation and customer experience
2. Regulation

Rotations may include:

• Business strategy: contribute to initiative that improve business and customer outcomes
• Digital innovation: gain exposure to value assessments, technology analysis and experimentation
• Customer experience and operations: develop an understanding of our customer strategy and customers’ experiences and interactions with us, and our customer experience improvement approach
• Regulatory resets: develop an understanding of the development and rigour required to prepare expenditure business cases to support a regulatory reset proposal
• Pricing and revenue analysis: understand the principles involved in setting network tariffs and monitoring their effectiveness on customer behaviour
• Compliance and reporting: learn the economic regulatory framework in which the businesses operate and reporting obligations to maintain our licences.

Rotations outside of your stream may include:

• Corporate affairs and stakeholder engagement
• Field operations
• Health, safety, environment and sustainability
• Human resources.

Expressions of interest open March 2023.  Applications for our next intake open July 2023.

Degree required: Bachelor or Master of Commerce or Business with a major in Accounting, Finance, Economics or similar.

Capture and analyse data essential for day-to-day reporting and medium to long term business decisions.  The program is designed to assist you with achieving Chartered Accounting/Certified Practicing Accounting status, while developing extensive knowledge of the energy market industry. We offer graduate placements in the following business areas:

1. Financial Accounting
2. Finance Business Partnering
3. Taxation
4. Revenue Management

Rotations may include:

• Financial accounting & reporting: application of core accounting principles, preparation of annual statutory accounts and monthly financial reports, gain exposure to month end, financial audits and cash flow management.
• Business partnering and management reporting: introduction to key business value drivers and business partnering concepts, preparation of business performance reports together with analysis to be provided to management and gain exposure to finance ERP systems.
• Financial planning and budgeting: assist in preparation of annual budgets, monthly forecasting and strategic financial planning.
• Taxation: understand income tax and indirect tax compliance and reporting, preparation of BAS, GST, FBT and income tax returns.
• Revenue management: gain exposure to billing, meter data and debtor operations, understand how underlying data flows from network assets to financials, undertake data validation and reconciliation.

We welcome international students to apply for our Graduate Program, however you are required to meet the following eligibility criteria:

• You will hold an Australian student visa in January 2023 or have held an Australian student visa since January 2022
• You will have completed a Bachelor degree or higher by December 2023
• The degree was completed in Australia for at least the last two years
• You are currently residing lawfully in Australia and have always complied with Australian immigration requirements
• You have completed an English language test in the last 24 months and have obtained a ‘Proficient’ level of English, as set by the Department of Home Affairs (unless exempt)
• You agree to submit an application either immediately upon completing your degree for either a Temporary Graduate (Subclass 485) visa in the Post-Study Work Stream or the Skilled – Independent (subclass 189) visa
• We will not sponsor students for the purposes of residency. Successful candidates who are not permanent residents when made a graduate offer will be required to independently apply for and obtain permanent residency.

February 2024.