Energy Queensland
Instrumentation & Control Engineering Graduate (Feb 2025)
Brisbane, Cairns, Rockhampton
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Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 103,000 - 138,000 / Year
- 14.75% superannuation + Annual salary entitlement increases
- 3-9 vacancies
- Apply by 25 Aug 2024
- Start date 2 Feb 2025
Energy Queensland is the group of electricity distribution, retail, and energy services businesses 100% owned by the state of Queensland. We deliver electricity across Queensland through our ‘poles and wires’ businesses Energex and Ergon Energy Network. Our retailer, Ergon Energy Retail sells this electricity to customers throughout regional Queensland. These essential service activities are supported by a range of innovative products and services delivered through our Yurika brand.
We’re seeking highly motivated individuals with an Instrumentation & Control Engineering qualification recognised by an institution within Australia.
Our Program
Start your career and be part of the innovation and transformation shaping the energy market of the future. Join our 3-year graduate program and be part of a culture that empowers you to take charge of your own development and career direction.
- Work within Australia’s largest electricity network, serving 2.25 million customers.
- Participate in a unique three-year program offering diverse working and learning experiences.
- Complete 6-month rotational placements in a range of specialisations and parts of the business to broaden your skills set and knowledge of the energy sector.
- Develop future focused technical, business and leadership skills.
- Complete challenging work assignments under the expert supervision of senior leaders and technical specialists.
- Work towards becoming a Registered Professional Engineer Queensland (RPEQ) in partnership with Engineers Education Australia (EEA).
- Maintain a healthy work-life balance with a 9-day fortnight, and an attractive commencing salary of $103k per annum plus 14.75% superannuation.
- Secure full time, permanent employment as part of the program.
Relevant locations
- Brisbane (Newstead)
- Cairns
- Rockhampton
- Toowoomba
- Townsville.
Your new role
- You’ll provide engineering support to your assigned workgroup by undertaking specific investigations, risk-based assessments, engineering research and analysis, design and/or providing project assistance as required.
- Participate in, development opportunities provided and sponsored by the Graduate Engineer Development Program e.g., coursework, seminars, and team activities.
- Take ownership for career planning and personal development while working with your allocated mentor, including, monitoring, and reviewing progress against performance criteria to ensure you have the skills required to grow your career.
- Contribute to the completion of project/team deliverables through the timely application of engineering research, modelling, techniques, and methods to allocated tasks.
About you
You’re imaginative, passionate, and motivated to succeed in your career. You work safely, think creatively, embrace diversity, and want to engage, to listen, learn and expand your knowledge.
- You’re about to or have recently graduated (within the last two (2) years), with a Bachelor of Engineering from an institution recognised within Australia with a strong academic record.
- You are a great collaborator and communicator and enjoy working in an inclusive and supportive team.
- You aren’t afraid to stand out in a crowd and you are known for your growth mindset and adaptive and innovative thinking.
- You’re an Australian or New Zealand citizen, or an Australian permanent resident.
Why work with us
It's an exciting time to join us and to be involved in the energy sector, here’s what you’ll experience:
- Secure employment backed by a strong collective agreement, with yearly EBA increases.
- Strong 14.75% superannuation and the ability to earn more with salary sacrifice co-contributions.
- Opportunities to develop expertise and a broad portfolio of skills such as electrical engineering, alternative and renewable energy solutions, and smart grid technologies to guide the energy industry's transition from coal to renewables.
- One-on-one leadership support, with your own mentor to work with you for the length of the program.
- Professional development opportunities in technical and business disciplines, exposing you to current, emerging and future technologies and best practice.
- A chance to give back with a paid employee volunteering program allowing you to support communities across QLD.
- Support and guidance with access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Program.
- A safety-first culture, the safety of our people, customers & communities is a core priority.
- Diversity and Inclusion where all employees can contribute towards multiple diversity and inclusion initiatives across our business.
Our recruitment process
- Submit your online application.
- Complete online assessments.
- Complete a video interview.
- Attend a panel interview.
- Reference checks.
- Offer of employment.
Our commitment to all of Queensland and its Diversity
Energy Queensland is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds who meet the eligibility to apply.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- IT & Computer Science
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
My role is very satisfying as I am able to see the benefit that my work has, and I feel like the work I do is meaningful. My responsibility as a graduate is to achieve the objectives of the teams that I am in for the 6 months that I am in that team.
As a graduate my responsibilities include learning modules and workshops, and the tasks/objectives set between myself and my supervisor. There aren't many day-to-day task as my workload is often changing.
As mentioned, as a graduate who is rotating around the different departments this will more often than not come back to the supervisor I am working under. My first supervisor needs training/more training to properly engage and instruct a graduate engineer.
About the employer
Energy Queensland
4.5
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Energy & Utilities
Define your career at the front line of the energy sector's biggest ever transformation. We have unique opportunities across Qld to build your career.
Pros and cons of working at Energy Queensland
Pros
The pay is fantastic for a graduate and well above any other companies that I am aware of.
Great balance of work and life having flexible start and finish times, along with a 9-day fortnight.
Good level of emphasis on learning and developing fundamentals prior to being thrust into just deliverables.
The opportunity to gain a wide variety of experience across multiple engineering teams.
The culture is very good in the company. Most people have the mindset to foster learning and development of themselves and others.
Cons
Change can be slow within the business. Due to inefficiencies in historic processes, availability of data and regulation, it can be challenging at times for progress to be made.
The worst thing about working for the company is the travel to the office but, there is work from home opportunities available.
Some work may only be available in certain locations across the state.
I struggle to find something to put here... No biscuits in the tea room...
Change can be slow within the business. Due to inefficiencies in historic processes, availability of data and regulation, it can be challenging at times for progress to be made.