Hydro Tasmania Reviews

A few past grads are in the team I'm in currently, as well as one of the senior leaders is a past grad, I'm sure there are many more I don't know about so it's certainly possible

Hydro Tasmania has community partnerships with charities including: Colony 47, Volunteering Tasmania and The Smith Family. They also provide community grants up to $5,000 to Tasmanian based NFPs. I have not had the chance to work on any projects/initiatives as yet.

Friendly, polite, and understanding, big focus on safety. Teams are small, which allow you to learn more from others and provides you access to leaders. After work drinks and events are always good, but not compulsory. Value a good work/life balance.

In terms of Hydro's commitment to the things listed in the question, it is great, and Hydro is doing lots to encourage diversity. In terms of maternity/carers leave, that is covered. In terms of the actual diversity of Hydro at present, it is still (at least in engineering) very male-dominated, however, I have not noticed on my part any "anti-diversity" attitudes, so-to-speak. In fact, everyone supports increased diversity as far as I am aware of.

Depends on the day, some days will be conducting inspections in the field, to working with my hands in the field, to sorting through data in an office, to modelling and designing

My immediate manager is very accessible and helpful, although they are very busy a lot of the time. Other senior members of the team would probably fit more in the category of mentor (this is partly because my manager is a mechanical engineer whereas I am electrical).

This has changed a lot recently due to a big shift to working from home. However, the main office in Hobart is a decent facility and is undergoing recent renovations to the ground and first floors. Dress code is standard business/office attire, but there is a well established casual Friday. Hydro has various field sites with 30 different power stations. These sites all have decent facilities for the most part, but some are quite remote. Dress code for these is PPE.

Fewer rounds than other grad recruitment processes which made it easier. Only resume/cover letter, work sample, video interview, assessment centre/interview on same day. Small assessment centre was more relaxing (about 10 people vs 40 people). Lots of phone calls and emails to guide you through the process. Seemed focused on selling themselves as much as you selling yourself. E.g. told us about volunteer leave, why they value grads, etc.

Reasonable for graduates with increase each year.

Informal training is great, all the more senior employees are great and willing resource to learn from. The graduate program provides a training budget for formal training courses from external providers.

Normal working hours of 37.5 per week. This is up to you to manage, with no strict start/finish times. I would say quite flexible over all. Site work can involve much longer days for weeks/months at a time - but you get paid overtime so that almost makes up for it.

We do a lot, including a latest initiative "too good to waste" where more things are being recycled and we are producing less waste