Offered across both at a Graduate Engineer (Electrical & Civil) and Graduate Engineering Officer (Electrical) level, our engineering programs offer unique opportunities to grow and build your skills & knowledge through diverse rotations.
We welcome graduates with degrees or double degrees in Civil, Electrical & Mechatronic engineering who are passionate about the power system and are keen to develop a career in energy.
We offer dynamic programs, from 2-4 years, with placements across a range of 50+ teams rotating through four core areas: Systems, Design, Field and Delivery/Projects. Additional elective options are also on offer, before we support your transition into a role off-program within Powerlink.
- Graduate Electrical Engineers: rotate in 6-month placements through 4x Core areas over 2-years with 1+ year/s for additional electives.
- Graduate Engineering Officers (Electrical): rotate in 6-month placements through 4x Core areas over 2-years - with the option for additional electives if nominated.
- Graduate Civil Engineers: rotate in 12-month placements through 3x Core Areas over 3-years – with the option for additional electives if nominated.
With a range of teams and distinct activities within them, these are some of our main rotation areas:
Systems
You’ll focus on how technology, strategy and future planning coming together to play a key role in the power system, working alongside some of the leading minds in their field, with a front row seat in the energy transition in teams including Grid Planning, Portfolio Planning & Optimisation, Renewable Connections, Synchronous Connections, Power System Performance, Asset Management Systems, Substation Strategies, Lines Strategies, Secondary Systems & Telecommunications Strategies, Operations Planning, Incident Management and Strategic & Future Network Operations.
Design
Working alongside our highly experienced in-house design engineers, you’ll gain valuable experience in core design principles and their application to Queensland’s high-voltage transmission network, in teams including Protection Systems Design, Secondary Systems Design, Substation Design, Lines Design, Telecommunications Design and Major Projects Design.
Field
Gaining valuable time in the field, you’ll be out and about - with the opportunity to travel onsite to projects and gain firsthand experience in the delivery and commissioning of new assets or through applied operational engineering and maintenance of our network with teams including Delivery, Commissioning, Telecommunications Commissioning, Asset Integrity & Performance Solutions, Primary Systems Field Engineering and Secondary Systems Field Engineering.
Delivery
As part of the teams delivering some of the states largest energy infrastructure projects, you’ll gain skills and experience in project management, construction and project engineering in teams including Network Customer Solutions, Regulated Projects, Construction, Construction Methodologies, Design Management, Major Customer Projects, Major Projects Delivery, CopperString Project Construction and CopperString Project Engineering.