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The Opportunity

If you are looking for an exciting and challenging career that will allow you to develop your personal and professional potential and learn from our leading experts, we encourage you to apply for a graduate opportunity in Transgrid’s Graduate Program in Strategy and Transformation.

The Graduate Program is targeted at accelerating your development preparing you to take part in some of the largest developments in the National Electricity Market’s history. 

As a Graduate in our Strategy and Transformation team, you will undertake rotations in key business areas, with access to internal and external development opportunities to enhance professional knowledge and skills. These rotations will help you create an invaluable network that helps you learn, grow, and develop.

We are looking for agile individuals who enjoy problem-solving, are goal-oriented and are committed to business excellence. You will be someone who can think laterally and is a great communicator. A team player, you will build strong working relationships with your stakeholders and teams alike. You will be someone who is in their final year of university studies or who has recently graduated and can start working in February 2025.

As a Transgrid graduate, you will:

• Work alongside bright and incredibly curious teams that are transforming the Energy Industry
• Develop an understanding of corporate and executive decision-making, setting of priorities and delivery of change
• Be supported by mentors, buddies and managers
• Develop professional skills that will help get your career off to a flying start 
• Undertake four six-month rotations in Strategy and Transformation
• Access internal and external development opportunities to enhance professional knowledge and skills 
• Build a diverse skillset from strategic thinking to business acumen to prepare you for a career in the Energy Industry
• Receive on-the-job training and supportive transition into the role
• Challenge yourself and ensure you contribute to the business

What you can expect from us:

• Structured leadership and development programs
• On-the-job training and supportive transition into the role
• Hybrid and flexible work arrangements available/ 9-day fortnight work pattern
• 20 weeks of Parental Leave (including adoption)
• 2 weeks Other Parent Leave
• Annual picnic day (additional day off)
• Salary sacrifice options for superannuation and motor vehicles (subject to ATO requirements)
• 18 days personal leave (sick /carer’s leave)
• Moving leave
• Emergency/disaster leave
• Employee Support Networks including, Energise (supporting women at Transgrid), Rise (employees who identify as LGBTQIA+) and Yarn Up (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees)

To be considered for the graduate program you will be:

• Tertiary qualified in Engineering, Finance, Business, Economics or Law
• Able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Environmentally and socially responsible
• A team player, motivated and willing to learn
• Able to think laterally and to provide input to innovative solutions to complex problems
• Able to work well with others
• A clear communicator
• Appreciative and sensitive to difference and diversity
• An Australian permanent resident or an Australian or New Zealand citizen 
• A University Graduate or Graduating at the end of 2024

Who we are

At Transgrid, our work improves the lives of millions – from lighting up sports fields, schools and homes, to powering the wheels of commerce and everything else in between. Now it’s your turn to make it happen.

Transgrid offers fulfilling careers for driven people who can help ensure that our business and the essential services we provide to consumers, the community and key stakeholders are continually improving. With us you will thrive in a collaborative environment where new ideas and knowledge sharing are encouraged, and where you’ll be supported through opportunities to develop and achieve your full potential.

This is an exciting time in the energy industry with the transition to renewable energy. Recent government policy documents outline plans to facilitate increasing transmission interconnection between states and the development of renewable energy zones.

Join us and make it happen for your career, and for the millions of Australians who rely on our services every day.