Transpower
2023 Graduate Power Systems / Electrical Engineers (Jan 2023)
Wellington
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Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- NZD 60,000 - 62,000 / Year
- Base + Benefits + KiwiSaver
- 3-9 vacancies
- Apply by 1 May 2022
- Start date 30 Jan 2023
Transpower graduates develop the technical expertise, skills, and behaviour necessary to succeed in engineering roles throughout the business.
They complete a circa two-year rotational programme, with regular coaching and mentoring from a range of experts, that will provide an overview of Power System careers at Transpower. They may be part of:
- The crew completing the annual HVDC outage
- Modelling generator control systems and investigating power system events
- Identifying and studying risks to system operations - short, medium, and long term
- Analysing grid and generation outages to ensure they don't cause undue operational risk
- Helping to plan and size the Transmission Grid of the future
Building relationships across the business, our graduates rotate through different engineering areas to gain both technical understanding and depth, and outstanding people skills - along with a good understanding of both internal and external customers.
Ultimately, our grads explore where and how they wish to shape their Engineering careers with us.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- New Zealand Temporary Work Visa +more
- Engineering & Mathematics
- Bachelor or higher
- 5.5 GPA (5 point)
Reviews
Engineering support for various projects. As a grad, you get great exposure to the variety of work that Transpower undertakes, and you get to add value by being part of different projects and tasks. I'm using a lot of PLS-CADD to ensure that our assets are complying with the safety standards. Also working on several investigation projects to minimise safety risks. Also, working on concept assessments which require collaboration and high level design work.
With the Graduate programme, I am doing a lot of training and learning which I am enjoying. I am able to take my time with my learning which is good for me
Interesting tasks. The work feels relevant and meaningful.
About the employer
Transpower
4.2
500 - 1,000 employees
Energy & Utilities
Transpower is the national grid operator. It takes a whole-of-industry view of the electricity sector and operates the system on behalf of NZers.
Pros and cons of working at Transpower
Pros
The people are really supportive and are always willing to help you out.
Graduates can be given numerous opportunities to see the many different assets that Transpower owns and operates.
Transpower has 7 am-7 pm office hours and is very flexible as long as you communicate and get your work done.
There is a strong community of young professionals and plenty of opportunities to socialise with colleagues after work.
There is a whole sustainability group, with projects like recycling glass insulators and volunteer days to plant trees.
Cons
The workload can fluctuate based on the placement team.
Has the ability to work from home but that's a discussion to have with the manager, highly recommended coming into the office for better engagement and development.
In the graduate programme, graduates are given a taste of doing design work, but this is only offered through a brief 2-month placement at an external engineering consultancy.
Ambiguity of my role within the business.
The graduate programme was a bit disorganised this year as placements were only finalised 3 months after we started.