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Transpower

4.4
  • 500 - 1,000 employees

2024 Graduate Operations Planning Engineers null

Wellington

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Put the theory and first principles you have learnt into practice, gain new skills and play a part in shaping the future of NZ's electricity sector.

Opportunity details

Opportunity Type
Graduate Job
Number of Vacancies
3-9
Salary
NZD 60,000 - 62,000 / Year

Base + Benefits + Kiwisaver

Application dates

Minimum requirements

Accepting International Applications
No
Qualifications Accepted
E
Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Hiring criteria

Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Electrical engineering or other relevant discipline e.g. Mechatronics/Computer Systems Engineering

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Working rights

New Zealand

  • New Zealand Citizen
  • New Zealand Permanent Resident
  • New Zealand Temporary Work Visa
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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:

  • Ensuring a secure and reliable grid by assessing daily risks and longer-term issues
  • Conducting assessment and coordination of outages to enable secure and efficient access to the power system
  • Reviewing plans to enable commissioning of new power system assets, and assessing the impact of assets or network changes to our models
  • Liaising with Transmission Analysts or planners in generation or other power system companies
  • Providing plans, advice and data for the real-time control room teams on operational engineering to maintain system security

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

You should have or be completing the following to apply for this opportunity.

Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Electrical engineering or other relevant discipline e.g. Mechatronics/Computer Systems Engineering
Degree or Certificate
Minimum Level of Study
Bachelor (Honours) or higher
Study Field
E
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Engineering & Mathematics (all other)

Work rights

The opportunity is available to applicants in any of the following categories.

country
eligibility

New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand Citizen

New Zealand Permanent Resident

New Zealand Temporary Work Visa


Graduate Success Stories


  • Graduate stories
The programme gives you the chance to try so many different roles that you wouldn’t get to normally do.

Bhavish Kumar

  • Graduate stories
The Programme was filled to the brim with courses, events and other opportunities for learning. Knowing that I had backing and help from my supervisors and team members meant that I felt more confident to push myself and try new tasks.

Meg Fahey