Essential Energy
Data Graduate (Feb 2026)
Sydney, Sydney
Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 86,000 - 101,000 / Year
- Plus 16% Superannuation
- 1 vacancy
- Apply by 6 Apr 2025
- Start date 1 Feb 2026 - 12 Feb 2026
We are unique
Join an organisation that values your voice, empowers your autonomy, recognises the strength in diversity, and prioritises your well-being while offering attractive remuneration and benefits. Take pride in having a meaningful impact on regional, rural and remote communities while being a pivotal player in the energy industry's future.
Graduate Opportunities
As a Data Graduate with Essential Energy, you’ll be able to build an exciting future with us. You’ll work right across the organisation, becoming recognised as a data expert, having a direct impact on driving the optimisation and improvement of product development and helping to build and construct sophisticated data processing pipelines, amongst other things.
You will have access to significant learning and development opportunities and have mentorship from within Essential Energy to develop and reach your goals. You will be part of a supportive, community-focused fast-paced environment, building your data expertise and professional networks ensuring great opportunities now and in the future.
You’ll be part of a program with Engineers Australia and have mentorship from within Essential Energy to develop and reach your goals. Your ability to take advantage of a fast-paced environment in varied parts of the business will build your technical expertise and professional networks ensuring great opportunities now and in the future.
What we offer
- Nine-day fortnight
- Competitive remuneration
- 16% Superannuation
- Engineers Australia Program
- Fitness Passport
- Corporate health plans
- Apple and Dell Employee Purchase Programs
- Flexible working arrangements
- 26 weeks paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- A range of learning and development opportunities, including leadership programs and access to LinkedIn Learning
- Fantastic local and regional career opportunities
- Relocation Assistance available to successful applicants in accordance with Essential Energy policy
The Graduate Program officially starts in February 2026, however, an earlier start is available is available for candidates who are keen to start sooner.
About you:
If you are passionate about what you do and are excited to grow your career with a supportive and inclusive team where you will have the opportunity to push boundaries to create innovative solutions to real-world problems all while making positive contributions to the community then this is the opportunity for you.
To be eligible to apply for these opportunities you will need:
- To have completed a : Bachelor of Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, Machine Learning Engineering or a related degree and
- Have Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency status.
Passionate people. Global thinking. Regional heart.
Building a better energy future.
Essential Energy is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages applicants to apply regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
As an organisation, our aim is to champion inclusivity in the workplace and celebrate the difference in all our employees.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Engineering & Mathematics +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
Engineering assessments for cable ratings and non-standard approvals, innovative work with new equipment.
Day to day of a cyber graduate differs from team to team. Threat and Vulnerability Management - Digest bulletins to determine if certain published vulnerabilities could potential impact Essential Energy - Create assessments and send it to relevant stakeholders to ensure the affected assets are patched - Research the current threat landscape relating to Essential Energy and the Industry for weekly threat briefing - Monitor channels for exposed credentials and carry out appropriate actions to ensure it doesn't become a threat vector for criminals - Ad-hoc tasks relating to the team Security Operations - Triage alerts relating to unusual user behaviour - Triage alerts reported by employees as potentially malicious - Utilise existing toolset to conduct investigations into whether or not an alert is a threat to Essential Energy
Research tasks,document drafting, brief creation meetings and working with other team members on projects
About the employer
Essential Energy
4.6
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Energy & Utilities
Essential Energy builds, operates and maintains the electricity distribution network in regional, rural and remote NSW and southern QLD.
Pros and cons of working at Essential Energy
Pros
The opportunities my team provides me. They allow me to choose my path and give me endless resources and support.
Supportive work culture with great development opportunities.
Support from managers & team, getting to do rotations and network flexibility with WFH.
The people are very supportive and eager to help out your journey of professional development.
It's a very collaborative environment so you'll be able to meet a lot of people with differing areas of expertise.
Cons
It is a huge company and hard to get visibility of what is happening outside of your division.
The time it takes to get required access.
As everyone is so spread apart, you might not have the chance to meet everybody face to face.
The office space wasn't very inviting. The actual property is outdated and bland.
Cost of living does make it hard to comment on this, more is always better but I believe we're at least competitive with the rest of the market.