Transgrid
Graduate Program - Finance (Jan 2026)
Sydney
Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 94000 / Year
- (incl. super) + Fortnightly RDO
- 1 vacancy
- Apply by 31 Mar 2025
- Start date 17 Jan 2026
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 Engineering, Construction and Project Management.
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 Transgrid Graduate, you will assist in undertaking modelling, analysis, development, design and provision of recommendations for high voltage transmission system developments to ensure Transgrid’s strategies and objectives are met. This includes authoring or reviewing robust technical reports, and designs, developing projects and network models, documenting sound forecasts and streamlining efficient project delivery and planning processes.
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 vary, depending on your background and career aspirations 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 from February 2025.
As a Transgrid graduate, you will:
- Learn from leading experts
- Develop professional skills that will help get your career off to a flying start
- Undertake four 6-month rotations in key areas within the business
- Be supported by mentors, buddies and managers
- Access internal and external development opportunities to enhance professional knowledge and skills
- Join our specialised Network, Major Projects and/or Delivery business unit, in which you’ll be embedded in one department. With this, you will build a deep understanding, kick-starting your career in your chosen field.
- Engage in asset analytics, operations analysis, network operations, and customer planning
- Engage in defining project scopes, and conceptual designs and developing feasible projects to meet network and customer needs
- Receive on-the-job training and supportive transition into the new 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 (Civil, Mechanical, Renewable, Mechatronic or Electrical), Construction or Project Management
- Able to manage 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 2025
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.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Business & Management
- Associate Degree or higher
Reviews
Day to day is task driven so no one day is the same.
As I am currently in a training role, my responsibilities are small. However, I am adequately supported and am exposed to enough to help me learn and grow, without overwhelming me.
Manage project deliverables for the protection and control teams, attend progress meetings with stakeholders.
About the employer
Transgrid
4.3
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Energy & Utilities
Transgrid builds and maintains the most important electricity network in Australia, while supporting the transition to a clean energy future.
Pros and cons of working at Transgrid
Pros
Development and career opportunities Healthy and motivating work culture.
The forefront of the transition to net zero. Application of engineering knowledge.
They fully embrace diversity and are working towards continually improving the broader workplace culture. There are neurodivergent individuals within the business who receive appropriate accommodations and can be their best selves at the workplace because of this. Hybrid working is also a significant positive.
This company shows a commitment to the development of its students. This can be seen through the 4 rotations that make up the graduate program, where we are encouraged to experience all the corners of the business (e.g., my previous rotation before Civil Design was Construction), and in every team I have been finding only the most helpful people around me. Also, there is a huge portion of the company who have been here for 10-15+ years, which says a lot about the company and adds to the company culture as well.
Respect, training, compensation, work-life balance.
Cons
In my opinion, TransGrid doesn't have the worst thing: workloads may get intense, and positions wanted during the grad program may be taken by other grads.
I still need time to take sufficient responsibility during the program.
Undergoing lots of change can cause uncertainty and a lack of clarity.
I have encountered some individuals with difficult personalities; however, these individuals have all since left the company.
The worst thing would probably be that it is bound to NSW, but that's not a fault of the company as much as it is the nature of it. One other thing might be that due to the long working lifetimes of some staff at the same company, at times you find someone who believes themselves to be a master of their field and is then unwilling to learn, although the world and the industry are changing so rapidly. This happens so seldom, though I am nitpicking here.