Graduate Engineering Programme February 2025

3 weeks ago


Wellington City, New Zealand Transpower Full time

Bring your focus and passion for planning and putting all the pieces together
- Study power flows to enable critical maintenance on the National Grid
- Rotational programme with great opportunities to learn
- Bring your outstanding communication skills. Work with caring and collaborative professionals at the heart of New Zealand's power system._

Transpower owns and operates New Zealand's National Grid - the unique High Voltage transmission network crossing mountain passes, forests, farmland, and open sea, bringing electricity from where it is generated to where it is needed most.

At the heart of the electricity sector, our Operations Planning team enables both maintenance and project work to occur on the national grid, safely and efficiently, through coordination, across Transpower, with Generators and our Service Providers. The team also delivers engineering assessments to ensure potential security impacts are mitigated and power system security is maintained while the required work takes place.

**Our Graduate Programme**

Commencing February 2025 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington, we invite you to be part of a cohort of 30 Engineering Graduates with various majors. You'll gain a range of skills and put theory and first principles into practice while doing important work with a variety of different teams over your two-year rotational placement programme. Find out more at About our Graduate Programme | Transpower

Our Graduates tell us they enjoy:

- Work that has real meaning, and impact
- Our inclusive and caring culture and experienced expert colleagues who freely share their knowledge
- Being part of a community and forming lasting bonds they will take with them throughout their careers
- The level of involvement they have in shaping their careers, which really can be 'Powered by You'

You'll receive mentoring from experts to build your knowledge and experience real work from day one. As an Operations Planning Graduate Programme participant, you'll rotate through placements like System Security, Network Modelling and Commissioning, Grid Compliance, and Outage Planning. This may require travel and a placement/s outside of Wellington. You may be part of:

- The crew completing the annual HVDC outage
- Planning system outages with internal and external teams
- Identifying and planning approaches to support system security and system operations - short, medium, and long-term
- Helping to plan and size the Transmission Grid of the future

Building relationships across the business, you'll gain both deep technical understanding and strengthen your soft skills, along with a good awareness of internal and external customer needs. Ultimately, we will help you explore where and how you wish to shape your career with us.

**What will you bring?**

You'll be studying at a New Zealand University and by the time you start with us in February 2025 you will have completed a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) ideally with electrical, mechanical, or engineering science, ideally with power systems papers.

You'll be achieving/have achieved a minimum B+/5 grade point average in your studies and demonstrate curiosity, outstanding written and verbal communication, and active listening.

Good analytical and problem-solving skills will support your love of detail-orientated work/study, but conversely, you'll be interested in the big picture, and future of energy, making a difference to Aotearoa, and having a positive impact on the communities we serve.

**While not essential, the following skills are a plus, so please tell us if you have**:

- Basic knowledge/experience of the New Zealand electricity industry
- Experience with Power BI or other analytical tools
- The ability to solve complex puzzles through first principal reasoning
- Advanced python skills

**Join Us at Transpower**

Aotearoa is powered by the people who work here. Every home, every marae, every electric vehicle, every hospital relies on the electricity we manage and deliver. This is your opportunity to join us on a mission that affects all New Zealanders, the planet, and the economy.

If your degree is in engineering, Transpower as an Engineering New Zealand Professional Development Partner and we will support you in moving from Emerging Professional to full Member status, and in the longer-term, to CPEng.

**Next steps**

**Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and initial conversations/interviews will be scheduled as appropriate. **Role closes **Sunday 17th November** unless filled prior.
- Reasonable options are available to enable exploratory conversations and/or interview scheduling to suit your individual circumstances. You must be studying/have studied at a New Zealand University and hold full eligibility to work._

**Job Details**:

- Position Description
Operations Planning Graduate 2025 PD.pdf- Reference #
29942- Posted on
30 Oct 2024- Closes on
17 Nov 2024 23:55- Location(s)
Wellington- Expertise
Electrical, Mechanical, Engi



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