• Permanent Full-time Role | $172,014 + 15.5% Super

• Can be based at one of Ausgrid’s Sydney, Newcastle or Central Coast offices| Hybrid Workplace

• Monthly Day Off in support of work life balance

Just imagine a future where households and businesses can generate their own energy and sell it back to the grid, ultimately connecting communities and empowering lives. Are you ready to play your part in an evolving industry?​

Ausgrid is on an exciting transformation journey and now is the time to be a part of something big. We are proud to service Australia’s east coast, as a leading business in energy distribution, delivering a safe and reliable electricity supply to more than 1.8 million homes – that’s over four million Australians relying on us every day.

Our vision is simple; for our communities to have the power for a resilient, affordable net zero future. ​

We take pride in knowing that the work we collectively achieve today, will transform the world tomorrow. We value a culture of working and living safely, being customer focussed, commercially minded, collaborative, honest, accountable, and respectful. Our values are not just initiatives driven by leaders; they define the way we work.

Meet our team!

Is a collaborative culture important to you? At Ausgrid, collaboration in a safe and respectful environment is embedded in our core values, allowing our employees to progress and develop their career.

Our Works Planning & Contract Delivery group is focused on delivering a safe and reliable electricity network and play a key role in building and maintaining Ausgrid’s network.

You will lead a team to manage contracts to support Ausgrid's field and planning teams in the safe and efficient delivery of Ausgrid's programs of work. Join our Works Planning & Contract Delivery team that will work with our field teams across the entire Ausgrid network area.

Your new role

Reporting to the Performance, Assurance and Contract Support Manager as the Senior Project Officer you will provide hands on management to a small team and have the contract management and supplier relationship responsibility for services that are utilised across Ausgrid field delivery teams.

Responsibilities including but not limited to:

• Safe, efficient delivery of allocated work programs in line with achieving Business and Customer outcomes.
• Establish and maintain functional business relationships with external customers and other stakeholders and take action in line with business requirements.
• Effectively manage programs and contracts ensuring compliance to target/plan in regard to all metrics.

Spark our interest!

Our hiring decisions are not only based on your experience and skills, but we also take into consideration your passion, attitude, and alignment to our core values.

Energise us through your skills and qualifications in:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent) or an Advanced Diploma in Electrical Engineering.
• Class C Drivers Licence.
• Extensive technical knowledge and experience of Industry requirements, relevant Australian and International Standards, Safe Work Practices, Regulations and Acts relevant to customer electrical installations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and advanced stakeholder management experience.

Key software skills (desirable):

• Experience/proficient in the use of SAP.
• Experience/proficient in Microsoft Suite of tools including PowerBI.

Grow with Ausgrid

To continue building on our rich heritage, we actively invest in our people’s development through secondments, onsite training, mentoring circles, e-learning, Australian Graduate School of Management programs (UNSW) and study assistance.

It is through our investment in our people that the average tenure across the business is 14 years and our current turnover is sitting at a market competitive rate of just 3.9%.

Ausgrid Perks

Revel in more than just a competitive salary! Our employees enjoy a dynamic range of market leading support and safety services, wellbeing programs, corporate discounts, and flexibility arrangements in many forms.

Our people are paramount to the continued success of Ausgrid, therefore celebrating great work is important to us! It’s not just the big wins that count, we have provided our employees the opportunity to applaud peer successes daily through our Amped Recognition Program. But let’s not forget the major milestones! For those ready to exceed expectations, anticipate a nomination for a CEO award at our formal end of year Award gala.

Belonging at Ausgrid

To deliver the best possible service to our customers we strive towards a workforce that reflects the diverse community that we serve. Ausgrid is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and we encourage applications from women, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities, people from the LGBTQIA+ community and First Nations people.

If you require support with your application/reasonable adjustments for the interview process, we want to hear from you.