Power and people you can rely on, now and in the future.
At Essential Energy we build, operate and maintain one of Australia’s largest electricity distribution networks, providing a vital service to over 900,000 customers across regional, rural and remote communities.
Our team of highly motivated, skilled, and exceptional people work across a broad range of professions and careers, in the field and in office-based functions, helping us to deliver safe and reliable power for our communities across 95 per cent of New South Wales and parts of southern Queensland.
Benefits
Explore the benefits Essential Energy has to offer and discover if they are the right fit for you.
We offer a great range of employee benefits to support a healthy work/life balance and nurture career growth. These include financial benefits and discounts, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, development and training, as well as flexible work arrangements.
Learn more about Essential Energy’s employee benefits.
Culture
With a talented and skilled workforce of 3,650 employees, our people enjoy a work-life balance and access award-winning training in a wider range of careers than you might expect.
We value our employees’ voice, empower autonomy, recognise the strength in diversity, and prioritise employee well-being while offering attractive remuneration and benefits. These include salary packaging and financial benefits, health initiatives and support programs, personal and professional development.
About Us
Essential Energy builds, operates and maintains one of Australia’s largest electricity distribution networks, providing a vital service to over 900,000 customers across regional, rural and remote communities.
Our network footprint covers 95 per cent of New South Wales and parts of southern Queensland, traversing 737,000 square kilometres of diverse landscape from the desert to the coast, across alpine to sub-tropical.
Delivering safe and reliable power for our communities is at the core of what we do.
The poles and wires that line our streets deliver the energy that powers the homes, hospitals, schools and businesses that form our communities. But they can also allow for communities to generate, share and store their own electricity.
Through innovation and technology, we are actively supporting the energy transition by inspiring and enabling the network of the future.
Underpinning this is our commitment to the safety of our employees, contractors and the community. We strive to continuously improve our safety performance and we work with the people we serve to promote electrical safety awareness.
We're dedicated to giving back to the communities where we live and work.
Essential Energy, power and people you can rely on, now and in the future.
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Awards
Essential Energy continues to set the standard for workplace equity, securing two prestigious WORK180 Equitable Workplace Awards for a second year.
We’re proud of our achievements as an industry-leading inclusive employer with partnerships with WORK180, Menopause Friendly Australia, Family friendly Workplaces, Empowered Women in Trades and many other elite and recognised people-focussed programs and enterprises.
Essential Energy has been recognised as one of Australia’s top graduate employers, with our Graduate Program receiving national recognition in the Prosple Top 100 Graduate Employers list for 2025.
Essential Energy was named number one Energy and Utilities graduate employer while also ranking 22nd in the overall list of the top 100 graduate employers in Australia.
