Linespersons or Live Line Linespersons

Love working in the field? Join our team as a Linesperson or Live Line Linesperson and help us power Queensland’s future.

We have opportunities available right across our beautiful state. We just need you!

Your future is Energy Queensland

Every time a light turns on or new energy solutions are created, it’s because of us. At Energy Queensland, we’re making big changes to power up Queensland’s future, and we need people like you to help make it happen.

Energy Queensland and our brands: Energex, Ergon Energy Network, Ergon Retail, and Yurika – are leading the charge in delivering reliable power to over 2 million customers across Queensland and beyond.

As a Linesperson or Live Line Linesperson, you’ll be part of a team that keeps Queensland connected and powers communities every day. With us, you’ll gain the skills and opportunities to build a future you’re proud of.

Your opportunity

As a Linesperson or Live Line Linesperson, you’ll build on your highly practiced electrical skills to ensure the integrity of our LV and HV overhead powerlines and underground infrastructure for our communities.

Here’s how you’ll do it:

• Carry out maintenance (preventative, planned, unplanned), and repairs to our distribution network to ensure its ongoing reliability.
• Construct and augment our distribution network to meet the changing needs of our residential and commercial customers and other stakeholders.
• Install, repair, commission and maintain various items of electrical equipment and plant that make up our vast distribution network.

The remuneration for your new role is from $108,859 per annum + 14.75% superannuation + applicable allowances.

Locations include but not limited to:

Northern Qld: Cairns, Innisfail, Tully, Ingham, Townsville, Home Hill, Magnetic Island, Bowen, Cannonvale (Whitsunday Coast) and Mackay.

Southern Qld: Yeppoon, Rockhampton, Gladstone, Bundaberg, Childers, Hervey Bay, Maryborough, Kingaroy, Toowoomba, Warwick and Stanthorpe.

What’s on offer? 

At Energy Queensland, we believe in supporting every aspect of your career and personal life. Here’s what you can expect:

• Get paid to play: Annual leave loading and salary sacrificing means more spending money in your pocket.
• Personalised professional development: Opportunities to invest in technical and business disciplines, exposing your career to current, emerging, and future technologies and best practice.
• Field role perks:
  • Overtime paid at double time.
  • Allowances for experienced technical and power workers.
  • Allowances for working a continuous away roster including extra leave.
  • Additional remuneration for field leadership roles.
• Relocation: Family friendly package available to successful applicants.

What you’ll bring

• A Queensland Electrical Licensing Board Certification as an Electrical Linesperson.
• Full live line authorisation to 33kV glove & barrier and 66kV or 132kV stick technique (Live Line Linesperson only).
• Demonstrated knowledge of an electricity distribution/transmission system, including construction and maintenance of an electrical network.
• Current ‘C’ Class Driver’s Licence.
• Australian or New Zealand citizenship or an Australian permanent residency.

We’d also love you to have:

• Well-developed interpersonal communication skills to develop good working relationships with team members and external customers. You must have the ability to identify and understand customer needs.
• Availability for call out and emergency work.
• Willingness to travel to surrounding area from time to time to undertake work.

What matters most? For us, it’s our values:

We’re Safe – We Belong – We Grow – We Deliver.

If you’re going to be a part of our team, these should matter to you, too.

Why Energy Queensland?

At Energy Queensland, your career will always be moving forward. You’ll get hands-on experience that sets you up for the future, working with people who are ready to share their skills and help you grow.

Here, what you do really matters. Your work will make a difference to millions of lives across Queensland, and you’ll feel proud to be part of something bigger.

The future of energy is here. It just needs you.

If you’re ready to be part of shaping Queensland’s energy future, apply now with your resume!

Applications close at 5.00pm (AEST), Sunday 15 December 2024.

We will be reviewing applications as they are received and arranging interviews for suitable candidates as soon as possible.

Need more info?

Contact:

• Kylie George, Recruitment Advisor, at kylie.george@ergon.com.au.
• Dani Nuttall, Recruitment Advisor, at dani.nuttall@energyq.com.au.

You will be required to complete a pre-employment medical as part of the selection process.

We value the differences individuals contribute to our workforce and encourage a diverse range of applicants to apply. Click here to view more information on diversity and inclusion at Energy Queensland.

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