Transgrid
Graduate Program – Civil Engineering (Based in Sydney) (Jan 2026)
Sydney
Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 94000 / Year
- (including 15.5% super)+Fortnightly RDO
- 1-10 vacancies
- Apply by 3 Apr 2025
- Start date 17 Jan 2026
Join Transgrid’s 2026 Graduate Program – Applications Now Open for a Position Based in Sydney!
Are you ready to launch your career with Australia’s leading transmission network service provider? Transgrid is excited to offer you the opportunity to be part of our 2026 Graduate Program – a dynamic, immersive experience designed to give you hands-on exposure and accelerate your career in the energy sector while contributing to a clean energy future.
Why Transgrid?
- Competitive Salary: Starting package of $94,888.79 (including 15.5% superannuation).
- Two-Year Graduate Program with four, 6-month placements across diverse business areas aligned to your degree.
- Cutting-Edge Innovation: Work with the latest technologies in the energy sector, shaping Australia’s clean energy future.
- Extensive Exposure: Gain exposure to a wide variety of roles and functions across the business.
- Structured Growth: Receive tailored training and development opportunities, including mentorship from experienced professionals and access to professional and technical development programs.
- Explore Different Careers: Rotate through different departments to explore different career paths.
- Real-World Impact: Contribute to groundbreaking projects that make a difference in energy infrastructure, sustainability, and innovation.
- Inclusive Culture: Thrive in an environment that supports diversity with Employee Support Networks like Energise (for gender equality), Rise (for LGBTQIA+ employees), and Yarn Up (for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees).
- Work-Life Balance: Enjoy hybrid and flexible work arrangements and a 9-day fortnight to help you balance your career and personal life.
Who Are We Looking For?
We’re seeking passionate and driven graduates from diverse disciplines who are ready to contribute, learn, and grow. Whether you’re fascinated by engineering, business, or IT, we’ve got a place for you! We are recruiting:
Engineering and Construction Disciplines:
- Civil: As Engineering graduates you will have access to over 60 unique placements, offering an exceptional opportunity to broaden your skills and expertise across diverse Business Units. These placements include design, analysis, and network planning, as well as development, project controls, commercial operations, and construction. This well-rounded comprehensive experience will prepare you for a successful long-term career at Transgrid, with potential roles after the program including Electrical Engineer, Project Engineer, Construction Engineer, Designer, Project Developer, Site Manager, and Project Controller.
Eligibility Criteria:
- Degree: Hold or be in your final year of your degree in your relevant discipline:
- Civil Engineering
- Australian or New Zealand Citizen/ Permanent Resident or eligible permanent visa holder
- Graduate or Expected Graduate by end of 2025
- Available for Assessment Centre in-person in Ultimo between 6th and 9th May 2025.
- Demonstrate key qualities: Strong team player, clear communicator, lateral thinker, and passionate about environmental and social responsibility
The Recruitment Process:
- Eligibility: Check your eligibility and ensure you meet the required degree qualification.
- Submit application: Create a profile on our careers portal and submit your application.
- Screening: Our recruitment team will assess your application and inform you if you are unsuccessful.
- Online Testing: If you pass screening, you will receive an email with instructions for our 12-minutes online test covering numeracy, literacy and abstract reasoning.
- Online Video Interview: Candidates who meet the cognitive testing benchmark will be invited to complete a one-way video interview.
- Shortlisting: The recruitment team will evaluate your video interview and notify you if you are unsuccessful.
- Assessment Centre: Successful candidates will be invited to our in-person Assessment Centre, schedule in Ultimo, 6th - 9th May 2025.
- Pre-Employment Checks: Candidates selected at the Assessment Centre will be invited to undergo pre-employment checks.
- Offer of Employment: Successful candidates will receive a verbal offer of employment followed by a formal written off sent by email.
Key Dates:
- Applications Close: April 3rd 2025
- Cognitive Testing Finalised: April 10th 2025
- One-Way Video Interview Finalised: April 19th 2025
- Assessment Centre: May 6th – 9th 2025
- Pre-Employment Checks Finalised: Mid-June 2025
- Offer of Employment: July 2025
- Program start date: January 2026
Apply Today to Make a Real Impact!
This is your chance to shape Australia’s energy future with one of Australia’s most innovative companies. Are you ready to make a difference? Submit your application now to be part of our exciting journey!
For all queries related to this role, please email kailee.standen@transgrid.com.au. No applications or resumes will be accepted by email.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Engineering & Mathematics
- Bachelor 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.