Essential Energy

Essential Energy - Build a career, connect communities and be part of the future of energy.

Join our organisation and experience a positive culture that fosters camaraderie and personal growth, serving and connecting the regional communities of NSW and southern QLD. 

Enjoy work-life balance, and training opportunities for development in a wider range of careers than you might expect. 

Join an organisation that values your voice, empowers your autonomy, recognises the strength in diversity, and prioritises your well-being while offering attractive remuneration and benefits. 

Take pride in making a meaningful impact on regional, rural and remote communities while being part of a pivotal player in the energy industry's future. 

Empowering people

Our motivated and exceptional people work to operate and maintain one of Australia’s largest electricity distribution networks, delivering safe and reliable power to our customers.

We don’t just acknowledge differences, we actively seek out diverse perspectives across all spectrums, including gender, heritage, and ability. We understand that diversity encourages an innovative and agile workforce. We empower our teams to build an inclusive workplace, ensuring all voices are heard and the potential of every employee is realised. And as a result, we have better ideas and happier employees.

Our Diversity Council and Gender Reference groups help us develop and deliver strategies that foster equal opportunities for women - with a specific focus on improving female representation in non-traditional and leadership roles. We’re also proud of our partnership with the National Association of Women in Operations (NAWO) and the professional development and growth opportunities it provides.

An energy network doesn’t just keep the lights on…it’s a living network that needs to adapt to new and emerging energy generation technologies while still meeting the energy needs of customers. 

It requires innovation, commitment, and collaboration to bring people together to solve the energy delivery challenges of the modern world. 

Your potential will be realised, and you’ll feel a real sense of purpose and satisfaction knowing you have a pivot role to play in delivering the energy of the future to the people who need it today.

We are passionate people, with global thinking and a regional heart that are on a mission to build a better energy future. 

Our Benefits

We offer a great range of employee benefits to support a healthy work/life balance and nurture career growth.

Our benefits sit across Financial benefits, including discounts, Wellbeing / Lifestyle related, Development and Training, as well as Flexible Work Arrangements.

We offer 26 weeks paid parental leave to our team members after 6 months of service. 

Employees on our Enterprise Agreement receive superannuation of 16% and a fortnightly rostered day off (RDO).

These are only some of our benefits - want to see more? Employee benefits (essentialenergy.com.au)

Essential Energy recognises the importance of an inclusive and diverse workforce

Diversity across all spectrums, including gender, heritage and ability, promotes diversity of thought, which in turn encourages an innovative and agile workforce. Read more about our inclusion and diversity streams

Empowering your future

If your passion and skills lie in operations, administration, leadership, technology, or communications, Essential Energy can offer a rewarding career and a great work-life balance.

Watch our employee stories.

Empowering communities

We look after the poles and wires that deliver electricity to 95 percent of New South Wales and parts of southern Queensland. The electricity we deliver powers homes, hospitals, schools, businesses, and services.

Careers

We have a wide variety of positions and careers pathways on offer. From Apprenticeships, Graduate Programs and Traineeships to Corporate and Executive roles.

What we have to offer.

Watch our employee stories.

Dual awards champion workplace equity and flexibility

Essential Energy continues to set the standard for workplace equity, securing two prestigious WORK180 Equitable Workplace Awards for a second year.

Presented with the Large Enterprise Award within Mining, Resources & Energy for its industry-leading approach to workplace equity and inclusion, and the Flexible Working Arrangements Large Enterprise Award for its commitment to creating a workplace that supports balance, productivity, and inclusivity for all employees.

These awards follow last year’s recognition by WORK180 for pay equity, making it the top-ranked organisation in the Mining, Resources & Energy sector for the second consecutive year.

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2025 Awards:

Essential Energy’s Graduate Program ranked top in Energy and Utilities and 22nd overall in Prosple’s Top 100 Graduate Employers list for 2025.

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.