Corporate Graduate Program - Regulation (Feb 2025)

About Beon, CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy

Beon, CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy is an Australian electricity distribution company that operates throughout western Victoria and the western suburbs of Melbourne. The company owns and maintains power lines, substations, and street lights and manages Victoria's largest electricity distribution network.

Your role

At the Regulation team, you will have an impact on the Clean energy future by preparing business cases to substantiate the investment required to enable greater electrification, higher utilisation of renewables and better storage options on the network whilst operating safely, reliably and efficiently for our customers.

Understand the economic regulatory framework and the principles involved in setting network tariffs and monitoring their effectiveness on customer behaviour. Ensuring the business remains compliant with relevant regulatory requirements.

You’ll have the opportunity to gain experience in a variety of areas including:

• Business strategy: Contribute to initiatives that improve business and customer outcomes
• Digital innovation: Gain exposure to value assessments, technology analysis and experimentation
• Customer experience and operations: Develop an understanding of the customer strategy customers’ experiences and interactions with them, and their customer experience improvement approach
• Regulatory resets: Develop an understanding of the development and rigour required to prepare expenditure business cases to support a regulatory reset proposal
• Pricing and revenue analysis: Understand the principles involved in setting network tariffs and monitoring their effectiveness on customer behaviour
• Compliance and reporting: Learn the economic regulatory framework in which the businesses operate and reporting obligations to maintain their licences.

Training & development

The graduate program will connect you to industry leaders and expose you to innovative projects and transformative industry change. You will undertake rotations within your core discipline, along with developing wider business knowledge, to give you maximum exposure and a truly immersive experience. Examples of these rotations may include Corporate Affairs and Stakeholder Engagement, Field Operations, Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability and Human Resources.

Watch this video to learn more about Beon, CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy's extensive program of education and development opportunities.

Benefits

Beon, CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy offer a wide range of benefits available:

• Health and wellbeing subsidy. Covers the cost of a wide range of health, fitness and mental health activities and subscriptions, up to $600 per year
• Corporate health insurance plan. A 7% discount on BUPA health insurance cover
• Education assistance program. Support to pursue further education programs
• Leave benefits include standard annual leave, long service leave, sick leave and carers leave – as well as purchased leave, paid parental leave of up to 15 weeks for the primary carer, adoption leave and domestic violence leave.
• Workplace giving – donate regularly to a registered charity through an easy payroll deduction.
• Volunteering – take part in group activities with registered charities or utilise one day off a year as Community Day leave.
• Social clubs – discounted benefits for socialising with your colleagues.
• Myki Commuter Club – 10% saving on an annual Myki pass paid in fortnightly instalments.
• Annual health checks and vaccination programs – provided by our specialist partners and made available through our offices and depots.
• Personal technology devices – include iPhones, iPads and laptops with remote access capability, enabling flexible working conditions and maximum efficiency.

Career progression

At the end of the program, you’ll join a team in a permanent role that best matches your skills and interests, with business and opportunities. 

Work life balance

The health, safety, and well-being of Beon, CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy's people and their communities are at the core of their values – and remain their number one priority. Whether you’re working in their office, remotely, or from home, they’ll support you to be the best you can be. Works Program Delivery Manager, Dale Anderson knows all about this – he leads the team that schedules field operations and relocated from Melbourne to Lorne during the COVID pandemic. 

To learn more about workplace flexibility at Beon, CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy, watch this video:

Culture & vibe

With an embedded Inclusion and diversity Strategy and initiatives like their Women in a Power networking group and Sparkle, their LGBTIQ+ allies pride network, Beon, CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy are committed to equal opportunities for all employees. They encourage applications from all communities, people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, and cultures, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBTQI+ community, and people living with a disability.

About you

To be eligible, you’ll need to:

• Qualification in economics, finance, commerce
• Graduate from your Bachelor's or Masters's degree by the end of the 2024 academic year
• Be prepared to commence full-time employment in February 2025 in Melbourne
• Have the right to work in Australia (please note for international applicants, you will need to secure/have secured a subclass 485 or 189 working visa)
• Have a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or greater
• Be available to take part in an assessment day with them if invited scheduled for 17th April 2024
• Persuasive and effective communicator 
• Understanding of microeconomics and basic quantitative analysis
• An interest in energy markets and public policy

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page

• powercor.com.au
• citipower.com.au
• powercor.com.au/careers/our-graduate-programs/
• powercor.com.au/careers/compensation-and-benefits/#:~:text=Income%20protection%20to%20support%20you,leave%20and%20domestic%20violence%20leave.