Corporate Graduate Program - Strategy & Customer (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

The Strategy and Customer team contribute to future-proofing the company and tackling complex business problems with a human-centred approach. Participate in the optimisation of business processes to increase efficiency and the delivery of programs of work that enhance experiences for their customers and meet the needs of diverse stakeholders.

Join them in building a network of connections that last a lifetime, where your skills and unique perspective contribute to a sustainable and innovative future.

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.
• Health, Safety and Sustainability: Understand the “real world” application of policies, procedures, processes and legislation, governing Health and Safety and our ambitions to meet sustainability goals.

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 other financial benefits available:

• You’ll be supported in a workplace that's both dynamic and welcoming, learning from the best in the business, and where there's a focus on inclusivity, collaboration, community and rewarding the individual and their aspirations. 
• Take ownership of your own graduate program journey, and choose the rotations that interest you.
• You’ll have the opportunity to do real work, to have a real impact.
• The business is a place where your ideas are heard, and they’re committed to developing you to be a creative innovator and collaborative leader.
• With an embedded Inclusion & Diversity Strategy and initiatives like our Women in Power networking group, and Sparkle, their LGBTIQ+ allies pride network, they’re committed to equal opportunities for all employees.  

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:

• Degree qualification in any field
• Graduate from your Bachelor's or Masters 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 us if invited scheduled for 17 April 2024.
• Able to expeditiously build relationships
• Puts the customer at the centre to find solutions

How to apply

Please ensure you include your resume and most recent university transcript. 

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page

• powercor.com.au
• citipower.com.au
• powercor.com.au/careers/our-graduate-programs/