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Powerlink Queensland has a talented workforce of more than 1000 people who are employed in professional, technical, trade and administrative positions.
We’re proud to offer exciting career opportunities with attractive remuneration, superannuation and excellent employment conditions, and are always on the lookout for new people to join our growing organisation.
Workplace environment
Powerlink is based at Virginia, about 10km north of the Brisbane CBD. Our modern, open plan workspace contains an award winning atrium which includes a rainforest garden and fish ponds - perfect for relaxed staff meetings.
As an employee, if you are in a role based at Virginia, you also have access to:
- A subsidised cafeteria that offers a wide range of food at affordable prices.
- An active recreation club which organises a variety of activities through the year. (A small fee applies.)
- A fully equipped fitness club. (A small fee applies.)
- Free on-site under cover and street parking.
- Secure bicycle storage, change rooms and showers.
- Easy access to trains and buses.
Financial incentives
We offer two types of incentive rewards for permanent employees:
- Performance pay is based on your individual job performance against your Performance Agreement (a yearly agreement developed by you and your team leader) together with Powerlink’s profit and organisational performance.
- Gainsharing is an incentive payment system based on the financial and organisational performance of the whole company. It’s offered to Enterprise Agreement-based employees.
Both of the incentive payments above can be salary sacrificed into superannuation or paid as cash (or a combination of the two).
Both types of payments reward employees whose efforts and performance contribute to the overall success of the company.
Employee awards
Each year we hold our Powerlink Excellence Awards which acknowledges outstanding work results for both teams and individuals.
We also regularly enter industry competitions such as the Engineering Excellence Awards and the Annual Report Awards, and key staff are often invited to present at national and international conferences.
Other benefits
There are a number of other great benefits of working at Powerlink including:
- Generous training and development opportunities, including established career development programs.
- Discounted electricity bills through salary sacrificing.
- Ability to join the Electricity Credit Union, which offers financial and banking services.
- Discounted MBF private health insurance through our corporate membership.
- Subsidised corporate wardrobe plus free safety clothing to eligible employees.
- Free, confidential and professional counselling through our Employee Assistance Service.
- Flexible work arrangements including the option of nine-day fortnights, job sharing, family and purchased leave to eligible employees. You can also negotiate with your team leader to set your working hours between 6:00 am and 6:30 pm.