At Powerlink, every possibility starts with you

We believe life’s about possibilities. And so is the future. That’s why we need you.

We’re working at the heart of Queensland’s energy transformation. Now more than ever, we need people who want to help us deliver a world-class energy future and ensure we continue to navigate through this once in a generation energy challenge. Join us and make it happen.

Life at Powerlink

As the Senior Recruitment Advisor, you'll help us connect a more sustainable energy future for more than five million Queenslanders and 253,000 businesses. Your work with us is about every light turned on, every community connected, and every future made possible.

• Hybrid, family-friendly and flexible working arrangements including substitution of public holidays
• 12.75% superannuation and salary packaging of novated lease vehicles
• Additional leave purchasing
• Powerlink offers robust leadership development through integrated programs, fostering growth across all levels.

Find a career that matters and lasts

In this role, you'll proactively support the business and hiring leaders with end-to-end recruitment, applying your senior experience in attraction and sourcing to secure technical and non-technical talent. Working closely with the business, you'll collaborate to identify key attractors and channels, developing strategic sourcing methods to secure suitable talent whilst building pipelines for future needs.

You'll role-model service excellence and teamwork, prioritising your workload and ensuring tailored, consistent and efficient recruitment service is provided to hiring leaders throughout the organisation through strong communication and reporting skills. Always on the look-out for continuous improvements, you’ll support both your wider-team and leaders in working through resourcing challenges, managing escalations and complex problems as they arise.

Along with the wider Talent and Branding team, you’ll work with colleagues to support with employer branding, remuneration advice, approaches to diversity & inclusion, national and international recruitment as well as other tools designed to enable your success.

The community you will join

Working within our People & Culture Division, you will join the Talent & Branding team, reporting to the Recruitment Lead. This team thrives on a culture of high performance, where each member’s dedication to excellence is complemented by a strong emphasis on collaboration, ultimately fostering a dynamic and achieved-oriented environment.

Your expertise

With an extensive background in end-to-end recruitment and resourcing - ideally within the Energy, Utilities or EPCM sectors – you’ll demonstrate strong sourcing skills for both technical and non-technical roles through contemporary attraction and selection practices and through a range of resources and channels.

Demonstrating strong interpersonal skills, you’ll bring a confident, partnership-style approach to working collaboratively with your leaders; building strong relationships whilst applying expertise in managing expectations and negotiating outcomes through both verbal and written communication. Drawing on your skills and knowledge, you’ll exhibit previous experience building leader capability through training and development in best-practice recruitment for their teams.

A seasoned recruiter, you’ll be experienced in providing sound advice and guidance, and prioritising workloads to ensure the wider team are collectively delivering on your commitments. You’ll display examples of identifying and implementing team improvements, and coaching junior team members on best-practice approaches to enable shared team success.

Be the start of every possibility

To kick start your career at Powerlink, apply by clicking the button above, attaching your resume and cover letter on our careers page before midnight on Sunday 30 June 2024. Kindly be aware that the Recruitment team will commence the review process during this period.

There’s lots to love about a career with Powerlink. But our people say there’s three things that really stand out: 

• A career that matters and lasts: You’ll shape a progressive career connecting more than five million Queenslanders to a world-class, clean energy future.
• Unique work and the chance to grow: You’ll help find smart solutions to interesting problems as you develop your skills and impact every day.
• People who love to support and share: You’ll build relationships with experienced, down-to-earth people who you’ll be proud to work with.

For all enquiries, contact our recruitment team at recruitment@powerlink.com.au.

Our commitment to inclusion and belonging

At Powerlink, we champion inclusion and belonging by supporting every candidate during the recruitment journey. Please inform us of any needs or adjustments for a more inclusive process, including sharing your preferred pronouns.  As a Veteran-Friendly Employer, we value the skills Veterans bring and ensure equal opportunities. Let us know if you're a Veteran for tailored support.

Successful applicants will undergo necessary pre-employment checks. As advocates of the Circle Back initiative, we pledge to respond to all applications promptly.