Lineworker/Electrician

Job Description

Hydro Tasmania currently has an opportunity for a Distribution line worker or skilled Electrician to join the Flinders Island team

• Support the full cycle of the network from Construction to Fault Response.
• Work on BEAUTIFUL Flinders and join a community of friendly locals.
• Generous Salary, Allowances and Relocation Support.

The Bass Strait Islands are home to world-leading, renewable technology. On King and Flinders Islands, we proudly generate and distribute electricity to local communities and industry. We need skilled and reliable people to help us deliver a safe and reliable energy network!

We support applications from all members of our community for equitable access to our employment opportunities. We are open to discussing workplace flexibility in all our vacancies, to ensure we can attract the best candidates and accommodate individual needs, differences, disabilities and working arrangements, even in ways we have not thought of. Our merit-based recruitment practices are founded on building diversity by fostering an inclusive, flexible and equitable workplace. For more information about Hydro Tasmania please visit our website www.hydro.com.au/careers

About the role

To put it simply… You will become an integral member of the team on the Island by providing technical support and operational functions, being directly involved in the capital and operational schedule through the maintenance of our local distribution system.

As an Electrician/Line worker, you will undertake construction, maintenance, operations, and fault response through:

• Ensuring work is carried out while maintaining the highest level of safety and environmental awareness as well as contributing to safety and environmental compliance and assurance
• Installing, constructing, and maintaining LV and HV electrical plant and asset.
• Performing operational activities and plant isolations to enable essential maintenance activities to be carried out under safe working conditions, and issuing appropriate permits as required.
• Contributing to development of detailed project plans, including detailing the scope of work, allocation of resources, and material acquisition for maintenance and capital activities.
• Providing supervision and coordination of maintenance tasks and activities, and carrying out, delegating and/or supervising emergency maintenance activities as required.
• Participating in local area seven-day, 24-hour availability roster once trained.

More information can be found on the attached Position Description: PD - AI - Electrician LineWorker - HT3 - July 2025.pdf

Who are you?

With approximately five years of experience as a qualified Line Worker or Electrician, particularly in industrial environments, you bring a solid technical background, and have extensive experience delivering capital works programs, with a strong focus on the safe isolation and operation of low voltage (LV) and high voltage (HV) assets. You’re skilled at working under permitted work structures, ensuring all risks from potential energy sources are effectively identified and eliminated. You hold a current driver’s licence and possess strong computer literacy, with experience in SAP being an added advantage. You thrive in collaborative settings, working confidently alongside tradespeople, contractors, and office-based colleagues to support safe and efficient project delivery.

The Assets

Our off-grid PowerStation is capable of 100% renewable energy export through multiple assets working together. The Bass strait islands are an end-to-end power system where we generate, distribute and complete the retail function for the islands. Our main renewable energy source is from wind, comprising of one 900 kW wind turbine, 175kW solar array. These renewable sources are enabled by multiple assets including a 266kWh battery, Dynamic resistor, and uninterruptable power supplies. Diesel generation ensures our system and customers have a firm supply should renewable not be available. The HV and LV distribution system stretches to the extremities of the island and comprises of around 4000 power poles delivering three phase and single phase to around 850 individual customers.

Living on Flinders Island

You'll be part of the Island's community of friendly locals. You'll have the opportunity to immerse yourself in its remote and natural beauty of a truly picturesque location. Flinders Island is a short trip away from Victoria or Tasmania, located in Bass strait with multiple flights to and from daily. The island offers several outdoor activities such as golf, diving, surfing, camping, sailing, kayaking, fishing, hiking, or visiting remote areas and sightseeing on the back of an ATV or motorbike.

As well as exploring the rugged coastline, beautiful beaches, pristine environment, and remarkable fresh produce, an incredibly safe and welcoming community exist to provide a nurturing environment for kids and families to enjoy life. Forget the traffic and ease your anxiety with a truly relaxing lifestyle change.

This is also an opportunity for you to broaden your skill set as you work with our customers, distribution and generation infrastructure.

As an endorsed employer for women, we have benefits and policies on our Work180 page – check it out here: www.work180.com/en-au/for-women/employer/hydro-tasmania

Let’s get applying!

Attach your resume and a cover letter outlining what skills and experience you can bring to this role. We will be running an agile recruitment process and will engage with suitable candidates as soon we have reviewed their applications.

Recruitment agencies: we respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage.