Electrician/Line Worker

Job Description

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

• Support the full cycle of the network from Construction to Fault Response.
• Work on BEAUTIFUL King Island 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.

Haven’t convinced you yet?

The Assets

Our off-grid Power system 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 renewable energy sources are from wind and solar comprising 5 wind turbines and over 2MW of onsite solar. These renewable sources are enabled by multiple assets including batteries, Dynamic resistor, and uninterruptable power supplies.

Diesel generation ensures our system and customers have a firm supply should renewables not be available. The HV and LV distribution system stretches to the extremities of the island and comprises of just over 5000 power poles delivering power to around 1300 individual customers.

Living on King Island

You'll be part of King Island’s warm and welcoming community, where locals look out for each other and life moves at a more relaxed pace. Located in Bass Strait between Victoria and Tasmania, King Island is easily accessible with multiple daily flights, yet it feels like a world away from the hustle and stress of city life.

The island is known for its stunning natural beauty, from rugged coastlines and windswept beaches to lush inland landscapes. Enjoy world-class golf, diving, surfing, fishing, hiking, or explore the island by ATV or motorbike. It’s an outdoor lover’s paradise.

King Island also boasts some of Australia’s best fresh produce, think premium beef, Southern Ocean crayfish, and award-winning cheeses, all served up in a setting that’s peaceful, safe, and ideal for families.

With no traffic, a supportive community, and a nurturing environment for kids, King Island offers more than just a beautiful place to live, it offers a lifestyle rooted in nature, connection, and simplicity.

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.