Job Description
Kaupapa Paetahi 2025 | Vector Graduate Programme 2025
Vector is excited to invite expressions of interest for its Graduate Programme 2025 intake. We have four positions available in different business areas – check out our other job ads and share with your friends. If you’re excited about the role below, apply today!
What’s great about our graduate programme:
- Gain exposure to multiple teams, functions and projects
- Job rotation as per your career plans and availability across Vector
- Access to Vector’s different professional development options
- Salary reviews twice a year and support from the People team
- Regular connection with the graduate cohort across Vector
- Commitment to a diverse and inclusive culture (watch our video on Diversity and Inclusion at Vector)
- Free Barista-style coffee
He kōrero mō mātau | About us
We’re an innovative energy and digital solutions company, running a portfolio of businesses delivering energy, technology and communication services to more than 620,000 homes and commercial customers across New Zealand. We’re leading the way in creating a new energy future through our Symphony strategy, which puts customers at the heart of the energy system.
We’ve formed strategic global alliances to develop digital platforms to assist with the energy transition to electrification.
At its core, our over-arching business strategy is about creating an energy future for our customers that is future-built – delivering safer, cleaner, more reliable and affordable energy solutions. Our focus is on being proactive, through leading and creating, rather than waiting for the future to arrive.
Watch this video to learn more about the new energy future as we see it.
Graduate engineer
Your role will be using engineering, economics and customer focus to support building the future roadmap of our electricity grid, transitioning from traditional management of energy to using digital tools and data.
You will join the team that works on modernising our electricity network with a focus on:
- Delivering our strategic objective (Symphony Strategy) to build an efficient, affordable and reliant network through demand side management, distributed energy resource integration and network visibility (through smart meter data)
- Using advanced digital platforms, developed in collaboration with global partners, to enhance traditional asset management
- Utilising new network planning tools to manage uncertainty and complexity
- Enabling customers’ technology choices for decarbonising their energy consumption by integrating with the electricity network to an affordable transition.
Te hunga e kimihia ana e mātau | Who we are looking for
- Electrical engineering Masters graduates who’ve had exposure to digital engineering, economics, data science, customer insights and/or Gen AI
- You’re an inquisitive energy enthusiast with strong communication skills, and a confident change-maker who doesn’t shy away from challenges
- You’re someone who enjoys solving complex problems, thinking differently and identifying solutions that don’t yet exist
- You’ll have basic knowledge of scenario planning and modelling, and an awareness of power systems
Ngā mea ka taea e mātau mōu | What we can offer you
Whether it’s the opportunity to work on challenges on a truly global scale in collaboration with leading technology firms, or to build a legacy for Auckland and New Zealand through your work; or perhaps to work in an innovative and transformative sector, or our commitment to supporting your development, there’s a myriad of reasons to choose a career with Vector.
Find out more about working with us here.
We also offer:
- A stimulating work environment, full of interesting work being done by smart and innovative people
- Flexibility, including the choice of working from home a couple of days a week, and flexible start and finish times so you can balance work and life
- Health and wellbeing support
- Great benefits that reflect the importance of family
Tono | Apply
Interviews will be held as applications are received, so apply today!
Vector engages a workforce of people and teams with diverse skills, values, backgrounds and experiences. We respect and value people who are different from each other, including gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, race and religion. We are proud of what we have achieved so far:
- First corporate Living Wage Accredited employer
- First Accessibility Tick employer
- Rainbow Tick accredited
- Winner of three gongs at the 2019 Diversity Awards NZ, including the Supreme Award in 2019 and 2020.
If you require assistance or accessibility support from us during the application and selection process, please do get in touch with us at [email protected].
Top Skills
What We Do
We are New Zealand's largest distributor of electricity and gas, owning and operating networks which span the Auckland region. But we don’t stop here - our reach extends to Australia and the Pacific Islands, shaping a new energy future for our customers, through innovative digital and engineering solutions, metering services, solar energy solutions, electric vehicle (EV) networks, high speed internet fibre, air and water purification to name a few.
We haven’t been afraid to challenge the status quo. As leaders of the transformation of the energy sector, we know the ‘same old’ just won’t cut it. We have the confidence to forge new solutions and for our people to work differently, to think differently. We have collaborated with global technology companies and thought leaders who share our view that innovation and digitalisation are key to meeting the future needs of energy systems and fast-evolving customer demands. As governments, businesses and consumers urgently take action to decarbonise, at Vector we are clear on our vision – creating a new energy future.
Because we live in a world that is changing fast, we must continue to identify and develop better options that will provide value, choice and service for our customers throughout New Zealand and beyond, so the environment and communities we love continue to thrive. To do this, Vector has a vision of creating a new energy future, which will help to deliver clean, reliable and affordable energy solutions for customers.
