Metering Technician

Powering your life: Market-leading salaries | Yearly EBA increases
- More time for you: Healthy work-life balance | 9 or 10-day fortnight roster
- Feel safe and supported: Safety first culture | 24/7 Employee Assistance Program

**Yurika** is hiring We have **12-month Fixed Term** opportunities for **Metering Technicians** to join our Meter Delivery team to be located at **Perth, Western Australia**.

**Your future is Energy Queensland**

Joining our team means stepping into the forefront of innovation, contributing to the development and implementation of cutting-edge renewable energy solutions that make a tangible difference, shifting Australia towards a more sustainable energy future. ?

Energy Queensland and our brands: Energex, Ergon Energy Network, Ergon Retail, and Yurika - are leading the charge in delivering reliable power to over 2 million customers across Queensland whilst Yurika also embarks on some of the most significant energy and renewable projects across the country.

As a Metering Technician, you'll be part of a team that powers communities every day. With us, you'll gain the skills and opportunities to build a future you're proud of.

**Your opportunity**

As a Metering Technician, you'll build on your highly practiced electrical skills to ensure the safe and efficient provision of metering asset field services for our communities across Western Australia.

Here's how you'll do it:

- Complete new residential meter installations as well as 3G modem change-outs for existing digital meters.
- You'll support the installation and maintenance of all types of metering services for Yurika in Western Australia and provide support in the high voltage testing of instrument transformers.
- You'll assist with complex testing practices and procedures on behalf of Yurika's metering customers and other clients.

The remuneration for your new role is:

- **Metering Technician 1**: from **$108,859** pa (**9-day fortnight only**) plus **14.75%** superannuation.
- ** Metering Technician 2**: from **$128,919** pa (**9-day fortnight**) or from **$148,901** pa (**10-day fortnight**) plus **14.75%**superannuation.
- ** Metering Technician 3**: from **$141,453** pa (**9-day fortnight**) or from **$159,842** pa (**10-day fortnight**) plus **14.75%** superannuation.

**What's on offer?**

At Energy Queensland, we believe in supporting every aspect of your career and personal life. Here's what you can expect:

- **Get paid to play**: Annual leave loading and salary sacrificing means more spending money in your pocket.
- ** Personalised professional development**: Opportunities to invest in technical and business disciplines, exposing your career to current, emerging, and future technologies and best practice.
- ** Field role perks**:

- Overtime paid at double time.
- Allowances for experienced technical and power workers.
- Additional remuneration for field leadership roles.

**What you'll bring**
- Current Electrical Workers License, trade qualified within Western Australia or an ability to obtain mutual recognition.
- Demonstrated knowledge of electrical metering and/or installation practices, regulations, and procedures.
- Demonstrated knowledge of safety requirements and the operation and maintenance of metering installations as well as the ability to install, test and fault find complex metering systems including telecommunications equipment.
- Current 'C' class open Drivers Licence.

We'd also love you to have:

- Well-developed interpersonal communication skills to develop good working relationships with team members and external customers.
- Strong time-management skills and an ability to plan, prioritise and co-ordinate resources to deliver positive outcomes within the agreed timeframes.
- Excellent customer service skills with ability to solve issues and adapt/learn new skills.
- Experience working in HV enclosures including maintenance and testing of instrument transformers (highly desirable).

What matters most? For us, it's our values:
**We're Safe - We Belong - We Grow - We Deliver.**

If you're going to be a part of our team, these should matter to you too.

**Why Energy Queensland and Yurika Division?**

At Energy Queensland, your career will always be moving forward. You'll get hands-on experience that sets you up for the future, working with people who are ready to share their skills and help you grow.

With Yurika, what you do really matters. We're a leading force in Australia's energy transition.

We're not just shaping the future of energy; we're creating tomorrow, today.

**The future of energy is here. It just needs you.**

**Applications will close at 5.00pm, 09 February 2025.**

You will be required to complete a pre-employment medical as part of the selection process.

**_We value the differences individuals contribute to our workforce and encourage a diverse range of applicants to apply._