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About Yarra Valley Water Australia

Yarra Valley Water Australia provides essential water supply and sanitation services to over 2 million people who live and work in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne. They're a community-focused, purpose-driven water organization full of passionate, dedicated, and imaginative people. Victorian Government owned and committed to improving their state through essential water and sanitation services, whilst protecting and sustaining the environment.  They’re proud of their heritage and excited about the future. The world is changing so they are changing too. Their people and their jobs are as diverse as the communities they serve. They work in a unique way to deliver affordable, high-quality service whilst driving water conservation to accommodate their growing population.

Your role

You’ll have the chance to work on all parts of the lifecycle of Yarra Valley Water Australia's assets – from design to construction to operation. You will play an integral part in harnessing big data and developing intelligent water and sewerage infrastructure that will last over a century. You’ll be excited by the challenge of solving problems and working on and delivering a variety of projects. Read more.

Training & development

Yarra Valley Water Australia recognizes the importance of providing engineers with the opportunity to broaden their skills and experience through regular rotations. Developing a broad range of skills and experience across the business improves cross-functional awareness. Development and training needs are regularly reviewed, with additional training offered to develop leadership and management skills, as well as add to your technical understanding. Read more.

Benefits

Yarra Valley Water Australia's Vacation Students will work up to full-time hours and will be paid $29.99 per hour (inclusive of 25% casual loading), plus 11% superannuation.

Why choose Yarra Valley Water Australia?

• Professional development:
• Lifestyle
• Work-life balance
• Salary packaging
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Career progression

At Yarra Valley Water Australia, they're creating a vibrant workplace that achieves exceptional business outcomes, successful partnerships, and personal satisfaction. They’re committed to inspiring and encouraging each other to be innovative and excel.

They offer the following to help their employees' professional development:

• Yarra Professionals peer network and events
• Study assistance (financial and study leave)
• Secondments (internal/external)
• Corporate volunteering
• Formal training workshops

Work life balance

Work-life balance at Yarra Valley Water Australia:

• Long service leave accessible after seven years
• 14 weeks of paid parental leave (for birth or adoption) and 14 days of secondary caregiver leave
• 20 hours of pre-natal appointment or adoption interview leave
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Culture & vibe

Yarra Valley Water Australia welcomes all people regardless of ethnicity, background, life experiences, socioeconomic status, stage of life, faith, sexual orientation, and gender identity and wants their employees to be able to achieve their full potential regardless of their diverse backgrounds and characteristics. They have Employee-led working groups in place to further drive and embed their Diversity & Inclusion initiatives and culture into their workplace.

To learn more about Yarra Valley Water Australia's culture, watch this video.

About you

You will be a 3^rd or 4^th year Student studying Engineering (Civil, Environment, Chemical, Mechanical and Electrical disciplines) or Science Degree (Microbiology, Environmental Science, Spatial Systems & Data Science disciplines).

How to apply

This role is currently closed. If you are interested in this role, simply click "Pre-Register" and Prosple will inform you once this position from Yarra Valley Water Australia opens again.