2025 Greater Western Water Graduate Program

The 2025 GWW graduate program is now open! Gain hands-on skills and experience in the water industry and support Melbourne’s fastest-growing region.

• Exciting 2-year rotational program with a permanent role at the end of the program.
• Open to grads from Engineering & Science; Business, Arts & Economics; IT & Digital disciplines.
• Salary from $81,000 p/a + 11.5% super

Our 2025 GWW graduate program is open to graduates who have studied in the following disciplines:

Engineering/Science

• Civil
• Environmental Engineering
• Environmental Science

Business, Arts and Economics

• Arts
• Social Science in Public Policy
• Public Administration
• Communication
• Media
• Business
• International Relations
• Finance
• Business Management
• Economics

Information Technology and Digital

• Information Technology (IT) and Computer Science
• Cyber Security
• Software Programming
• Data Engineering
• Data Science

About Greater Western Water. We’re water… and more

GWW is a Victorian government owned water corporation that provides an essential service to some of the fastest-growing communities in Australia, stretching from Melbourne’s CBD to Lancefield in the north and Bacchus Marsh in the west. Find out more about GWW here!

Why join the GWW graduate program?

As a graduate of GWW, you will experience a range of diverse and challenging experiences through rotations in various business functions across the two years of the program and a permanent role after successful completion of the GWW Graduate Program.

Our 2025 Graduate Program at GWW will offer you:

• Diverse hands-on projects.
• Professional training and development programs partnered with exciting networking opportunities.
• Ongoing support from rotational teams, mentors, buddy-system, Executive Leadership Team, and our Learning & Development Team.
• Undertake rotations across various GWW business functions and work on key projects with diverse stakeholders.
• Participate in tailored learning activities that will develop your self-awareness, leadership capability, business skills, resilience, and agility.

View what our GWW graduates have to say

Skills & Experience

• A degree qualification in Engineering, Information Technology & Digital or Business & Arts.
• A positive attitude and a flexible approach to managing changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• High attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including communication (both verbal and written) and problem solving.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Commitment to professional learning and self-development.
• Motivation, and a strong work ethic.

See yourself thrive!

Our vision for GWW is Thriving People and Country. We aim to be as diverse as the communities we serve and are deeply committed to building a workplace where everybody thrives. We’re supportive, inclusive, and friendly, and value everyone for who they are and what they can bring.

We’re seeking applicants across all cultural backgrounds, genders, and abilities, and will make reasonable adjustments or access requirements, so please talk to us about what you need.

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re passionate about this role, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits

• Monthly work life balance day off to treat yourself!
• We embrace flexibility and connection with a balance of on-site and WFH.
• Free onsite parking (subject to availability).
• Gender neutral, 16-week parental leave available from commencement.
• Opportunities to work across our offices in Sunbury, Footscray, Altona, Melton, and other operational sites within our service region.
• Free income protection and salary continuance insurance.
• Access to wellbeing, prayer, and sensory rooms in our Footscray and Sunbury offices.
• Access to our dedicated Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) team and working group.
• Celebrating days and events of significance, including Reconciliation Week, NAIDOC week, IDAHOBIT, Pride in Water, and International Day of People with Disability.
• Opportunity to substitute the Australia Day public holiday for another day.
• Access to EAP a holistic, confidential, and complimentary counselling and coaching available to all employees, immediate family members and flatmates.
• Various in-house workshops such as Acknowledgement of Country, and Yan Gadbaha Cultural Safety.
• Access to corporate health insurance deals with major providers.
• Access to LinkedIn learning.

Application Process

• You will have completed your undergraduate or postgraduate qualification within the LAST three years (February 2022- February 2025) and be available to commence full-time employment by January 2025.
• You will need a resume and a current copy of your academic transcripts.
• Applicants must be Australian Citizens, New Zealand Citizens, or Australian Permanent Residents with permanent Australian working rights. The application form will request that you upload documents to support this status.
• Residing in Victoria to be eligible for employment with GWW.
• If you have chosen a location outside of your home State, you will need to relocate your own expense for the role.
• The final selection stage will be an in-person assessment centre, which is scheduled for Monday, October 28, 2024.
• Throughout the two-year rotational program, you will have the opportunity to work across our offices in Sunbury, Footscray, Altona, Melton, and other operational sites within our service region. View our service region
• GWW is partnering with an external Graduate Consultancy for this recruitment.

Applications close: 11:59pm on Sunday 15 September

So, make a splash and kick-start your career in the water industry with GWW today!

For any enquiries, email gwwgraduates@fusiongc.com.au

Successful candidates must undergo pre-employment checks, including reference checks, qualification checks, national police checks, and working rights in Australia checks.

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