Mission To empower communities to share and use energy for a better tomorrow.
Description Essential Energy is responsible for building, operating and maintaining one of Australia’s largest electricity networks that spans 95 per cent of New South Wales and parts of southern Queensland. We deliver electricity network services to more than 800,000 homes and businesses in 1,500 regional, rural and remote communities across extremes of terrain and climate. Essential Energy also provides water and sewerage services to 20,000 customers in Far West NSW. Looking after almost 200,000 kilometres of powerlines, 1.4 million power poles, 136,000 distribution substations and 326 zone substations that span a diverse geographical area. With about 2,900 employees based in depots and offices across four regions, Essential Energy is a State-Owned Corporation and one of the largest employers in regional NSW.
Essential Energy has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 50 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Essential Energy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 78% of employees would recommend working at Essential Energy to a friend. This is based on 50 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
85% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Essential Energy as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Essential Energy.