Career opportunities

As one of Australia’s largest energy providers, we are proud of our purpose to lead and accelerate the clean energy transformation for all. 

We are also proud of our history and of the people who have built our energy capability over the decades, and for the role all our generation sites continue to play in ‘keeping Australia’s lights on’.

About Yallourn

Nestled in Victoria's Latrobe Valley on the traditional lands of the Braiakaulung people of the Gunaikurnai nation, Yallourn Power Station – or simply Yallourn, as the community and we call it – has been providing both state and nation with electricity since 1974.

Yallourn is powered by brown coal produced from Australia's second-largest open cut mine, just next door. Every year, we mine around 18 million tonnes of high moisture brown coal that is used to boil water into a superheated steam that drives Yallourn's four massive turbine generators. Together, these turbines produce 1,480 megawatts of electricity an hour – enough to power about 2 million homes. Today, Yallourn provides 22 per cent of Victoria's electricity, and about 8 per cent of Australia's National Electricity Market.

Please note: Yallourn is due to cease generation in mid-2028.

About the Role

Reporting to the Controls Team Leader and forming part of the onsite Controls Team at Yallourn, you will be responsible for safely and reliably inspecting, calibrating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing the Distributed Control System (and other control systems) to maintain a safe and reliable plant & workplace, and optimise plant performance, and meet our customers’ needs.

You will be required to participate in rostered on-call availability, as business requirements dictate once an acceptable level of site knowledge and Control System skill has been obtained.

Duties and Accountabilities

• Provide technical support to the Power Station’s Control System
• Ensure continuous and reliable operation of the Control System
• Minimise plant non-availability and losses due to Control System related failure
• Ensure that the Control System operates within the system design parameters and constraints, whilst maximising production
• Provide quality assurance services for the power station Control System
• Provide guidance in the operation of the Power Station’s Control System to Maintenance and Operations team members where required
• Implement Control System based plant modifications
• Data Analysis using Control System and PI Historians

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

• Associate Diploma/Certificate of Technology or Electrical and Instrumentation trade qualifications as minimum
• Well-rounded interpersonal and communication skills
• Demonstrated experience working effectively in a small team.
• Proven ability to use a computer-based maintenance management system (e.g. MAXIMO)
• Strong knowledge of controls principles and logic, DCS, SCADA etc
• Knowledge of a Power Station’s processes and IC&E systems, including the safe maintenance of these systems.

How to Apply

If this sounds like you, click the 'Apply’ button to submit your application online.

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