Graduate Opportunities
Mighty River Power believes in investing in its employees. It provides generous benefits, which include the provision of life and income protection insurance, a superannuation allowance, five weeks paid leave each year, and no initial stand-down period for sick and bereavement leave.
As well as employing graduates, Mighty River Power also works closely with students during their studies, providing opportunities for engineering research projects and summer student placements.
Graduate/summer student placements for 2010 have now closed and will re-open in June 2011. If you are interested in applying then please visit this page again in June next year to download the application form.
Generation - Engineering
Mighty River Power's generation assets collectively account for up to 22% of New Zealand's peak energy demand. Mighty River Power operates a diverse and expanding generation portfolio and more than 20% of our energy production is now non-hydro. Our generation expansion programme covers a range of fuel options and includes the biggest geothermal exploration programme in New Zealand in the past 20 years.
Engineers at Mighty River Power play a very significant part in the Company maintaining its position as a world-class electricity generator and retailer. Engineers must understand the bigger picture at an industry level, be focussed on an effective energy market, and make commercially focussed decisions on the management of assets.
Graduate Engineers initially spend time in the engineering department to gain a good working exposure to an operational plant. Following this graduate engineers rotate through at least another two departments of the business to increase their understanding of the business as a whole.
Graduate opportunities may be offered in the following professional areas:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Control & Instrumentation
Marketing
Marketing positions at Mercury Energy cover a wide range of disciplines from brand, direct marketing and e-marketing to sponsorship and advertising. There is plenty of scope within Mercury Energy's customer segments to implement industry-leading campaigns. Being 100% New Zealand owned, Mercury Energy continues to engage in sponsorship, energy-saving and environmental initiatives that fit with our policy of being actively involved in the communities that support us.
Analytics
Data and Operations departments drives the technology, data collection, analysis and reporting requirements for Mercury Energy.
The teams work with some of the most advanced data analysis and reporting tools in the industry. Analysts have the opportunity to work cross-functionally across the business, providing a range of challenging and varied roles.
Our graduates working in the Analytics team have had the opportunity to work in the fields of Operations Research, Financial and Mathematical Modelling, Commercial Evaluations and Data Mining.
Trading
This department is in charge of selling electricity into the Spot Market for retailers to purchase and sell on to customers. The objective of the trader is to determine whether to buy or sell electricity based on the spot price and the generation assets that they have available to them. This role develops commercial awareness and decision making skills in addition to fine-tuning analytical abilities.
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