2026 Essential Water Electrical Apprenticeship

We are unique

Essential Water is an organisation that values your voice empowers your autonomy recognises the strength in diversity and prioritises your well-being while offering attractive remuneration and benefits. Essential Water provides high-quality and reliable water and sewerage services to approximately 18000 people in the Far West New South Wales.

Essential Water Apprenticeships

An apprenticeship is a great way to kick start your career. With combined formal learning and on-the-job training your journey will be supported by a great crew and professional training team. You will continue to grow and develop at Essential Waterand have fantastic career pathway options and opportunities.

All apprenticeship roles are four-year programs which combine structured nationally recognised training with on-the-job experience.

Our Water Apprenticeships are based out of our Broken Hill depot with our Essential Water business.

About You

You are a passionate person who is excited to start your career within a supportive and inclusive team. If you love to work outdoors while gaining a nationally recognised qualification and making positive contributions to your local community then this is the opportunity for you.

All of our apprentice positions are physical roles and you will be required to maintain a level of physical fitness with the ability to lift carry push pull and stand for extended periods of time. Tasks will involve actions such as squatting bending twisting kneeling shovelling walking crouching and balancing.

You will require upper limb strength and endurance to undertake tasks including carrying and stabilising ladders climbing reaching overhead and working at heights for extended periods of time.

At times you may be required to travel for blocks of training (with costs covered by Essential Water) to participate in the role specific training requirements.

About the Apprenticeship

The Electrical team at Essential Water is responsible for the maintenance and repairs of all electrical infrastructure within the business. The Electrician Apprenticeship is a combination of formal TAFE Training (Certificate III in Electrotechnology Electrician) and on the job team is also responsible for the installation and commissioning of any new infrastructure as required to replace or augment existing plant and equipment within the scope of our team. Essential Water infrastructure includes pumping stations water & sewage treatment plants storage & reticulation systems SCADA & telemetry networks.

Why Essential Water

We offer competitive remuneration commensurate with skills and experience and 16% superannuation.

For information on our employee benefits (such as Fitness Passport Apple JB Hi-Fi and Dell Employee Purchase Programs and 26 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary carers) please visit our website.

We are proud to be recognised as aWORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women.

Joining Essential Water means you are the type of person where camaraderie supporting your colleagues and balance in your life are all important.

Our culture is diverse respectful and one where you have a voice which is heard. We know we can only be successful in supporting the customers who depend on us if we work together.

For further information please contact Frank Napoli Electrical Works and Project Coordinator on.

To be eligible to apply for this opportunity you will need to have:

Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency status

Applications close on Sunday 23 November 2025 at 11:55pm

*Following your application you will need to complete an online assessment. This will need to be completed by 5pm on Sunday 30 November.

Please keep an eye on your inbox for instructions on how to complete the assessment. Please contact careers on if you are having issues.

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Essential Water is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages applicants to apply regardless of gender age ethnicity sexual orientation or disability.

As an organisation our aim is to champion inclusivity in the workplace and celebrate the difference in all our employees.

At Essential Water we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply to Essential Energy (including alternate formats of application forms or alternate ways for accessibility). To discuss adjustment requirements please contact or call us on.