Vacation Student - ICT null

Your role

Join the undergraduate Vacation Program to gain hands-on industry experience in Unitywater's dynamic and innovative organisation. These paid undergraduate positions are offered once a year for a 12-week placement over the summer holiday period (Nov 2024 – Feb 2025), working 4 days per week. 

Opportunity:

• Assist in the configuration of ITSM tools to enhance workflow and capabilities, analysing service reports to monitor performance metrics, SharePoint and Power Platform environmental audit and recommendations.
• Experience streamlining business support processes, project delivery, enterprise system admin and governance.

About you

The ICT Technology Operations role is open to ICT, Computer Science students.

To contribute to Unitywater’s values of Reliability, Safety, Honesty & Integrity, Efficiency, One Team, Innovation, you will demonstrate the following skills and qualities for the role:

• Must be a current tertiary undergraduate student.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of commitment.
• Adaptability.
• A willingness to learn and to make a positive contribution to the business. 

Benefits

Unitywater offers a range of financial and personal benefits to help you reach your goals. See some of the benefits below:

• Health and wellness benefits
• Flexible work arrangements
• Purchased annual leave
• Floating public holidays
• Paid parental leave
• EAP Provider
• Salary packaging

Training & development

They offer you hands-on, real-life workplace exposure, allowing you to engage in meaningful work and gain insights. Additionally, Unitywater provides a Mentoring Program for both emerging and experienced leaders, fostering professional relationships and leadership skills, along with a variety of formal training courses that support both leadership and technical development.

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Career progression

Some of the students who completed the Vacation Program were offered ongoing casual work and others moved straight into graduate positions in their Graduate Development Program. After the two years spent in the Graduate position, they offer permanent employment within the company.

How to apply

Please clearly indicate in your cover letter which opportunity you are applying for from those listed above. Submit a cover letter and resume online.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• unitywater.com/about-us/careers/our-career-pathways/vacation-work-program
• unitywater.careers.site/our-employee-benefits/
• unitywater.com/about-us/careers