Our recruitment process
Put your best foot forward.
We’ve put together some helpful information about our recruitment, selection and interview processes to help you land your dream job!
How we advertise our career opportunities
We advertise all our jobs on our careers page.
Most of our recruitment is managed by our in-house team, but we sometimes use recruitment agencies too.
Our current career opportunities
Tips for preparing your application
We ask you to provide a cover letter and a résumé. These are our first impression of you!
Your cover letter should tell us a bit about yourself and what you’re looking forward to. There’s no need for lots of words here: aim for one page or less.
Please note, we won’t ask you to respond to key selection criteria.
Your résumé tells us about your qualifications and experience. Three pages is usually plenty.
Cover letters: the good and the bad
Career advice: writing your résumé
Apply online
If you’ve found the job you’re looking for and think you would be a good fit, apply online.
If you would like to discuss the job before you apply, please get in touch. Most of our vacancies include a direct phone number; usually the person you’ll be reporting to if you’re successful in landing the role!
You will receive an automatic acknowledgement of receipt of your application within 48 hours. If you’ve progressed to the next stage of the selection process, you’ll hear from a member of of pur People (human resources) team.
If you haven’t heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, your application hasn’t progressed. Unfortunately, we don’t notify unsuccessful applicants directly.
Please note, we don’t accept speculative applications, and we won’t keep your résumé on-file for potential future openings.
Our interview process
Interviews can be a bit daunting but we encourage you to be as relaxed as possible about the interview experience.
We’ve read your application and we like what we see. Now we want to know a bit more about you.
As far as possible, we conduct our interviews in an informal and conversational style.
Starting right
Congratulations we are so excited that you have chosen Barwon Water to further your career.
We invite you to dive into your career with us and take advantage of all the opportunities you will be presented with during your employment with Baron Water.
As part of your onboarding experience with us, we are committed to ensuring that you feel as welcomed and supported as possible. Just some of the things you can expect as part of our 12 month Employee Onboarding Experience; a site tour where you will be spending the day out on site visiting some of our reservoirs and treatment plants. This is a great way to get to know the other new joiners and connect our work here across our service region that expands over 8,000 square kilometres to the physical delivery of water to our customers.
You will also take part in a Connection to Country excursion to one of the many culturally significant sites located across our region and is hosted by the Traditional Owners from the Wadawurrung community. This in depth program provides the foundation for creating an appropriate and respectful workplace culture for all employees.
