The Future in Clean

https://www.yourcareer.gov.au/resources/australian-jobs-report/the-future-is-clean
New Energy Apprenticeships
https://www.sarinarusso.com.au/apprenticeships/apprentices-trainees/
What are the jobs?
Clean energy includes many of the occupations you can read about in other sections of Australian Jobs, where the job is focused primarily on working to generate energy from renewable, zero emissions sources.
There are many different types of job roles in the clean energy sector, including:
- clean energy supply: designing, developing, constructing and operating infrastructure to generate, store, transmit and distribute clean energy
- energy efficiency and management: reducing or managing the energy required to deliver energy services
- installation and maintenance: installing and maintaining the technology that uses clean energy
The clean energy sector also includes many traditional job roles across a range of skill levels, including:
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Jobs that are very recognisable in other sectors are also appearing in the clean energy sector:
- Electrical engineering draftspersons and technicians
- Automotive electricians
- Motor mechanics
- Electricians
- Electrical distribution trades workers
- Chemical, gas, petroleum and power generation plant operators
- Structural steel construction workers
- Marine transport professionals
- Urban and regional planners
- Chemical and materials engineers
- Electrical engineers
- Agricultural, fisheries and forestry scientists
- Geologists, geophysicists and hydrogeologists
- University lecturers and tutors/vocational education teacher
- Occupational and environmental health professional
- Construction manager
Where will the opportunities be?
Clean energy will offer attractive career opportunities throughout Australia in both regional and metropolitan locations.
Different regions in Australia are developing their clean energy sector using technologies that best suit the local environment. For example, hydropower is dominant in Tasmania and the Snowy Mountains and wind power is more dispersed with higher concentrations in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia.
The clean energy industry offers careers across a wide variety of different occupations and skill levels.
This page provides a list of the typical occupations in the clean energy industry and the current demand for each job type.
The following table provides a comprehensive list of the occupations that make up the clean energy industry, with a traffic light system highlighting the level of demand for each job type.
Hover over the different elements in the table to find out more about each occupation.
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