When New Zealand's Commerce Commission set Transpower's spending for 2025 to 2030, it did something unusual. It reduced the allowance not because the work was unnecessary, but because it doubted Transpower could hire the people to do it. That decision tells you a lot about the HV labour market on both sides of the Tasman.
Read articleA data hall can look complete for weeks before anyone will put a customer in it. The building is not the product. The product is a facility that keeps running when the grid, a generator or a cooling unit drops out, and proving that is a specialist job with a very small talent pool.
Read articleFor a long time the business model was to develop, build and sell. More Australian developers now keep what they build, and keeping an asset is a different job with a different team. Most of that team is hired too late.
Read articleA solar farm, a wind farm and a battery look nothing alike from the road. Electrically they finish in the same place, a substation, and the people who design, build, test and energise that substation are now the scarcest part of the delivery team.
Read articleFor twenty years the critical path on an energy project ran through planning, then finance, then construction. It now runs through a factory in another hemisphere, and most hiring plans have not caught up.
Read articleAn approved project is a project that has permission to exist. Getting it to produce electrons is a separate discipline, run by a few hundred people across Australia, and the market has not worked out how to hire them.
Read articleEvery generator, network and water utility in the country now carries a cyber risk management obligation. The engineering and the security worlds each assume the other has it covered. Neither does.
Read articleAEMO's latest statement of opportunities reads as good news, and it is. Read the conditions attached to it and you find a delivery problem, and every delivery problem in this market is a people problem.
Read articleThe permanent project team is no longer the default. Across a year of record completions, shorter builds and reset policy, owners have been moving delivery capability onto properly run contract engagements. Here is why, and where it goes wrong.
Read articleTwelve weeks left. The pipeline going into 2027 is larger than the one that produced a record build year. Here is what is realistically achievable in the quarter, and what should be decided in the next three weeks.
Read articleA $600 million hydrogen jobs plan cancelled, a hydrogen office disbanded, and the funds redirected into keeping a steelworks alive. The green iron opportunity has not disappeared. It has been deferred, and that has a workforce cost.
Read articleThe counter offer rate on senior renewables roles has fallen from above fifty percent to around thirty. Acceptance has fallen faster still. The money is no longer the variable, and that changes what both sides should do.
Read articleA record five year pipeline, a peak around this financial year, and cost escalation still running at four and a half to six percent. The question for anyone planning a workforce is what happens on the other side of the top.
Read articlePermanent salary growth has flattened in most disciplines. Contract day rates have not. Here is where pricing sits across energy and infrastructure contracting at the end of the third quarter.
Read articleGippsland has a real cluster. The Illawarra granted no licences at all because no application could be progressed. Against a 2 GW by 2032 target, offshore wind in Australia is now a single region story.
Read articleA five year roadmap, coal closure timelines removed, Borumba relegated from commitment to option, CopperString scaled, and a clear tilt toward gas and smaller storage. We are Brisbane based. This one is close to home.
Read articleThe ACCC has flagged structural shortfalls on the east coast from 2027 as legacy fields decline. Whatever the policy answer turns out to be, every version of it requires the same scarce technical people.
Read articleSeptember to mid December is the last clean run at a hire this calendar year. Work backwards through notice periods and the real decision deadline is closer than most hiring plans assume.
Read articleA gigawatt scale campus filed for Wagga Wagga across four buildings. A 400 MW campus proposed outside Geelong beside an existing substation. The land and power are regional. The workforce is not.
Read articleUp to 84,000 additional electricians by 2030. Up to 700,000 clean energy workers by 2050. An engineering shortfall of around 200,000 by 2040. These numbers are not recruitment problems. They are structural ones.
Read articleMost organisations decide this by habit or by budget line, not by analysis. Here is the framework we use with clients, the roles that belong in each column, and the real cost comparison.
Read articleSeventeen projects in delivery adding 3,342 MW. A pipeline of 289 projects and 44 GW. An energy gap flagged for the early 2030s. New Zealand has stopped being a quiet market and started competing for the same people.
Read articleAustralia is now the third largest utility scale battery market on earth, with 14 GW and 37 GWh at or nearing financial close. The flagship projects have taught the market something expensive about commissioning.
Read articleWe said in July that the strongest candidates would be gone in four to six weeks. They were. Here is what the August market looks like for the employers who did not move, and what is still available.
Read articleOriginally 2025. Then August 2027. Now April 2029. Eraring's second extension buys the grid time and costs the workforce certainty. Both effects are worth understanding properly.
Read articleUp to 2 GW of AI compute capacity planned by 2027, against an existing national data centre load of around 1.6 GW. If even half of it lands, this is the largest single workforce event in Australian digital infrastructure.
Read articleThree flagship hubs abandoned. A $12.5 billion Central Queensland project discontinued. South Australia's hydrogen office disbanded. This is not a pause in the hydrogen workforce. It is a redistribution.
Read articleThe final 2026 ISP lifted the net market benefit of transmission to $28 billion and confirmed 6,000 km of new lines against an existing 44,000 km network. Nobody has published the headcount that implies.
Read articleFifteen battery projects. 4.2 GW. 16.1 GWh. Tender 8 landed in June and Tender 10 closed bids in August. If you want to know who will be hiring in nine months, read the tender outcomes.
Read articleThirty four projects reached full output in the 2025 to 2026 financial year. That is 9.1 GW, more than double the year before. The build rate is no longer the constraint. The people who commission it are.
Read articleTransmission gets the headlines but distribution networks carry the electrification load. LUVI on DNSP hiring, EV charging and the poles and wires talent squeeze.
Read articleSpecialist energy and infrastructure candidates are off the market in days. Why slow hiring processes lose shortlists in 2026 and what good speed looks like.
Read articleEraring, Yallourn and Callide B are all on the closure clock. Where Australia's coal power workforce goes next, and why smart energy employers are recruiting it now.
Read articleAustralia built the solar farms, wind farms and batteries. Now someone has to run them. Why operations and maintenance talent is the next squeeze in Australian renewables.
Read articleAustralia cannot train its way out of the energy skills shortage fast enough. How skilled migration, the Skills in Demand visa and global talent are filling the gap in 2026.
Read articleJuly has flipped the switch on FY27 budgets. Where the new financial year hiring wave is landing first across Australian energy, transmission, data centres and infrastructure.
Read articleA mid year update to our 2026 salary report. Where Australian energy pay premiums grew, from BESS commissioning to HV and rail, and where pay cooled.
Read articleEnd of financial year is the moment to prepare your new FY hiring. Use the quiet weeks for talent mapping and beat the July surge in Australian energy.
Read articleDeclining Bass Strait and a southern states shortfall are reshaping demand for commercial, reservoir and operations talent across Beetaloo, the Surat and gas peakers.
Read articleWestern Sydney is not the only airport story. LUVI on Melbourne's third runway, Brisbane, Perth and regional upgrades, and the scarce aviation delivery talent.
Read articleSRL East delivery is pulling tunnelling and rail systems talent hard. LUVI on Melbourne's mid 2026 hiring market and the competition with Metro Tunnel teams.
Read articleA sector by sector read on Australian energy and infrastructure hiring at the 2026 half: renewables, transmission, data centres, oil and gas, infrastructure.
Read articleGreen iron and green metals are reframing the Pilbara as an industrial precinct, not just a mine. LUVI on the talent convergence reshaping WA energy hiring.
Read articleGrid connection queues, onsite generation, storage and renewable PPAs are colliding with the data centre boom. Why energy literacy is now a hiring requirement.
Read articleCommercial, industrial and behind the meter solar is a distinct market from utility scale. LUVI on EPC and installer demand, electricians and the SME developer scene.
Read articleCounter offer acceptance is falling across Australian energy hiring. Why money alone no longer holds candidates and how employers should close offers.
Read articleHumeLink, Marinus Link, VNI West, EnergyConnect and Central West Orana REZ are mobilising at once. The constraint is people, and the competition is interstate.
Read articleState health and education building programs offer steady, counter cyclical demand. LUVI on the social infrastructure pipeline and why it stabilises careers.
Read articleREZ driven onshore wind is in full construction across regional Australia in 2026. LUVI on turbine logistics, balance of plant crews and the commissioning bottleneck.
Read articleDensification, edge data centres and Low Earth Orbit are reshaping Australian telco infrastructure. Inside the refresh and the engineers it now demands.
Read articleSpecialist contract day rates are holding or rising across Australian energy even as permanent pay flattens. What the wave hiring model means for clients.
Read articleAs the North West Shelf and Bass Strait age, late life and decommissioning scopes are reshaping demand for subsea, ROV and plug and abandonment talent in Australia.
Read article850MW Waratah. 500MW Liddell. 460MW Eraring. The BESS pipeline is accelerating faster than Australia can produce commissioning engineers.
Read articleHow subsea cable landings, intercapital fibre and regional builds form the connectivity layer beneath Australia's data centre boom, plus the talent it demands.
Read articleSnowy 2.0, Borumba and the Pioneer Burdekin debate define Australia's long duration storage push. LUVI on TBM talent and the very long build cycle.
Read articleAUKUS reshapes Australia's defence infrastructure workforce. LUVI on the submarine program, Osborne, HMAS Stirling and the scarcity of security cleared talent.
Read articleWhere rates are going in 2026 across renewable energy, infrastructure, data centres and oil and gas in Australia. Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth.
Read articleM12, Coomera Connector, North East Link and the Bruce Highway anchor a huge road pipeline. LUVI maps where the civil, tunnelling and ITS jobs sit in 2026.
Read articleAustralian renewable energy project development is stalling. FID deferrals, grid connection bottlenecks and capital cost inflation are rewriting 2026 hiring plans.
Read articleAfter 2025 FID deferrals, Australia's hydrogen sector runs at two speeds. We map where durable jobs sit: electrolyser FIDs, ammonia export and Headstart.
Read articleWestern Sydney Airport opens in 2026. That is the starting gun for a decade of further NSW infrastructure upgrades. Metro, rail, M12, Bradfield city. Who is hiring.
Read articleScarborough, Barossa and Pluto Train 2 are pulling mechanical, piping, E&I and commissioning talent west to WA and the NT. Inside Australia's LNG hiring boom.
Read articleHow to read the 2026 Federal Budget for Australian energy and infrastructure hiring, from Rewiring the Nation to the Capacity Investment Scheme pipeline.
Read articleThe road to Brisbane 2032 is the biggest infrastructure hiring wave Queensland has ever seen. Stadiums, rail, road, village, airports. Who is hiring now and for what.
Read articleAustralia's offshore wind sector is taking shape across Gippsland, the Hunter and Illawarra. LUVI on the declared zones, the interface roles and the talent race.
Read articleSydney Metro, Cross River Rail, Suburban Rail Loop and Inland Rail run at once. LUVI maps the rail systems talent crunch across signalling, T and C and rolling stock.
Read articleBrent and LNG price swings change the whole Australian construction hiring cycle. Why oil and gas capex is the leading indicator for infrastructure recruitment.
Read articleUtility scale solar is rebuilding momentum across Queensland, NSW REZs and WA in 2026. LUVI on cheaper modules, the storage pivot and the roles in demand.
Read article326 Australian data centre projects tracked. Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth are in a hyperscale build out that dwarfs the prior decade. Who is hiring and who is winning.
Read articleAustralia's energy transition is gated by transmission, not generation. REZ, HumeLink, VNI West, EnergyConnect and Marinus Link compete for scarce HV engineers.
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