Our people are integral to the effective and efficient performance of our businesses, which enables us to deliver on our objective of creating long-term sustainable value for Securityholders.
Workforce
The safety and reliability of our networks is critical to ensure we maintain our social licence to operate. Across our businesses we are investing in the development of our people, including technical skills training, leadership training, mentoring and career development to ensure our people can undertake their work and develop their careers. Their capability and behaviours are critical to our success as we invest to build our businesses.
Spark Infrastructure, with our businesses, are equal opportunity employers committed to promoting diverse, engaged and inclusive workplaces and offering career development opportunities for our people. We are committed to delivering a strong inclusive culture that enables all employees to thrive and be successful. We also support flexibility so our people can achieve a balance between work and personal lives. All of our businesses use employee surveys to assess the level of employee engagement and alignment with strategic priorities. Employee engagement surveys also provide honest feedback so that we can continually improve our operations and management of our people. Survey outcomes directly shape people initiatives prioritised for the following year.
Across our businesses we are investing in the development of our people, including technical skills training, leadership training, mentoring and career development.
Victoria Power Networks created the Women in Electrical Engineering scholarship to attract women to the field of electrical engineering. Three scholarships are awarded, with recipients receiving support in their final two years of study, an assigned mentor from within their business and 12 weeks of vacation work experience before their final year of study. The program now funds and supports six female students studying at Monash University, Melbourne University and RMIT. Both RMIT scholarship recipients are on permanent Australian humanitarian visas – Chaza Chahoud is from Syria and moved to Australia almost three years ago and her fellow scholarship recipient is from Iran.