Our people: natural talent

A great business needs talented people. Our people come from all around the globe, drawing on many cultures, professions and backgrounds to work together to power our organisation.

With offices across Australia/Pacific and Latin America, Pacific Hydro is rapidly expanding as the demand for renewable energy and carbon abatement solutions grows. Today, we employ more than 200 permanent staff, and this number is expected to grow by another 75 per cent as we strive to meet our corporate growth targets over the next five years.

Two offices have been established in Brazil - Natal and Sao Paulo - to support our development plans, while our offices in Melbourne, Australia, and Santiago, Chile, have been refurbished to accommodate increasing staff numbers and to ensure all employees have access to a high quality, safe work environment.

Talent management is critical to our continued success. In an increasingly competitive market place, attracting, developing and retaining the best professionals is a key challenge. To this end, each employee is provided the opportunity to undertake regular training and development courses and, as a key part of their responsibilities, all managers work with their employees to develop a detailed yearly training and development plan.

To enhance communication and understanding across Pacific Hydro, we provide Spanish lessons to all head office staff in Australia. While in Chile and Brazil all staff are provided with the opportunity to learn English.

To monitor the success of our human resources programs, we run an annual employee opinion survey of all Pacific Hydro employees globally.  To date, the results have been extremely positive, with our employees' job satisfaction consistently ranked in the first quartile of all organisations surveyed.