Introduction
Two permanent full-time Electrician positions are available at Wollongong Hospital with Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District. The work supports a live healthcare facility where electrical maintenance, fault response and safe planning can affect patients, clinical teams and essential services.
For this Electrician application, the individual selection criteria responses carry the evidence. Use technical examples that explain the fault or task, the risk you assessed, the standards and procedures you followed, how you managed access or disruption and the result for the hospital service.
Applications close Sunday 26 July 2026. Read the official job ad before submitting.
Role snapshot
- Role: Electrician – Wollongong Hospital
- Organisation: Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District
- Location: Wollongong Hospital
- Vacancies: Two permanent full-time positions
- Salary: $70,017 to $80,520 per annum plus superannuation and salary packaging
- Classification: Electrical Tradesperson Level 1 to 4
- Closing date: Sunday 26 July 2026
- Official advert: View the Electrician job ad
Application requirements
Prepare:
- A current CV
- Individual responses to the selection criteria
Use the responses to give specific technical examples. Include the setting, the risk or fault, the action you took, the standard or procedure you followed and the result.
Essential role requirements
The role record identifies a driver licence and NSW Health vaccination requirements. Confirm the required electrical licence, screening and pre-employment conditions in the official application information.
Candidate evidence areas
Electrical maintenance and fault finding
Describe a fault, maintenance task or installation you completed. Explain how you diagnosed the issue, selected a safe solution and checked the result.
Compliance and safety
Show how you worked to electrical standards, workplace procedures and safety requirements. Include an example where you stopped, escalated or changed work because a risk needed attention.
Working in a live facility
Explain how you planned work around patients, staff, contractors, equipment and operational priorities in a hospital or similarly sensitive environment.
Prioritising urgent work
Give an example of managing a breakdown or competing maintenance requests. Show how you assessed urgency, communicated the plan and restored service.
Communication and teamwork
Describe how you worked with facilities teams, clinical staff, contractors or suppliers. Make the result of the collaboration clear.
Example selection-criteria structure
1. Situation: Set out the facility, task or fault and why it mattered.
2. Technical response: Explain your diagnosis, work method and safety controls.
3. Stakeholder coordination: Show how you communicated with affected people and managed access or disruption.
4. Result: State what was repaired, improved or prevented.
5. Reflection: Connect the example to safe electrical services at Wollongong Hospital.
Before you submit
Before submitting, compare each response with the exact selection criterion and check the portal for page or word limits, electrical licence requirements and health screening information. Re-read the official job ad and make sure every example shows a safe technical decision and a clear outcome.
For help preparing the CV and selection criteria responses, use the Team 3Thirty application support service.