Hydro One’s award-winning College Consortium program, a partnership with four Ontario colleges (Algonquin College, Georgian College, Mohawk College and Northern College) was established to prepare students to graduate job-ready and succeed as electrical technicians and technologists at Hydro One. 

Hydro One offers scholarships and bursaries, plus “earn while you learn” co-op education and on-the-job learning work terms.  Hydro One recruits from these colleges three times a year.

Through this partnership, Hydro One is bringing its own equipment and technology into college labs and classrooms, and helping develop course curriculum aligned with Hydro One careers.

Over the next four years, a key focus for the College Consortium will be to work towards increasing the representation of First Nation, Métis, Inuit and Urban Aboriginal students in electrical technician and technology programs.  This will help increase the labour pool of qualified Aboriginal candidates applying to the electricity industry and Hydro One upon completion of their program.

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New Graduates

The New Grad Training Program is a two-year training program for graduates from university level engineering and business programs.  There is so much to learn at Hydro One, the program has been structured to provide you with a foundation of knowledge and experience to ensure that you have a successful start to your career.  During the two years, you will have a chance to rotate to different departments and different places in the company.  You will be given real work and real accountabilities.  You will get a better picture of the organization, learn how different groups do their work, as well as meet and network with a wide range of people!  In addition, you will be provided with a series of technical, business and personal development courses that will round out your skill set and knowledge of the industry.

The new grad program at Hydro One offers continuous learning and opportunities to upgrade your skills over two years. During the program, new grads will have on-the-job training rotations through various departments and business units across Ontario.

Recruitment begins in September. Please watch our Careers section at that time for details. Learn more about the new grad program. 

Skilled tradespeople make up a large portion of Hydro One’s workforce including graduates from college technical programs and fully certified skilled trades people that have gone through Hydro One’s Apprenticeship Program.

 Power Line Technicians, Utility Arborists, Construction and Maintenance Electricians and  Coach and Truck Technicians are the four electrical trades apprenticeship programs Hydro One offers.  Candidates successful in getting in to our apprenticeship programs go through extensive three to five years of on-the-job and classroom training where you can earn your Red Seal certification.

Hiring for each of the four apprenticeship programs normally occurs every year.  However, hiring dates and the number of hires change from year to year:

• Some years we may not hire apprentices
• Some years we may hire a limited number of apprentices
• Some years we may increase the number of apprentices we hire.

Announcements regarding hiring will be made on the Hydro One website when the application process for the apprenticeship program opens up.  Please check our Careers section frequently for these updates.

Visit our skilled trades section to learn more about the entrance requirements for each electrical trade and when we will be accepting applications.  For detailed information on the various skilled trades you can also visit www.tradeup.ca.