Effective workforce management is critical in the energy and utilities sector. By leveraging advanced data visualisation tools, energy and utility HR teams can transform existing data into actionable insights, facilitating quicker and more informed decision-making.
By leveraging modern tooling, HR can position themselves to streamline operations and to make more informed decisions.
Energy and utility leader’s that have worked with Navigo to elevate their workforce management strategy
Current challenges for Energy and Utilities HR teams
The energy and utilities sector faces distinct challenges that demand HR leaders to navigate complex regulatory landscapes, promote inclusivity, manage an ageing workforce and keep pace with rapid technological advancements.
Limited access to live workforce insights: HR teams often struggle to get a clear, real-time view of their organisation. Data is scattered across systems, and manually maintained charts or reports are often outdated the moment they’re shared. Without live metrics on headcount, vacancies or acting roles, it’s hard to support the business with timely insights or make informed workforce decisions.
No full view of the organisation: In large utilities organisations, it’s not always clear how different teams, roles and reporting lines fit together. This makes it difficult to identify gaps, plan restructures or support workforce planning efforts. Without a single, accurate view of the full organisation, it’s easy to miss critical details — especially around nominal vs. actual positions or secondments.
Too much manual admin and disconnected data: Maintaining org charts, cleansing HR data or generating reports often involves repetitive manual work. This slows down the HR team and increases the risk of errors. With data stored in multiple places, keeping everything accurate and consistent becomes a constant challenge.
How Navigo is helping HR in Energy and Utilities
Streamlined Compliance Management
Diversity and Inclusion Enhancement
Efficient Succession Planning
Skill Development and Training
Navigo has spent 20+ years in enhancing HR operations through digital transformation. We provide advanced organisational charts, workforce analytics and organisational design software, all backed by our expertise in technical payroll and HRIS database systems. Our tools are tailored to meet the unique needs of the energy and utilities sector, helping HR teams to manage their diverse workforces effectively.
We’ve worked with numerous energy and utilities companies across Australia and have developed solutions that streamline payroll data management, employee position management, workforce modelling and compliance reporting. Our workforce visualisation software integrates critical data from various sources into a single source of truth. This ensures that HR managers have access to accurate and current information, enabling informed decision-making. By automating a range of manual tasks, from org charting to detailed reporting, Navigo allows HR teams to focus on strategic initiatives, thereby increasing operational efficiency and effectiveness.
Customer Success Story: Australian utilities org chart project – delivered in just 6 weeks!
One of Australia’s major utilities companies worked with Navigo to transform their org design. The result? Their project went from demo to implementation in just 6 weeks, an exceptionally quick turn around for HR tech!
Our org design tool eliminated hours of manual work, connected the business with the payroll ‘source of truth’ and delivered a range of unexpected quick wins.
Read the full customer success story here.
Visualisation examples that are proven to enable Energy and Utilities HR teams
HR Dashboard
org.manager delivers an always-up-to-date dashboard that pulls data directly from your HR and payroll systems. HR and business leaders can quickly see accurate roll-up metrics, track workforce trends and drill into specific areas — without waiting on a manual report. This gives the team confidence in the numbers and allows for faster, data-informed decisions.
Organisational Hierarchy
The interactive org chart gives you a clean, navigable view of your entire workforce. You can see who’s in what role, who’s acting or seconded, and what positions are vacant or filled. This view supports onboarding, planning and strategic conversations with leaders who need to understand team structures at a glance.
Data cleansing view
org.manager’s Data Cleansing View helps energy and utilities HR teams cut down on manual admin by giving them a clear picture of data quality across the organisation. It highlights issues like missing manager information, orphaned positions and invalid employment types, all in one place. With filters to drill down by team, role type or business unit, it’s easy to isolate and resolve discrepancies without relying on spreadsheets or chasing updates across systems. This streamlines data maintenance and ensures your workforce records are always accurate and audit-ready.
Navigo’s security credentials
We are focused on protecting our customers’ data and information. Our flagship product, org.manager, is hosted by Navigo on Microsoft Azure (NSW, Australia). Azure Data Centres are ISO27001, IRAP & APRA Data Centre certified and accompanied by Navigo ISO27001 certified processes. We maintain a range of cyber security credentials, policies and industry engagement.
“The Navigo team were extremely efficient and easy to work with. We found that org.manager was really good value considering the impact it has had on our organisation. Compared to other solutions, it’s priced very well.”
HR Digital Systems and Business Insights Manager, People and Capability
A better solution, built for Energy and Utilities HR teams
Navigo’s data visualisation solutions are specifically designed to assist energy and utilities in managing complex workforce data across diverse payroll and HRIS systems. This technology enables you to maintain and enhance your data model throughout the ongoing transformation process in the energy and utilities industry.
Book a quick meeting to learn more about how we have helped other energy and utilities HR teams optimise their workforce management strategies effectively.
