Date: 16 Jan 2025
Location: Auckland Wide, NZ, 1010
Company: Auckland Council
He angitūtanga: The opportunity
Join our Healthy Waters & Flood Resilience team as a Principal Regional Technical Engineer. In this key role, you’ll lead and champion multiple aspects of three waters operations, focusing on stormwater network issues.
You’ll provide strategic thinking, technical expertise, and operational guidance to ensure industry best practices and pragmatic solutions. Collaborate with various Council bodies, manage risks, and build strong relationships with stakeholders. Your role will also emphasise health and safety, financial management, and continuous improvement.
If you have a passion for water infrastructure and a commitment to excellence, we want you on our team!
Day-to-day you can expect to work on:
- Continuous Improvement: Participate in and develop continuous improvement initiatives.
- Technical Support: Provide engineering technical input, support area operations teams, and oversee complex emergency repairs and capital works.
- Strategic Leadership: Lead strategic thinking, policy development, and provide technical input on operational guidance documents and engineering standards.
- Innovation: Ensure Healthy Waters & Flood Resilience is recognized as an international leader in water infrastructure operations.
- Team Culture: Collaborate closely with your manager to enhance team culture.
- Complex Issue Management: Manage complex issues, understand the legal status of water issues in New Zealand, and work with the legal department to protect the Council.
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He kōrero mōu: About you
For this position you will need to have at least 10 years’ work experience in a combination of three waters infrastructure sector. You will also have a bachelor’s degree in civil, water or environmental engineering and a bonus would be holding a chartered or professional registration status.
As this is a Principal level role, it will go without saying that you have the maturity and confidence to work independently. You will also have a substantial amount of site safety, design and risk management experience under your belt.
Your ability to be flexible will also be taken into consideration as this role will require the successful applicant to undertake an ‘On Call’ duty on a rostered basis every 5-6 weeks.
Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou: What we offer
Auckland Council is one of the largest local authorities in the South Pacific providing essential services and facilities to more than 1.6 million people. We are progressive socially, culturally and environmentally while we work towards creating change having an impact on our journey to becoming a world-class city for our ratepayers and residents.
In return for your hard work, you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and be a part of a friendly and collaborative team that is dedicated to our customers. You will receive dedicated training and development to help build your career and on top of this, as part of our Auckland Council Group, you will gain access to many benefits and discounts.
Ehara taku toa, he takitahi, he toa takitini - My success is not mine alone, but the success of many.
Tono Mai: Apply Now!
Applications close: Friday 31st of January 2025 at 11.59pm
Auckland Council is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and we are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application to assist you through the recruitment process.
