Jobs at Hamilton City Council

Lead complex capital projects for Hamilton City Council from concept through completion, including planning, procurement, delivery, and handover. Manage budgets, contracts, risks, consultants, contractors, technical specialists, governance reporting, and stakeholder relationships. Ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to required quality standards. Projects may include renewals, facility upgrades, infrastructure, building, construction, and vertical infrastructure initiatives.

Prepares and analyzes financial and performance reports, dashboards, and insights for Hamilton City Council. Identifies trends, variances, and performance drivers; supports decision-making, reporting automation, and process improvement using Power BI and Excel. The role also integrates financial and non-financial information, collaborates with Finance Business Partners, responds to reporting queries, and communicates complex financial information clearly to stakeholders.

Lead funded and emerging transport infrastructure programmes, overseeing resources, project teams, controls, cost, schedule, risk, quality, commercial matters, governance, change and benefits. The role requires strong transport-sector knowledge, NZTA/Waka Kotahi funding expertise, stakeholder influence across local and central government, and the ability to mentor project managers and deliver complex capital programmes.

Leads the Finance Business Partnering function and team, providing strategic financial advice, decision support, planning, reporting, budgeting, and performance insights to senior leaders. Partners across council business units on complex initiatives, business cases, investment decisions, and long-term financial sustainability. Builds trusted stakeholder relationships, translates complex financial information into practical guidance, challenges decisions constructively, and develops high-performing finance professionals.

Manage and automate Council infrastructure, including backup and recovery systems, server patching, monitoring, and SLA compliance. Support over 150 Windows-based on-premises, private-cloud, and public-cloud servers using Azure, ESX virtualization, SCCM, and Active Directory. Troubleshoot Windows access and account issues, maintain information security, and ensure infrastructure performance, capacity, availability, and integrity.

Experienced Cybersecurity Engineer responsible for operational, tactical, and strategic cybersecurity activities, including incident response, risk management, security assessments, vulnerability analysis, systems administration, cloud security, security controls, policy development, and implementation of cybersecurity standards. The role collaborates across digital, cloud, network, application platform, service desk, and business teams to improve the organisation’s overall cybersecurity posture.