Jobs at Watercare Services Limited

Deliver internal audit and assurance services focused on cost transparency, financial oversight, supplier billing accuracy, and control effectiveness. The role evaluates financial data, supports strategic and operational objectives, and provides high-quality outcomes with minimal supervision. It requires people leadership, strong commercial judgment, knowledge of legislation and business drivers, and experience in complex public or corporate organizations.

Lead the technical direction of Watercare’s enterprise data and analytics capability. Establish standards and reference patterns, design and assure complex solutions, review code and releases, resolve platform and pipeline issues, and contribute hands-on to data products, models, dashboards, and pipelines. Coach multidisciplinary teams, support governance and scalability, and communicate technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Leads a multidisciplinary data and analytics team, overseeing people leadership, delivery performance, analytics products, reporting, data pipelines, analytical models, and self-service capabilities. Partners with stakeholders to prioritize roadmaps, manage risks, improve service reliability, and deliver trusted insights. Establishes standards, quality practices, and effective ways of working while contributing to the strategic direction of the Data, Analytics & AI function.

The Water Serviceperson will install and repair water pipes and mains, operate small machinery, and maintain water networks while providing customer service as part of a team.

Manages fixed asset accounting and reporting for a significant infrastructure portfolio, including capitalisation, revaluation, reconciliations, disclosures, depreciation, forecasting and audit support. Supports fixed asset and ERP implementation through requirements gathering, configuration, testing, data migration, validation and process improvement. Partners across Finance, Technology, infrastructure and operations teams to improve asset data quality, controls, reporting and system integration.

Lead organisational change for Watercare’s cybersecurity uplift and other strategic initiatives. Responsibilities include change impact and readiness assessments, change and communication planning, stakeholder engagement, leadership coaching, training support, adoption tracking, risk management, and benefits realisation across complex business and technology programmes.

Leads Watercare’s Project Accounting function across its capital investment portfolio. Responsibilities include financial forecasting, cost management, capitalisation, controls, assurance, governance, and integrated performance reporting. The role provides senior financial advice to programme and project leaders, validates forecasts and funding requirements, develops a Project Accountant team, and supports implementation of Oracle Primavera Cloud, Aconex Cost, and related project controls and portfolio systems.

Own financial performance, forecasting, cost reporting, reconciliations, month-end close, governance, and capitalisation across major infrastructure projects. Partner with project managers, commercial teams, contractors, and delivery leads to provide financial insight, manage risks, assess change impacts, improve forecast accuracy, and support informed project decisions throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Provides administrative support to the Finance and Maintenance Service Network teams. Responsibilities include reviewing and closing work orders, verifying project and cost codes, checking labour and material expenses, maintaining records, and supporting weekly payroll through timesheet review, discrepancy resolution, employee record updates, and payroll queries.

Architect and provide technical leadership for industrial control systems across their full lifecycle. Develop architecture strategies, roadmaps, current-state assessments, and future-state solutions for critical water infrastructure. Evaluate technical viability, support feasibility studies and concept designs, guide capital works planning, and ensure alignment with business, digital, and asset-management strategies. The role requires deep OT, DCS, SCADA, IoT, IIoT, infrastructure, and network-design expertise, along with stakeholder leadership and mentoring capabilities.

Provides technical and operational support for water treatment plants, including process analysis, optimisation, troubleshooting, and reliability improvements. Manages small to medium improvement projects, reviews engineering and consultant work, supports commissioning and on-site upgrades, and participates in an emergency callout roster. The role requires engineering design and operations experience, process control knowledge, data analysis skills, project management capability, and a current New Zealand full driver’s licence.

Lead programme-level resource consenting strategies and end-to-end approvals for major infrastructure projects. Provide expert Resource Management Act advice, oversee multidisciplinary teams and consultants, engage mana whenua, regulators, councils and communities, and mentor consenting professionals. The role also monitors legislative developments and provides strategic guidance to support Watercare’s complex, long-term infrastructure delivery programmes.