He kōrero mō mātou | About Watercare
Ki te ora te wai, ka ora te whenua, ka ora te tangata
When the water is healthy, the land and the people are healthy
Now is an exciting time to join Watercare, we're planning to spend $14 billion over the next 10 years to ensure we can continue to support our growing city in a climate-resilient way. When you average that out, that's an investment of $3.8 million every day!
He whakamārama mō te tūranga mahi | About the role
This is an opportunity to play a key role in maintaining and improving one of Auckland's most critical infrastructure networks. As an Operations Engineer - Wastewater Networks, you'll use your technical expertise, problem-solving skills and project delivery experience to help ensure reliable wastewater services for our customers and communities.
You'll work across planning, operations, maintenance and renewals, partnering with teams throughout the business to identify opportunities for network improvement, deliver infrastructure projects, and drive performance outcomes. This role offers a unique blend of operational engineering, asset management and project delivery, providing exposure to a broad range of stakeholders and technical challenges.
Key responsibilities include:
- Analysing network and fault data to identify trends, improve performance and support informed decision-making.
- Scoping and delivering capital renewal and improvement projects across the wastewater network.
- Capitalising capital expenditure post completion of renewal and improvement projects.
- Supporting the optimisation of maintenance programmes to improve network reliability and customer outcomes.
- Ensuring network assets continue to meet current engineering standards, design requirements and operational needs.
- Reviewing and monitoring infrastructure works completed by internal and external contractors.
- Responding to and managing network incidents, ensuring timely resolution and clear communication with stakeholders.
- Participating in an after-hours on-call roster to support operational requirements.
Ngā pūkenga e rapu nei mātou | About you
You are a collaborative engineer who enjoys solving complex problems and making a tangible difference to essential community infrastructure. You're confident working with data, stakeholders and operational teams, and you're motivated by finding practical solutions that improve network performance and customer outcomes.
You'll bring:
- A Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent qualification.
- Experience delivering engineering or infrastructure projects.
- Knowledge of water or wastewater networks, network operations, maintenance, planning or asset management.
- An understanding of civil construction, engineering design, hydraulics and flow behaviour.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to build productive relationships across a range of stakeholders.
- A customer-focused mindset and the ability to make sound decisions in operational environments.
- A full New Zealand driver's licence.
Ngā hua mōu | What's in it for you
We offer a competitive salary and staff benefits package including:
• Training and development opportunities
• Life and income protection insurance plans
• Generous parental leave
• Employee discounts at a range of large retailers
Me pēhea te tono mai | How to Apply
Come and join our team! If you are looking for an exciting career opportunity with a fantastic team then please apply online today - careers.watercare.co.nz.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent qualification
- Experience delivering engineering or infrastructure projects
- Knowledge of water or wastewater networks, network operations, maintenance, planning, or asset management
- Understanding of civil construction, engineering design, hydraulics, and flow behaviour
- Strong communication and stakeholder relationship-building skills
- Customer-focused mindset and sound decision-making in operational environments
- Full New Zealand driver’s licence
What We Do
At Watercare we’re proud to provide a lifeline service to the people of Auckland, while protecting the environment for future generations. Every day we provide the highest quality drinking water to 1.7 million Aucklanders, and take it away again once it’s been used in the sink or flushed down the loo. Without using chemicals, we treat wastewater to a very high standard and safely return it to the environment. We also plan for new and upgraded infrastructure far into the future to ensure we can meet the needs of our fast-growing city. We operate assets worth more than $9 billion – but it’s our people who are our most valuable assets. Our staff are passionate, motivated and trustworthy people who are the leaders in their fields. They’re not afraid of a challenge and are constantly looking for new ways of improving our processes and the service we offer our customers. If this sounds like you, please visit our careers centre to see our job vacancies and be notified of future opportunities: https://careers.watercare.co.nz
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