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
Make a real impact on Auckland's essential water services.
Based in Newmarket, join our Water Networks team and play a hands-on role in protecting the health of our communities and the environment. This is a dynamic engineering role where your work directly contributes to the reliability, safety, and performance of Auckland's critical water infrastructure.
Working alongside a collaborative team of experienced water professionals, you'll gain exposure to network planning, operations, maintenance, and capital delivery activities across Auckland's water network. If you're passionate about problem-solving, continuous improvement, and delivering outcomes that matter, this role offers both challenge and purpose.
You'll support the performance, reliability, and compliance of the water network while partnering with internal teams and external contractors to deliver practical solutions. Every day brings new challenges and opportunities to make a meaningful impact, giving you the chance to apply your technical expertise across a wide range of projects and operational activities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Analyse fault and performance data to improve network reliability and operational performance
- Support capital renewal programmes and forward works planning
- Monitor and review critical infrastructure works delivered by internal teams and external contractors
- Respond to and manage network incidents and operational issues
- Ensure infrastructure complies with current design standards and operational requirements
- Support environmental compliance obligations and customer service performance targets
- Participate in a shared after-hours on-call roster as required
Ngā pūkenga e rapu nei mātou | About you
You're a proactive and solutions-focused engineer who enjoys working collaboratively and remains calm and effective in a fast-paced operational environment.
To be successful in this role, you'll bring:
- A tertiary qualification in Engineering, or equivalent relevant industry experience
- Experience in project coordination, project management, or infrastructure delivery
- Knowledge of water or wastewater networks, civil infrastructure, or utility operations
- An understanding of network operations, maintenance, hydraulics, and flow behaviour
- Strong communication skills with the ability to build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities, make sound decisions, and deliver results under pressure
- A current full 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
- Tertiary qualification in Engineering or equivalent relevant industry experience
- Experience in project coordination, project management, or infrastructure delivery
- Knowledge of water or wastewater networks, civil infrastructure, or utility operations
- Understanding of network operations, maintenance, hydraulics, and flow behaviour
- Strong communication and stakeholder relationship-building skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities, make sound decisions, and deliver results under pressure
- Current full 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
