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
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Commissioning Specialist to join our high performing team. Reporting to the Operations Commissioning Manager, this role is responsible for providing instrumentation and control expertise to support efficient commissioning and successful handover of projects, to maximise system efficiency and deliver positive outcomes to our customers.
In addition, the Senior Commissioning Specialist will grow and expand knowledge across the various instrumentation and control disciplines and build instrumentation and control commissioning capability to ensure that Watercare can continue to meet its statutory, corporate and customer focused obligations.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Support commissioning activities ensuring consistency, minimise business risk and optimise solution delivery.
- Support improvements to existing business processes and documentation to ensure more efficient and effective commissioning and handover of assets.
- Provide mentoring of commissioning, infrastructure and operational staff to ensure best practice is followed and instrumentation/control capability is grown within Watercare and partner organisations.
- Support the entry to service, performance testing and take-over/hand-over by Watercare Operations of new or upgraded assets
Ngā pūkenga e rapu nei mātou | About you
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:
- A relevant tertiary qualification in instrumentation or equivalent discipline.
- A minimum 10 years’ experience in instrumentation and control in a production environment (operational, maintenance or project)
- Proven experience in driving a strong HSW culture by providing guidance and coaching associated with areas of experience and expertise.
- Exceptional verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills.
- Knowledge and experience in business continuance systems and quality systems
- Previous experience in coaching or mentoring others.
- The ability to establish and grow strong relationships and work collaboratively with a variety of water industry practitioners, stakeholders and the community at large
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.
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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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