Palmerston North City Council – Manawatu County
Make a Difference: Contribute to the development of Palmerston North City while enjoying a fulfilling career that positively impacts our community.
Learning and Development Opportunities: Take your career to new heights with Learning and Development opportunities within Palmerston North City Council.
Benefits: We do more than just pay you a salary too. We have awesome benefits to support you including 5 weeks annual leave and hybrid working.
About the role
Are you ready to step up and take the next step in your career? Would you love to be part of our Developments Team?
As one of our Development Engineers, you will be responsible for all engineering and infrastructure aspects of the land development, subdivision, and land use consenting process. This is your chance to utilise your experience in civil engineering, your eye for detail, and your ability to identify innovative solutions to deliver better outcomes for applicants and the city. You will have an opportunity to review both concept and detailed design and contribute to initiatives to augment and improve the engineering standards.
In this role, your focus will be:
Complete assessments for transport (vehicle and active transport modes), three waters, as well as amenity and reserve requirements associated with new developments and ensure they comply with relevant engineering standards and District Plan requirements while delivering high-quality built infrastructure.
Complete assessments of service connection and vehicle crossing applications to ensure they comply with Council standards and where non-standard are constructed and built with the required additional controls e.g., backflow, metering, and consent approvals.
Review detailed design for roading and three waters infrastructure to ensure it complies with engineering standards for land development and apply your engineering knowledge to facilitate engineering solutions.
Complete hold point inspections during development construction to ensure infrastructure is constructed in accordance with engineering standards.
Efficiently track and process consent and services applications to meet Council and statutory processing timeframes while ensuring the level of effort reflects the complexity and risk to Council.
Ensure applications are referred in a timely manner to other team members of the Infrastructure and Customer Units as required.
About you
Ideally, you'll have a detailed understanding of the land development environment, coupled with a relevant tertiary or industry qualification (Engineering or Construction (Civil, Transportation, Building Services)). You'll possess excellent relationship-building, leadership, communication, and time management skills, along with your ability to multi-task and work effectively under pressure.
In addition, you will:
Have knowledge of local government subdivision or building consent processes.
Have design and work experience in a relevant field.
Have the ability to analyse complex issues and come to sound decisions.
About us
Palmerston North (or as we like to call it, Palmy) is a growing, innovative, and exciting city. With small city benefits and big city ambition, Palmy has secured its place on the map as a creative and exciting city, with leading innovation and developments! We're proud to be a city that includes, supports, connects, and uses the talents of the whole community in our pursuit to provide a connected and safe community. We're also a future-focused city who cares about enhancing our natural and built environment. Our future looks bright, it looks vibrant and progressive.
What we offer:
Competitive remuneration between $88,870 and $104,553, with a 3% KiwiSaver employer contribution (where eligible).
5 weeks annual leave and a community service day every year.
Additional long service leave after qualifying periods.
Parental leave benefits, including paid partner's leave, and top-up payments.
Hybrid working principles.
Free access to our on-site fitness equipment.
Free annual flu vaccinations and subsidised health and eye checks every 2 years.
Confidential counselling service.
Waiata group.
Professional memberships and assistance with study leave and fees.
Various wellbeing spaces, including a parents' room and wellness/prayer room; we value our employee experience.
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and welcome applications from all those suitably qualified for this position.
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