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 Watercare is the largest water and wastewater utility in New Zealand, delivering more than 400 million litres of water to Auckland every day. Now is an exciting time to join Watercare; we're planning to spend $18.5 billion over the next 20 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 $2.5 million every day. We ensure that sustainability lies at the heart of everything we do to help protect our water resources for future generations. This means that we are continuously focused on how we can reduce our carbon footprint with initiatives like solar panels, electric cars, revegetation programmes, and much more. Maintenance Services Networks are responsible for the delivery of the water and wastewater reactive, planned, and routine maintenance for the Central Network region for Watercare Services Limited. We have a core base of ongoing work commitments 24/7, 365 days. As the Wastewater Supervisor, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operational supervision of the Drainage crew and contracted third-party specialist resources performing the Central Network region reactive maintenance contract works for Watercare's Network Operations team. You will organise the necessary resources and equipment to meet reactive maintenance requirements and to plan routine, preventative, and project works to ensure efficient, high-quality, and low customer impact performance of the required work tasks. You will manage the reactive maintenance roster and provide adequate coverage to maintain agreed service delivery standards 24/7/365. Other responsibilities will include: Ensuring safe, high-quality, and contractually compliant operations are reliably performed at all times. Recruiting and retaining high-performing field crew and contract personnel, managing performance through timely and appropriate steps to address individual performance issues. Participating in the Duty roster to provide escalated incident management and to manage higher-level escalations as appropriate. This is an outstanding opportunity for someone wanting to gain real practical experience in a supportive environment with career progression opportunities. We are seeking someone who has proven people management skills to enable planning and completion of the jobs to ensure they are completed safely, on time, on budget, to quality, and to the satisfaction of our clients. In this role you will bring: Proven people management skills and a strong work ethic. Experience in supervising and mentoring on-site staff. Qualification in Utilities Maintenance or Pipeline Construction, L3/4 preferred but not essential. Practical experience in the wastewater utilities sector with a very good understanding of wastewater reticulation networks. A commitment to Health and Safety. Strong communication skills, both written and oral, and a good level of computer literacy. Current clean Class 1 NZ drivers licence. 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 pehea te tono mai | How to Apply Come and join our team! If you are looking for an exciting career opportunity with a fantastic team, please apply online today - . Reference # 33496 Posted on 04 Jul 2024 Closes on 19 Jul 2024 17:00 Location(s): Auckland, Central Interceptor - Mt Eden, South/East, Ardmore, Mangere, Papakura, Penrose, Pukekohe/South East/West, North/West, Albany/Rosedale, Waitakere, Huia, Warkworth, Central, Newmarket. #J-18808-Ljbffr
