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, the largest water and wastewater utility in New Zealand, delivers 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. That's an investment of $2.5 million every day.
It doesn't just stop there; we ensure that sustainability lies at the heart of everything that we do to help protect our water resources for future generations. This means we are continuously focused on how we can reduce our carbon footprint with initiatives like solar panels, electric cars, revegetation
Reporting to the Head of Strategy and Consenting, this is a hands on role leading a team of motivated and passionate planning, engineering and commercial professionals, responsible for leading and integrating large scale and/or complex developments into Watercare's infrastructure planning and delivery while ensuring alignment with both Auckland Councils and Watercare's development strategies and policies.
The main focus of this role is early engagement with major developers and developers of complex developments, to ensure that Watercare's position on Private Plan changes and servicing of development with essential Water and Wastewater is aligned with Watercare and Council polices and strategies.
The role also provides support and leadership for our project specific interface across the business with other network utility providers such and CCOs.
You will be establishing and managing multiple agreements and arrangements to implement water and wastewater servicing solutions for new developments, supporting growth across Auckland and maintaining key relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including the development community.
To be effective in this role your background will include:
A relevant tertiary qualification with extensive experience in a related field within the utilities sector
Experience in interactions with the commercial, industrial and housing development communities
Evidence of strong people leadership skills
Excellent report writing, presentation and briefing skills and strong verbal communication and interpersonal skills
Preferably you will have knowledge of water and wastewater infrastructure and the Resource Management Act and other relevant legislation as it relates to development
You are likely to have experience negotiating funding agreements and preferably have worked with Council teams that support development and consenting
You have strong knowledge of policy and asset planning and engineering and well-developed facilitation, problem solving and influencing skills
Strong ability to deliver successful commercial outcomes within complex relationship frameworks
Ability to comprehend, analyse and interpret data.
We offer a competitive salary and staff benefits package including:
Training and development opportunities
Life and income protection insurance plans
Generous parental leave policy
Employee discounts at a range of large retailers
Modern offices in the heart of Newmarket with easy access to public transport
Discounted Wilson parking
On site free gym.
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, then please apply online today - www.careers.watercare.co.nz.
Reference # 34957
Posted on 22 Aug 2024
Closes on 01 Oct 2024 09:00
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
Expertise Construction, Consulting & Strategy, Engineering
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