Senior Project Manager

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!

Reporting to the Team Lead - Wastewater Planning Delivery, the focus of this role is to deliver high value and complexity wastewater planning projects in line with Watercare's Asset Management Plan (AMP).  Sitting in the Strategy and Planning unit, the Wastewater Planning Delivery team picks up projects from the business need stage and runs them through feasibility and the delivery of concept designs ahead of handover to our Detailed Design teams. This phase is critical to the shaping of the overall project implementation and addressing key technical and stakeholder requirements to ensure key risks are addressed prior to obtaining funding for subsequent phases.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Progressing the delivery of planning activities associated with the AMP with a focus on highly complex and significant projects and programmes across our wastewater treatment plants and wastewater networks.

• Ensuring that the feasibility phases of our AMP are progressing in a cost-efficient manner and to schedule. You will be independently leading projects and identifying solutions, and delivering infrastructure and operational outcomes that meet our business, community, mana whenua, stakeholder and operational expectations.

 Ngā pūkenga e rapu nei mātou | About you 

To be successful in this role, you will be a strong communicator who thrives on an environment where you are liaising with multiple stakeholders, both internally and externally.  You are a problem solver who is self driven, and have a customer solutions focus.

Your skills and background also includes:

• Tertiary level qualification (engineering, construction, sciences, planning, environmental)

• 10+ years engineering and/or project management experience

• Management of consultant and contractors on multi-disciplinary projects

• Large scale project and programme financial and contract management

• Water industry experience is desirable, as is formal project management training.

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.