Principal Strategic Planner
Watercare Services Limited
Date: 1 day ago
City: Auckland, Auckland
Contract type: Full time
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
Watercare is the largest water and wastewater utility in New Zealand supplying more than 400 million litres of water to Auckland every day. 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!
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 that we are continuously focused on how we can reduce our whole of life carbon footprint through our construction programme, and across the lifecycle operation of our assets. We really are a company that wants to make a positive difference.
He whakamārama mō te tūranga mahi | About this role
Working within the Strategy and Planning team, the focus of this role is to lead the research and collaboration workstreams to ensure Watercare's strategies, working with iwi/mana whenua, key stakeholders, the community and internal teams. The purpose is to enable Watercare to plan for Auckland's current and future water service's needs.
You will be involved in developing Watercare's infrastructure servicing strategies ensuring these achieve Watercare's iwi/mana whenua, customer and climate change focused objectives, and connecting the asset management framework to our servicing strategies and asset management plan.
This role will require facilitation, communication and collaboration across the business and Watercare's diverse stakeholder and community groups to ensure that our infrastructure strategies are inclusive, progressive, adaptable and industry leading.
Ngā pūkenga e rapu nei mātou | About you
To be successful in this role you are a true professional who has excellent communication skills and strong interpersonal skills.
Your Background Will Include
We offer a competitive salary and staff benefits package including:
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.
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 supplying more than 400 million litres of water to Auckland every day. 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!
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 that we are continuously focused on how we can reduce our whole of life carbon footprint through our construction programme, and across the lifecycle operation of our assets. We really are a company that wants to make a positive difference.
He whakamārama mō te tūranga mahi | About this role
Working within the Strategy and Planning team, the focus of this role is to lead the research and collaboration workstreams to ensure Watercare's strategies, working with iwi/mana whenua, key stakeholders, the community and internal teams. The purpose is to enable Watercare to plan for Auckland's current and future water service's needs.
You will be involved in developing Watercare's infrastructure servicing strategies ensuring these achieve Watercare's iwi/mana whenua, customer and climate change focused objectives, and connecting the asset management framework to our servicing strategies and asset management plan.
This role will require facilitation, communication and collaboration across the business and Watercare's diverse stakeholder and community groups to ensure that our infrastructure strategies are inclusive, progressive, adaptable and industry leading.
Ngā pūkenga e rapu nei mātou | About you
To be successful in this role you are a true professional who has excellent communication skills and strong interpersonal skills.
Your Background Will Include
- Bachelor degree or equivalent professional qualification.
- Extensive experience working in infrastructure.
- Management of infrastructure strategy/planning investigations or complex research programmes.
- Experience in the New Zealand regulatory environment.
- Proven ability to support business and technology change programmes.
- Extensive coaching/mentoring experience.
- Water industry experience would be advantageous although is not essential.
We offer a competitive salary and staff benefits package including:
- Flexible working.
- Training and development opportunities.
- Life and income protection insurance plans.
- 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.
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.
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