Senior Asset Planning Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Asset Planning Engineer, Rail Assets to join our dedicated and friendly Assets and Infrastructure Team in Metlink. This is a permanent role based in our Cuba Street office .

About the role

The Senior Asset Planning Engineer, Rail Assets will work across the Group and with key stakeholders who deliver public transport for the Wellington Region. You will be responsible for ensuring our long-term plans relating to strategic asset control are developed and are deliverable.

You will provide assurance that strategic rail assets can be delivered and managed with a focus on required levels of service and affordability in accordance with our strategic objectives.

This role will lead the development and delivery of asset management plans for Metlink's rail assets, including the 30-year expenditure forecast, the development of standards and a sustainable works plan. This is to ensure the smooth running of the Metlink's transport network and to provide an attractive and safe customer experience.

Essential to the role is development of Portfolio Management Plans, and subsequent input into Metlink's Asset Management Plan. As a senior member of the team, you will play an integral role in the mentoring and coaching of others in the Metlink group.

Skills and experience required

The ideal candidate will have the following essential skills and experience:

• An appropriate tertiary qualification, preferably in engineering or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
• Experience in Asset management of public transport fleet and infrastructure assets.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and build consensus where there are multiple priorities.
• Demonstrated experience providing quality, comprehensive reports at a senior level, including business case development, which cover benefits realisation, risk management and quality assurance aspects.
• Experience leading complex projects to successful completion, ensuring organisational change is effectively embedded into business as usual.
• Capability in Te ao Māori in line with Greater Wellington's Māori Capability Framework.

What we offer

• Work to suit your life and whānau with our flexible working policy.
• We'll encourage you to grow and prosper with a range of learning and development opportunities, internal secondments and career progression.
• Your wellbeing is our priority - we'll provide medical and trauma insurance support through our employee assistance programme, including Rongoā Māori partner providers, generous annual and sick leave along with Tangihanga leave and support.
• We want you to have a sense of belonging, where you can reflect your personal and cultural identity in the way that you work.
• Social clubs, staff networks and a friendly and inclusive culture.
• Great working environment.

Come help treasure and grow our rohe together

Our rohe and its lands, waterways, animals, plants and people can only grow stronger if they are nurtured.

To join our team is to step up and commit to playing an active part in this important mahi. That means restoring nature, connecting people and places, reducing environmental impacts and helping this rohe and its people prosper.

We are part of a collective movement alongside mana whenua and community members whose hopes for the future of this region are just as high as your own.

Our efforts across environmental management, public transport, flood protection, regional parks and water supply are interconnected and integral to treasuring our rohe and growing our future.

How to apply

Greater Wellington is proud to be a member of Te Uru Tāngata Centre for Workplace Inclusion. We value diversity and are committed to an inclusive, flexible, and supportive workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and welcome the unique talent and experience you will bring to our team.

We are passionate about ensuring our recruitment processes are fair and equitable. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs or adjustments that need to be made so we can offer a recruitment process that is more accessible to you.

Click on the Apply link to view the position description and to apply for the role with a cover letter and CV.

All applicants will be required to provide proof of their eligibility to work in New Zealand.

For further information, please contact Nathan Briggs, ***email_hidden***

Applications close: 5.00pm, Friday 12 June 2026.

However, we will be shortlisting applications as they come in and will interview as soon as possible to secure the right person.

Greater Wellington is an accredited Living Wage Employer. We're committed to making sure our people, including people in our supply chain, earn enough to meet life's basic needs, support their whānau, and participate fully in their communities.

The remuneration for this position, inclusive of all benefits, is $108,779 to $169,169, with a midpoint of $135,974.

Starting remuneration will depend on the skills and experience of the successful applicant.