Senior Engineer - Assurance

Description

Summary: Seeking a Senior Engineer - Assurance to provide technical leadership and assurance across asset portfolios, ensuring safety, reliability, and performance, while guiding infrastructure asset management. Highlights: 1. Provide technical leadership and assurance for asset safety and reliability. 2. Guide infrastructure asset management and engineering best practice. 3. Lead project delivery and ensure regulatory compliance. We're looking for a Senior Engineer - Assurance to join our dedicated and friendly Assets Performance Team. This permanent full-time role is based in our central Wellington office in Cuba Mall. **About the role:** As the Senior Engineer - Assurance you will provide technical leadership and assurance across all Rōpū Taiao asset portfolios, ensuring assets are safe, reliable, and performing as intended. You will provide technical expertise and guidance in infrastructure asset management and engineering best practice, lead project delivery, and ensure assets meet performance, safety, and statutory requirements under the Local Government Act, and other relevant legislation. Additionally, you will develop and maintain engineering standards, oversee quality of site works, and provide trusted technical advice for planning, investment, and operational decisions, including flood response and recovery. **Skills and experience required:** * Capability in Te ao Māori in line with Greater Wellington's Māori Capability Framework. * Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) with at least 10-15 years of engineering experience, ideally in infrastructure, water, or environmental sectors. * Demonstrated ability in engineering/infrastructure project management, contract preparation, procurement, report writing, as well as leading technical workstreams and mentoring staff. * Excellent oral and written communication skills, at both the professional technical level and with the general public, including presenting technical projects at an appropriate level for the audience. * Proven experience collaborating with diverse stakeholders, including contractors, consultants, iwi partners, and regulatory agencies. * Strong background in engineering design and construction, particularly in earthworks, river works, hydrology, stopbanks, or other high-hazard water-retaining structures. * Experience applying technical assurance across internal and external projects, with sound knowledge of: * Engineering practice and design * Construction delivery * Safety assurance and risk management * Regulatory compliance and liability * Familiarity with regional council responsibilities, especially in flood protection, erosion control, and dam safety would be an advantage. * Understanding of asset planning, lifecycle management, and integration of engineering input into operational and long-term planning would be an advantage. * Commitment to embedding Mātauranga Māori and te ao Māori principles into engineering practice and supporting respectful engagement with mana whenua. * Full and clean New Zealand drivers license. **** **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 environments across our beautiful region. **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 job 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 Lucy Ashford, 021391051. **** **** **Applications close:** 5.00pm, Sunday, 8 March 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 $119,206 to $178,809 with a midpoint of $149,007. Starting remuneration will depend on the skills and experience of the successful applicant. *Agency applications won't be considered at this time.*