Tauranga City Council Looking for Environmental Monitoring Officer at Tauranga, Bay of Plenty Full Time

Tauranga is New Zealand’s fastest growing and fifth largest city. Managing this growth makes for a challenging and dynamic work environment. Tauranga City Council is focused on the city’s future and responding to the changing needs of the community. We want to work with our community to successfully plan for and understand their needs and expectations.

Tauranga City Council has a permanent full-time position available in the CBD for an Environmental Monitoring Officer.

Our Environmental Monitoring team are part of the Environmental Planning Team with the Regulatory and Compliance group, and are responsible for providing high quality planning, monitoring, and responsive regulatory services. The Environmental Planning team is focused on supporting sustainable use, and the development of resources through the delivery of our city’s building developments, environments, and activities.

The purpose of the Environmental Monitoring Officer role at Tauranga City Council is to act as the primary point of contact for key stakeholders, customers, and the community. The Environmental Monitoring Officer is a pivotal role within the Environmental Planning team. This role is multi-faceted and provides a high level of compliance, monitoring, and enforcement under the Resource Management Act, with our team’s focus being on Land Use and Subdivision consent monitoring, and City Plan compliance. Sediment and erosion control monitoring forms a crucial part of this role, as does incident response regarding the investigation of potential breaches of the City Plan or consent conditions. We do this by conducting site visits and checks against the City Plan and/or consent conditions, as well as desktop investigations.

This role includes:

• Coordinating enforcement action professionally to achieve positive environmental outcomes.
• Ensuring effective and accurate monitoring advice is provided to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensuring effective compliance, monitoring, and enforcement of Resource Consents that deliver outcomes that better the community.
• Ensuring enforcement action achieves positive environmental outcomes in line with our Compliance Above Regulatory Enforcement approach.
• Ensuring risks are proactively identified and mitigated and managed according to acceptable risk management methodologies.

To be successful, you will:

• Be open to learning
• Have a current full driver’s license
• Have a proven ability to work with a variety of stakeholders
• Have a tertiary qualification in Environmental Management, or other relevant qualification
• Have experience in administration
• Have outstanding organisational skills
• Have practical knowledge of City Plan, the Resource Management Act 1991, the Building Acts & Code and the Local Government Act 2002.
• Have the ability to build relationships
• Have relevant work experience
• Thrive on managing multiple projects

Benefits:

• Annual salary review + discounted health insurance + laptop provided + life insurance
• Online learning modules + on the job skill development
• TCC Social Club

If you want to be part of an energetic, fun, and supportive team, and you’re passionate about Tauranga’s future, then we’d love to hear from you. For more information, refer to the detailed position description attached. For any queries, please contact Peter Smith at [email protected].

Applications close 12th August 2022, at 23:55pm.

• Our selection process may include behavioural interview(s), psychometric and ability assessments, reference checks and pre-employment screening.
• Tauranga City Council will not accept applications or contact from any placement service, temporary staffing agency or professional recruiter for this vacancy. If/ Where Tauranga City Council requires the support of an agency to fulfill a vacancy, we will seek this support from our network of Agencies. We ask that you please do not contact Tauranga City Council or any of its employees regarding vacancies. Tauranga City Council will not be responsible for, and will not pay, any commissions, fees or other payments related to such unsolicited contact.

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