Trustpower Limited Hiring for Maintenance Technician Job at Taupo Full Time

Mercury is the most widely-owned business in New Zealand with core strengths in harnessing renewable energy and innovating for our customers. We’re thinking boldly about the future and how we can use energy in wonderful ways to inspire Kiwis, creating a brighter future for our country and growing value for our owners

Our Generation business has been on a journey as they build their strategic foundation. This has resulted in staff movements across many teams in Generation which will contribute to key areas as we maximise value of our assets while optimising and managing risk. Our vision is to become the best Asset Manager of generation plants; to enhance and improve operational excellence and performance; manage and protect the long term risk and value of people and assets; and to leverage the capability of our people across our assets.

Our Opportunity:

We are seeking a maintenance professional with an experienced Mechanical background to become an integral part of our team that maintains, operates, manages, and continuously improves our hydro generation assets. This role is looking for a person who can apply their mechanical experience to maintain our generation and ancillary plant. You will need to problem solve diverse problem in a changing and safety conscious environment. There will be opportunity to grow and develop in a range of diverse skills such as planning and scheduling while putting their own experience into action within the open minded, agile site team.

This role is looking for a person to be the Maraetai / Waipapa asset subject matter expert, finding long term solutions to problems, providing quality assurance, contractor supervision while ensuring maximised plant performance, enabling Mercury to be the best electrical generator.

Mercury’s structure enables people in the same role at different locations to share and connect with professionals of the same interests to learn from. You’ll join a close-knit team who value supporting each other and putting safety first.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide effective and timely response to break-in works including planning and execution with a key focus on safe and long-term solutions
• Manage and maintain hydro generation assets
• Implement asset management strategies
• Manage contractors including scoping, evaluation, monitoring and reporting to ensure successful completion of project requirements
• Responsible for the quality assurance and schedule attainment of planned maintenance activities
• Provide supervision of maintenance activities to ensure quality standards are met, along with health & safety and compliance all maintained

We are looking for:

• Qualified, experienced and motivated Mechanical tradespeople
• Relevant experience within plant operations / process control or maintenance experience in a manufacturing or heavy process industry
• Problem solving ability and long-term thinking
• People who can adapt to and embrace changeable environments

Mercury offers:

• A diverse workplace where your unique abilities and talents will be recognised and encouraged
• The opportunities, career paths and facilities associated with working for one of New Zealand’s largest energy providers
• Additional 5 days leave per annum (MyDays)
• $400 one off tax-free payment towards setting up your home office
• Discounted health insurance and free life and income insurance
• Excellent well-being programme including up to $100 annual check ups

Mercury is a learning organisation that is committed to providing you with opportunities to grow and develop that will benefit you now and in the future. Part of your role includes building your skillset and mindset through a variety of ways. We believe this creates an energised, innovative and agile work environment where you will feel valued.

At Mercury, we believe that having a team of individuals with different backgrounds, experience and capability working together makes us stronger and better as an organisation. We know that some candidates may only apply for a role if they meet all of the criteria. If you have a passion for creating Energy Freedom and want to join our team, we encourage you to apply for any role that matches your skills, capabilities and interests, even if you aren’t sure if you meet all of the criteria.

A full position description is available below. Applications close Tuesday, 7th February at 5:00pm. Please note that Mercury retains the right to bring a particularly strong candidate through to interview more quickly.