Wellington Water Limited Looking for at Full Time

• Opportunity to shape the Wellbeing Programme
• Ongoing training and development
• Hybrid and flexible working

This is a full-time permanent position (40 hours per week) based in Petone, Wellington.

The remuneration range for this role is $67,382 to $95,128 (including KiwiSaver) depending on skills and experience.

The opportunity

You will get to provide proactive support to enhance and implement Wellington Water’s health and safety systems and ways of working and provide wellbeing support and guidance.

We strongly believe in applying our ‘people first’ vision to everything we do.

You will get to:

• review and implement new processes
• lead our injury management programme to support our people to be at work
• evaluate our health, safety, and wellbeing performance to create interventions that enhance our culture and health, safety, and wellbeing practices
• maintain an overview of the incident management system and process the incident reports
• support the delivery of the wellbeing strategy
• participate in our mental health critical risk project and support its outcomes.

About you

To be successful in this role you will bring:

• a health and safety focused qualification (Level 3 and above) or relevant experience (people, safety, or wellbeing) to demonstrate an equivalent level of skill and knowledge preferred
• three or more years experience in a health safety/wellbeing role
• experience with health and safety systems and frameworks, including the reporting and monitoring functions
• great interpersonal skills
• a results driven focus and be self-motivated with an ability to get things done
• a full, clean New Zealand driver’s licence.

About us

Wellington Water is the Wellington region’s professional water services provider. We are 100 per cent council owned and funded by Wellington City, Hutt City, Porirua City, and Upper Hutt City councils, Greater Wellington Regional Council and South Wairarapa District Council. 

Our councils own the water infrastructure in the region, and they task us to manage the infrastructure and deliver water services to their communities. 

Our job is to provide safe and healthy drinking water, collect and treat wastewater, and ensure the stormwater network is well managed. We do this on behalf of our council owners.  

The value of water (a precious taonga) sits at our organisational heart. Every day our people come to work and strive to deliver services and manage infrastructure in a way that provides the best outcomes for our communities and our environment. 

People work at Wellington Water because they want to make a difference. That means you will be helping to look after our most precious assets: water, human health and welfare, and the environment so our communities can prosper.

Why join us

It is an exciting time to be working in the water sector, not only are you at the forefront of looking after our most precious assets: water, human health and welfare and the environment, but proposed changes for the sector is increasing awareness around the importance of managing the three waters and creating new opportunities. Your personal and professional growth will be encouraged, and you will work alongside likeminded people who are passionate about their work and have a strong sense of purpose. If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!

To view our benefits please copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser’s address bar: https://careers.wellingtonwater.co.nz/

Applications close at 5pm on Thursday, 25 May 2023.

How to apply

To view a copy of the position description please copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser’s address bar: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ShHstmknpFpN_2shlfvVuBCkcBlzwY0x/view?usp=share_link

To apply for the role, click on the ‘apply’ button or visit the Wellington Water careers site.

To apply for this role you must hold the right to work in New Zealand.

For further information, email: [email protected] [link removed]

Applicants will be required to undergo drug and alcohol testing prior to commencing employment with Wellington Water. You must also be legally entitled to work long-term in New Zealand.