Road Maintenance Foreman

5 months ago

Queenstown, New Zealand Downer Group Full time

**Why you will enjoy working here | Ko te take ka parekareka e koe ki te mahi ki kōnei**

Downer is committed to delivering excellence by ensuring our people have the environment and the means to be successful. We offer:

- Free access to Marram health care benefits and discounted holiday homes
- All the tools of trade you need to do your job
- Work ute including use to and from home
- Progression and development programs on offer including our inspiring leader’s programme for top performers

Have a look at our other great benefits here

**The Opportunity **| **Te **kōwhiringa**

Join our Transport and Infrastructure business, as a **Road Maintenance Foreperson**

This role supports our Queenstown team on maintenance initiatives and urgent repair work across the network. You will be working on a unique and stunning alpine network in the areas of Queenstown and Wanaka, conducting routine and emergency maintenance to ensure the upkeep of infrastructure, providing safety to the public.

As one of the custodians of the Queenstown roading network, you will play an instrumental part in your crews’ success by motivating and supporting the team to provide exceptional maintenance solutions across the network. You will also:

- Be responsible to ensure all work is completed to the satisfaction of our customers
- Ensure that all Zero Harm and production targets are met
- Provide clear records and reports on all activities undertaken by Downer staff and subcontractors
- Offer coaching and training to your crew to grow their capabilities

The day-to-day tasks you and your crew will carry out include:

- Minor traffic management site setup
- Excavator works including drainage, water channel clearing
- Guardrail repairs
- Minor structure repairs including bridges and retaining walls
- Responding to customer requests
- Attending to safety or significant faults and providing short and long term repairs
- Clearing obstructions from carriageway, footpaths and drainage systems
- Cleaning and maintaining culvert inlets and outlets as well as roadside furniture
- Capture QA records and accurate asset information as required After hours emergency response

Based from Frankton Queenstown, this is a permanent, full-time position, primarily working Monday - Friday however flexibility to pick up occasional weekend work, rostered winter maintenance work, and on-call shifts may be required.

**Important Skills | Nga pūkenga matua**
To be successful in this challenging yet rewarding role, you will have excellent communication skills and solid customer and commercial awareness on site. You will be confident to plan and structure the workload but also capable to troubleshoot on the fly.

We’d also value the following skills and attributes:

- Leadership experience in the civil industry, preferably road maintenance experience
- Knowledge of pavement and drainage faults and treatments
- You’ll be an effective communicator to drive your crew, report to supervisors and liaise with the general public
- You’ll have your Full NZ Class 2 Drivers License
- Experience in plant operation including excavator, loader and trucks
- Ideally you will have your Level 1 STMS license
- Show good initiative and be confident in decision making and problem solving
- Solid attitude to get stuck into any task at hand
- The flexibility to work late nights and weekends is also required.

**Our Organisation | Ko wai mātou**

Want to know more about what it is like to work at Downer? Then head to our People Site here

We are committed to a safe working environment for everyone - all successful applicants will be required to undertake a pre-employment drug test, medical and a Ministry of Justice check prior to starting employment. If you need support with this requirement, please talk to our team.

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