Serviceperson, Drainage

5 months ago

Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

The opportunity
It's an important job maintaining our most precious assets - water, health, and the environment - and here's your chance to be involved.
You will assist with the day-to-day operation of the drainage network, ensuring a continual drainage service with mínimal interruptions.
You will work on both the wastewater and stormwater networks to:

- ensure a free-flowing wastewater and stormwater piped network
- minimise sewage overflow and pipeline infiltration
- install new connections, complete network repairs, and clear blockages
- inspect and provide routine maintenance of problem areas within the drainage system
- construct and adjust manholes and pipelines.

What's in it for you?
- A career in the water industry We offer ongoing training, development, and support to gain industry recognised qualifications/certifications
- Job security and career progression
- Company benefits
- The ability for extra earning through overtime work
- A commitment to your health, safety, and wellbeing
- A busy, challenging, and fulfilling job making an impact for generations to come

About you
You will ideally hold experience working independently on a range of basic repairs across the drainage network.

**You'll also have**:

- experience operating small plant and machinery
- the ability to use technology (i.e. ipad or tablet) to record information
- a full, clean driver's licence (minimum class one)
- an understanding and commitment to health and safety in the workplace
- a reliable, hard-working attitude.

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. 
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