Senior Advisor Resource Management and Environment

1 month ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

Opportunity to grow and further develop your consenting and RMA work experience. Join a dynamic team passionate about the environment and what they do
- Be involved in significant water infrastructure projects
- Support the company's consenting activities
- Based in our Petone office close to the beach and shops

This is a full-time position of 40 hours per week.

The remuneration range for this role is $106,892 to $150,906. $125,755 is the 100% mark (including KiwiSaver) depending on skills and experience.

**The opportunity**

You will be very familiar with obtaining resource consents and will be outcomes focused. You will support the Head of RMA and Environment to lead the company's resource management consenting program and provide trusted technical advice to all teams in the company on compliance, consenting issues and environmental policy. This is not a policy role.

**You will get to**:

- Undertake the planning for new consents and renewing of consents
- Obtain consents for infrastructure projects
- Support the business units with their resource consenting management
- Develop consenting processes
- Build and maintain strong relationships both internal and external.

**About you**

**To be successful in this role you will bring the following**:

- A tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline (e.g. resource management, compliance/monitoring /enforcement (CME) infrastructure management, environmental and/or infrastructure, engineering, planning, project management)
- Objectivity and sound judgement
- Relationship management skills.

**Benefits**

At Wellington Water, our purpose extends beyond delivering great water services for the region; we foster a thriving community, support a diverse workforce, and offer supportive development opportunities. We genuinely care about your safety and wellbeing.

**Our benefits include the following**:

- Flexible working arrangements including up to two days working from home
- Comprehensive wellbeing programme, including one paid wellbeing day annually
- Formal and informal professional development opportunities
- Five weeks annual leave accrual will be available following two years of continual service.

For a full list of our employee benefits click here

**About us**

Wellington Water is the professional water services provider across Greater Wellington and South Wairarapa. Our job is to provide safe and healthy drinking water, collect and treat wastewater, and ensure the stormwater network is well managed. We're a multi-council owned entity, tasked to manage the infrastructure and deliver water services to our communities.

The value of water (a precious taonga) sits at our organisational heart. Our people are passionate about providing waters services for our communities and environment which is reflective in our values; Tangata Tiaki, Whānau and Mana.

**Applications close on Wednesday, 4 December 2024.**

**How to apply**

To view a copy of the position description: click here

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.



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