Machine Operator

Enjoy doing work delivering a large volume of projects that are essential to the community
- Join a high-performing and growing crew where you can make your stamp
- Create your own great work culture in a steadily growing business that builds new crews as new projects come
- Join a stable, new, and exciting contract and make a difference in daily lives
- Engage in hands-on work with a supportive management
- Work with Ventia as an Excavator/ Machine Operator for our Construction team based in West Auckland_

**What’s in it for me?**
- Ventia takes our people’s careers seriously, helping them to learn and grow.
- There’s nothing more important to us than keeping our people and the public safe.
- We look after each other and foster our people’s well-being.
- Competitive hourly rate with overtime pay
- Experience career progression and development through training opportunities
- Stable, full-time, permanent employment
- Stable, ongoing work that is classed as essential
- Supportive team environment with a “Safe for life” culture

Enjoy a role with a lot of variety and roles where you can experience career progression. For good performers, you may enjoy the path of becoming a foreman or running your own construction crew or transition into supervisory roles.

**About the Role**
In this role, you will be key to helping make our roads safe. This will be a full-time permanent role with a minimum of 40 hours a week. You will be working with the crew operating the machines to support Ventia’s Auckland Transport Contract out West. This can include works on kerb & channel and cesspits, intersections, footpaths, and other construction duties required for the project.

**About You**
To be successful in this role, you will be motivated, and willing to work hard to ensure your own personal growth and the development of the team. For someone with a great work attitude, there are lots of opportunities to move up the ranks as you grow and learn constantly within our large Transport NZ business
- Current full NZ Driver's License
- WTR endorsements (Wheels Tracks Rollers), Class 2 preferred
- Proven plant operating experience in road maintenance or civil construction
- Be physically fit and enjoy working outdoors
- Able to work unsupervised but also operate as a team member
- Strong commitment to all Health and Safety practices
- Demonstrated commitment to safety

There is a strong focus on meeting client expectations and providing high levels of customer service. You will need to have good communication skills, and a desire to go the extra mile.