Resilience and Adaptation Lead

4 days ago


Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Transpower New Zealand Limited (Tpnz) Full time

About the Role

This position involves leading a small team in developing resilience information and modelling to support risk-based decision making across Transpower's Grid business.

The successful candidate will have experience in infrastructure resilience, climate adaptation, and risk management. They will utilise their people leadership and influencing skills to drive change and build capability within the organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and implement the Transpower Climate Adaptation Plan across the business.
  • Lead a team of four in Wellington to further develop grid risk and resilience datasets and applications.
  • Support and enable risk-based decisions to be made across the Grid business.
  • Collaborate with researchers to improve Transpower's understanding of its vulnerability to Major Hazard events.
  • Provide climate-related and non-climate-related reporting of risk annually.

What You'll Bring:

  • A relevant tertiary qualification in a field such as engineering, science, or environmental studies.
  • Experience in team leadership, change management, and asset and risk management.
  • Outstanding system thinking, verbal and written communication skills, and ability to assimilate the Transpower context quickly.


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