Resilience and Adaptation Manager

Work cross enterprise, develop resilience information and modelling
- Implement the Transpower Climate Adaptation Plan across the business
- Lead a small team supporting risk-based decision making for grid resilience
- Lead critical infrastructure resilience and climate change adaptation. Use data and modelling to drive new approaches for the National Grid _

Our core purpose is to empower the energy future for New Zealand - a future that delivers a net-zero carbon economy and a reliable and secure electricity system.

As the owner and operator of New Zealand's electricity transmission grid, we provide a critical service, including seeking to understand how the grid can deliver the cost-effective level of service expected of customers, while accommodating the growing demand for renewable electricity through electrification of industry and transport.

**About the team**

Transpower's Grid Development division works to identify grid needs for the next 30 years. We undertake critical activities to inform investments that ensure the grid is safe, reliable and resilient, and that these investments are integrated with wider system plans.

Our Strategy Performance and Risk group develop our asset management system, including our grid strategies, risk, and resilience information. The team also reports on grid performance, manages asset and system information, and models asset health and criticality.

**The opportunity**

In this new role you'll lead the Resilience and Adaptation team of four in Wellington, and the evolution of risk and resilience information and modelling whilst delivering frameworks that inform and support investment decisions and funding submissions.

You'll improve Transpower's understanding of its vulnerability to Major Hazard events and the impacts of those events and collaboratively work with the researchers and shared understandings.

Annually you'll provide climate related and non-climate related reporting of risk and implement the Transpower adaptation plan.

Ultimately, you'll progress your career and grow as an Asset and Risk Management professional through broadening and deepening your understanding of infrastructure resilience, climate adaptation, and resilience modelling for over $5b of assets that are critical infrastructure for Aotearoa.

**What will you bring?**

You'll utilise your people leadership and influencing skills in this interesting emerging field, along with your understanding/experience in infrastructure resilience, and risk and asset management

Outstanding system thinking and verbal and written communication skills underpinned by a relevant tertiary qualification will enable you to assimilate the Transpower context quickly.

**To be shortlisted your CV, cover letter and career to date will demonstrate**:

- Team leadership in a technical capacity, balancing multiple priorities and communicating effectively with Senior Managers and the Executive team.
- Demonstrated ability to lead change and build capability through coaching and mentoring.
- Experience in developing and improving asset and risk management processes.
- Skill in using, or supporting teams that use platforms such as PowerBI, Python, and other analytics and data management software.
- Outstanding ability to collaborate and influence both internally and with special interest groups and a variety of regulatory authorities.

**Join us at Transpower**

Aotearoa, New Zealand is powered by the people who work here. Every home, every marae, every electric vehicle, every hospital relies on the electricity we manage and deliver. This is your opportunity to join us on a mission that affects all New Zealanders, the planet, and the economy.

With over 28 nationalities, our people provide diverse perspectives, knowledge, and deep and varied experience which they love to share and which we celebrate. We work in the office or on-site for a minimum of three days each week, which helps us build and maintain relationships, support learning, deliver outcomes, and sustain our culture. This approach also offers staff the flexibility they need for both work and personal commitments, with adaptable daily start and finish times.

We prioritise wellbeing with a range of employee health and wellness benefits - check them out here.

**Next steps**

**Role closes Monday March 17th 2025**

**_ Existing eligibility to work in New Zealand is required._