Team Coordinator

Are you someone who keeps team admin work moving and progressing smoothly? - Bring your problem-solving, communication, and relationship management skills - Ensure efficient inbox management, work plan coordination, and administration - Varied role supporting a busy team. Be part of delivering a major capital works programme to enable a more sustainable energy future_ Transpower is a regulated State-Owned Enterprise, that owns and operates New Zealand's National Grid - the high voltage transmission network connecting areas of generation with towns and cities across New Zealand. 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. **About the team** Our Cost Estimation Team in Grid Development delivers an infrastructure project estimation service to support the investigation and delivery of Transmission Grid capital projects and volumetric maintenance works. Cost Estimation is the process of forecasting the financial and other resources needed to complete a project within a defined scope. This includes maintenance of the cost estimation data base and estimation processes ensuring project estimation accuracy. The team supports over 50 project managers and engineers nationally through the preparation, development, and review of estimates and analysis of tenders and project outturn costs. The team provides historic estimation accuracy information to support reporting requirements to the Commerce Commission. **About the opportunity** When you join us, you'll support our Cost Engineering Manager and our Systems Team Leader, and the collaborative wider estimation team. You will enjoy varied work, including: - Project and programme cost estimation resource requisition coordination and reporting (in excel, Power BI, and using SharePoint planner functionality). - Single item (building block) review coordination and reporting. Our current set of building block rates are built up to be an average of "like for like" replacements, for example, swapping an old circuit breaker for a new one. - Quantity Surveyor contractor and supplier relationship management. - Continuous improvement initiatives, including a system replacement project. You will engage with various internal and external stakeholders to ensure the cost estimation services help make sure Transpower has accurate cost estimations for all pricing of capital works by ensuring a consistent and robust cost estimation process is in place. You'll enjoy ongoing learning and career development and get a real sense of what it takes to deliver infrastructure projects at the heart of the electricity industry. You'll learn how the cost estimation team contributes to the management over $5B of nationally critical assets. **What will you bring?** Proactivity, pace, and previous experience working in a project or programme coordinator role You'll be known as highly organised, flexible, and calm under pressure. **Your CV and cover letter will demonstrate**: - Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail. - Experience with contract or project administration systems. - Proven ability in relationship/stakeholder and expectation management. - An ability to see opportunities for process improvement that results in better team delivery/business outcomes. - Demonstrated experience using the Microsoft Office suite, including MS Project. While not essential - tertiary or project management qualifications/experience and experience with Project Server and SharePoint workface tools are highly regarded. **Join us at Transpower** Aotearoa 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, every day and long into the future. 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 employee wellbeing with a range of health and wellness benefits - check them out here. **Next Steps** **Role closes Monday 18th November 2024.** Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews will commence prior to the close date, with reasonable accommodation to suit your personal circumstances, including preferred start date in 2025. Existing eligibility to work in New Zealand is required. **Job Details**: - Position Description Cost Estimation Coordinator_PD (November 2024).pdf- Reference # 32699- Posted on 08 No