Manager Testing and Standards

Date: 18-Nov-2021

**Location**:
Auckland, NZ, 1010

**Discover a career with purpose at MBIE**:

- **Operate as part of a newly established leadership team with a focus on service delivery and improvement**:

- **Lead an operational team responsible for providing laboratory and technical services that protect consumers and support business**:

- **Salary - $132,417 - $160,472**

**Tēnei tūranga -**:
**About the role**:
Trading Standards is an operational team with national regulatory responsibility for administering and enforcing the systems that protect consumers and provide a ‘level playing field’ for business.

We’re currently looking for a **Manager - Testing and Standards** who will lead the team responsible for delivery of technical services that support the national trade measurement system and the delivery of the programme that monitors and regulates fuel quality. The work of this team includes administration of fuel sample collection, analysis of fuel test results, verification of mass, volume and length physical standards and the type or pattern approval of weighing and measuring equipment used for trade. You will, with support from specialist technical experts focus on people leadership and the effective delivery of critical services with a strong emphasis on health and safety and quality system improvement.

**Nga pukenga me nga wheako e hiahiatia ana -**:
**Skills and experience required**:

- Strategic people and operational management experience, including experience in building teams with strong identity and engagement
- Strong operations or system management experience including experience working with health and safety and quality management systems
- The ability to work in a demanding and complex environment within statutory timeframes
- Demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining an environment focused on continuous improvement to enhance organisational performance and keeping people safe.

**Ētahi kōrero mō MBIE -**:
**About MBIE**:
MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.

We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.

People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.
- Mahi Tahi - Better Together
- Maia - Bold and brave
- Pae Kahurangi - Build our Future
- Pono Me Te Tika - Own It

Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity - Hīkina Whakatutuki - which broadly means ‘lifting to make successful'.

MBIE recognises the partnership founded under Te Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand. We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabling environment for iwi to leverage these opportunities.

E mōhio ana a Hīkina Whakatutuki i puea ake te kōtuinga iwaenganui i a ngāi Māori me te Karauna i Te Tiriti o Waitangi, ā, kei te whai ia ki te whakaū ake i Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Mā te whai kiko o ngā kōtuinga ahungaroa o ngāiwi, o ngāi Māori, me ētahi atu rōpū Māori ki te Karauna, katutuki tēnei. He āhuatanga nui tēnei e āhei ai ngā mahi whanaketanga ā-ohanga, ā-pāpori hoki ki a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui. E whai tonu ana mātou ki te kōtui atu ki ngā iwi mō te rapu huarahi hou ki te whakaara i ngā kaupapakua roa nei e tāmi ana i a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui, ā, e whai ana hoki ki te tautohu i ngā āheinga kōkiritanga māngā iwi, me te tautoko i ngā iwi kia whai mana ake ai ēneiāheinga.

**Me pēhea te tono -**:
**How to apply**:
**Applications close on Sunday 20 March.**

**All employees are required to comply with MBIE’s vaccination policy which seeks to protect the wellbeing, health and safety of our people, their whānau and the community. You are required to hold a valid vaccination pass to be employed at MBIE.**

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