Design Lead

Influence significant projects for Wellington and your community
- Lead the technical change at Wellington Water for the design standards in the treatment plant space
- Opportunity for both technical and people leadership

This is a full-time position, based in Petone close to the beach and shops.

The remuneration range for this role is $115,635 to $163,250 p.a (including KiwiSaver) depending on skills and experience.

**The opportunity**

This is a key role in the Design leadership team and the opportunity to build a standards programme. As the Design Lead - Facilities, you will provide people and technical leadership to Wellington Water's design teams. You will play a key role in supporting external facilities design projects as well as deliver projects with internal resources appropriate to your team's capabilities. With your strong team leadership skills, you will help staff strive for excellence and foster an organisational culture based on collaboration, innovation, learning and high performance.

**You will get to**:

- Provide a clear vision and direction for the design facilities team
- Influence in setting the future facilities design standards at Wellington Water
- Provide high quality technical advice to WW clients and internal teams
- Be a key connector between delivery and operations in the area of facilities projects
- Grow and develop capability in your area including tutoring younger engineers
- Build strong relationships and foster an environment of collaboration.

**About you**

**To be successful in this role you will bring**:

- A Bachelor of Engineering or Diploma in Engineering (preferably civil, process or mechanical engineering) CPEng highly desired
- Ideally 10+ years' post qualification experience in water infrastructure design and delivery engineering
- Strong technical knowledge across Three Waters facilities engineering design
- Ability to facilitate collaboration across the organisation and with panel suppliers
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills
- Self-motivation and desire for personal continuous learning.

**Benefits**

At Wellington Water, our purpose extends beyond delivering great water services for the region; we foster a thriving community, support a diverse workforce, and offer supportive development opportunities. We genuinely care about your safety and wellbeing.

**Our benefits include**:

- Flexible working arrangements including up to two days working from home
- Comprehensive wellbeing programme, including one paid wellbeing day annually
- Formal and informal professional development opportunities
- Five weeks annual leave accrual will be available following two years of continual service.

For a full list of our employee benefits: click here.

**About us**

Wellington Water is the professional water services provider across Greater Wellington and South Wairarapa. Our job is to provide safe and healthy drinking water, collect and treat wastewater, and ensure the stormwater network is well managed. We're a multi-council owned entity, tasked to manage the infrastructure and deliver water services to our communities.

The value of water (a precious taonga) sits at our organisational heart. Our people are passionate about providing waters services for our communities and environment which is reflective in our values; Tangata Tiaki, Whanau and Mana.

**Applications close: Friday, 27 June 2025.**

**How to apply**

To view a copy of the position description: click here.

Applicants will be required to undergo drug and alcohol testing prior to commencing employment with Wellington Water. You must also be legally entitled to work long-term in New Zealand.