Team Leader Water Loss Management

Join us and lead a dynamic team to make a significant impact on water conservation by utilising your engineering and analytic initiatives.
- Lead work that is a key priority within our community
- Strategic role utilising an analytical mindset
- Petone based location with work from home days

This is a full-time position with a remuneration range midpoint of $125,755 (including KiwiSaver), starting remuneration will depend on skills and experience.

**The opportunity**

As the Water Loss Lead, you will oversee a small team that proactively investigates, identifies, and resolves water loss within our network in the wider Wellington region. This will require you to provide and create performance and progress reporting that will identify opportunities for improvement and new initiatives that improve water retention in our network, and address engineering and maintenance challenges.

**Additionally, you will**:

- develop and implement annual leakage control programs for the water network and advise/schedule on required interventions
- drive water loss levels down through managing, monitoring, and delivering programs on District Meter Areas to ensure the right interventions are delivered
- ensure prioritisation frameworks and initiatives are in place to improve the speed and quality of our leak repairs. You will do this by ensuring they are implemented, and our delivery team's work is appropriately scheduled, resourced, and audited to meet this outcome
- develop strategies for customer leaks on private property, rural restrictor checks and hydrant takes through to delivery
- track and report water loss data to track our programmes, and provide insights to support our problem-solving through investigations and interventions, to ensure we are meeting business strategic outcomes and statutory measures
- ensure work is delivered within allocated budgets and provide monthly forecasting.

**About you**

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

- An Engineering qualification or relative comparable qualification relating to Water and a full NZ class 1 driver's license
- Experience leading and mentoring others
- Extensive technical and practical experience in public non-revenue water loss management (revenue is also beneficial)
- Strong communication and ability to influence operational change
- High degree of computer literacy, particularly in Microsoft Office, along with experience in using technologies such as Maximo, SAP or similar asset management systems is desirable

**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 the following**:

- 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: Thursday, 6 February 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.