Water Compliance Auditor

Develop your career across water infrastructure
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement
- Based in our Petone office close to the beach and shops

This is a full time position of 40 hours per week

The remuneration range for this role is $80,369 to 113,462 (including KiwiSaver) depending on skills and experience

**The opportunity**

Are you detail-oriented with a knack for asking the right questions? We're seeking a dedicated Water Compliance Auditor to join our team. In this key role, you will carry out assurance activities, including audits, to ensure that our systems, resources, and controls are effectively supporting our water management objectives. Your insights will help build confidence that our operations adhere to relevant standards and regulations, ultimately ensuring the safety, sustainability, and compliance of our water services.

**You will get to**:

- Undertake internal quality assurance audits and performance against relevant legislation
- Identify non-compliance issues and recommend improvements
- Undertake site assessments and inspections to audit our environmental compliance
- Work with operational managers to develop tools and processes to effectively monitor resource consent compliance
- Support source water risk management plans
- Build and maintain sustainable relationships with staff across Wellington Water to facilitate effective quality assurance programmes.

**About you**

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

- A bachelor's degree in environmental, engineering, natural sciences, environmental planning, or other relevant degrees
- Experience in auditing or compliance
- An understanding of the legislative and regulatory compliance environment
- Awareness of management systems like ISO 9001, ISO 17025, and ISO 14001
- Good communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders
- Strong organisational skills.

**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
- 5 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: Sunday, 19 October 2015**

**How to apply**

To view a copy of the position description: click here

Applicants for safety sensitive roles 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.