Team Lead

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**Team Lead - Technical Assurance**

**New Plymouth, Tauranga, Palmerston North or Wellington**

Do you have a passion for ensuring operational quality, compliance, and safety in a critical infrastructure environment? If so, we have an opportunity for you to lead a team in providing assurance services contributing to the operational quality and reliability of Powerco assets.

**About us**

Our purpose is to connect communities. It’s at the heart of everything we do as we serve our customers now and into the future. At Powerco, we’re passionate about doing mahi that keeps over 1.1 million customers connected and enables energy choices as we support Aotearoa on the journey to a low-carbon future.

Ngā Tikanga - Our Way, is what guides us to achieve our purpose and ensures we’re better together, work smarter, proud to be here, and future focused in how we work together with each other, our communities, and industry stakeholders.

**About the role**

As the Team Lead - Technical Assurance, you will play a role in developing and implementing an assurance program to ensure the safety and reliability of our network. Your responsibilities will include:

- ** Strategic Planning**: Develop a yearly tactical plan for operational assurance, covering a range of assurance activities to enhance safety and reliability across our assets.
- ** Technical Leadership**: Lead and manage a team of operational assurance auditors, leveraging your technical expertise to ensure the delivery of high-quality audits, reviews, and reports.
- ** Program Development**: Develop and execute an assurance program for the wider business, covering various aspects of operational quality and compliance, with a focus on engineering principles and practices.
- ** Stakeholder Collaboration**: Collaborate and communicate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment and coordination of assurance activities, leveraging your engineering background to facilitate technical discussions.
- ** Policy Development**: Develop and implement operational assurance standards, policies, and procedures, as well as assurance metrics and indicators, to drive consistency and effectiveness in assurance activities.
- ** Audits and Assessments**: Perform assurance audits and assessments, utilizing your engineering knowledge to identify and resolve operational issues and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
- ** Data Analysis and Reporting**: Design and develop operational assurance solutions, such as dashboards, scorecards, and reports, using your technical skills to interpret data and provide actionable insights.
- ** Training and Development**: Provide training, coaching, and guidance to team members, sharing your technical knowledge and promoting best practices in operational assurance.
- ** Continuous Improvement**: Identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation in the assurance program, using your engineering expertise to drive efficiency and effectiveness.

**It would ideal if you have**:

- Extensive experience in operational assurance, quality management, or related fields, preferably within the energy or utilities sector.
- Bachelors degree in Quality, Risk Management, Business Administration or a related field.
- Proven track record in stakeholder engagement and collaboration, with the ability to build effective partnerships across diverse teams.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, coupled with a strategic mindset and a commitment to continuous improvement.
- Knowledge of relevant regulatory frameworks and industry standards related to operational quality, safety, and environmental assurance.

**Applications close: Sunday 6 October 2024