Senior Delivery Lead - Control Systems

He kōrero mō mātou | About Watercare

Ki te ora te wai, ka ora te whenua, ka ora te tangata When the water is healthy, the land and the people are healthy

Now is an exciting time to join Watercare, we're planning to spend $14 billion over the next 10 years to ensure we can continue to support our growing city in a climate-resilient way. When you average that out, that's an investment of $3.8 million every day!

He whakamārama mō te tūranga mahi | About the role

We're on the lookout for a Senior Delivery Lead to join our Digital delivery team at Watercare. This role sits in our Operational Technology portfolio, leading a wide variety of control systems, digital infrastructure, network communications and digital platform projects supporting our wider OT environment.

You’ll be working with the one of the largest implementations of Distributed Control Systems (Emersons DeltaV) in New Zealand, alongside other critical systems and platforms such as Kingfisher RTUs, AVEVA System Platform, HyperV and Nozomi, as well as utilising innovative technologies to overcome geographical and connectivity challenges across our fibre and radio networks. You are comfortable with formal project management, building excellent supplier relationships and working with multiple stakeholders, the Senior Delivery Lead will bring structure and leadership, prudent financial management, and timely and accurate reporting to enable effective management of assigned Watercare projects.

• Take full responsibility and own project delivery end to end, from definition, through business case, to delivery and embedding change
• Articulate business value and drive the delivery of business outcomes, not just deliver and forget
• Ensures that effective project control, change control, risk management and quality management processes are maintained.
• Strong H&S focus
• Effectively manage vendor delivery performance and value for money.
• Drive effective change management
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across digital and operations
• Take ownership of team performance
• Support the wider delivery team in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of digital delivery

Ngā pūkenga e rapu nei mātou | About you

• Tertiary level qualification in an appropriate discipline
• Project Management qualification (e.g. Prince2, PMP)
• 3 years' experience leading cross functional teams across large projects or programme delivery
• Experience leading large, high profile projects with budgets > $3M.
• Excellent leadership skills, communicating clear strategy and purpose.
• Experience of working in fast paced digital environments, delivering at pace.
• A demonstrable track record of enabling continuous improvement.
• Experience working in high criticality operating environments
• Strong facilitation skills, presenting technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently; strong organization skills; ability to plan forward and manage deadlines.
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent commercial awareness with a good sense of value for money.

Ngā hua mōu | What's in it for you

We offer a competitive salary and staff benefits package including: • Training and development opportunities • Life and income protection insurance plans • Generous parental leave • Employee discounts at a range of large retailers

Me pēhea te tono mai | How to Apply

Come and join our team! If you are looking for an exciting career opportunity with a fantastic team then please apply online today - careers.watercare.co.nz.