Wellington Water Limited

We manage the drinking water, wastewater, and storm water services from source to sea for our councils - Hutt, Porirua, Upper Hutt, Wellington City, South Wairarapa District, and Greater Wellington Regional Councils. We partner with the community, engineering consultants, and contractors on projects, water conservation, operations work, and asset planning.

The Programme Practice Team provides a full suite of support functions and delivery processes, policies, and procedures to ensure practice excellence for the capital programme.

Their specialist services are delivered internally to programmes and projects including Major Projects, Programme Delivery, Design Team, Network Engineering, Network Management Group and the Customer Operations Group. They also work across our supplier whanau to build consistency and quality of our project delivery.

Career opportunity

The purpose of the position of Programme Scheduler is to develop, manage and maintain the programme schedule within the Programme Management Team. Using your knowledge and experience you will provide effective programme management scheduling across the three-year rolling capital works programme.

You will proactively engage with, lead, coach and mentor project control staff to ensure high levels of performance and contribute to decisions regarding the direction and development of the Programme Practice Team.

Your credentials show

Your significant experience working in project controls; maintaining performance and escalating risks. That you identify and address deviations from plans and schedules. How you contribute to accurate forecasting and reporting. That you work in an open and collaborative way. How you influence and coach colleagues on new procedures. Your ability to actively seek and implement opportunities for continuous improvement.

Joining our purpose

It's an exciting time to join our organisation. We have some big aspirations to become an innovative centre of excellence for the management of three waters in the region.  Your personal and professional growth will be encouraged, and you will work alongside like-minded people who are passionate about their work and have a strong sense of purpose for the region and its councils.

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