Water Treatment Technician – Mechanical

at  Tauranga City Council

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Tō Tātou Kaunihera | About Tauranga City Council
Tauranga City Council is one of Tauranga’s largest employers, and we are always looking to attract great talent to join our driven, passionate, and community-focused team.
We always strive to ensure that you feel valued and supported in the workplace.
To highlight that our people are our greatest asset, we offer a wide range of benefits that include 5 weeks annual leave and career development opportunities.
Te Tūranga | About the role
We are looking for a Water Treatment Technician (Mechanical).
As a Water Treatment Technician (Mechanical), you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring the continuous delivery of clean and safe water to our community. Working with a team of dedicated professionals, your responsibilities go beyond routine tasks to actively shape the future of water treatment in our region.
The role offers unique attractions, including a built-in overtime structure through a 1-in-5 roster, providing an opportunity to earn overtime, and a competency pay model that recognises and rewards your expertise.
Contributing directly to community well-being, you play a key part in upholding a fundamental aspect of public health by ensuring the continual delivery of clean and safe water. Joining our collaborative team culture, you’ll experience an environment that values collaboration, effective communication, and mutual support, fostering both personal and professional growth.
This role is a mix of monitoring, operations, and compliance. There is also a hands-on component where you will work on some complex pieces of mechanical equipment.
This is a permanent full-time role, working 40 hours per week between 7:30am and 4:00pm at Oropi Water Treatment Plant. You will work in the Bay of Plenty region only. Travel within the region may be required.
The minimum remuneration for this role is $76,169 pa, and the maximum remuneration for this role is $84,632 pa.

After an initial training period, you will be required to be on call 1 week in every 5 weeks. The on call roster runs 24 hours, 7 days a week from Monday to Monday. If you are called in to work you will be paid in addition to your base-rate above - a minimum of 2 hours at 150% of your ordinary hourly rate.

• This role will need to carry out effective Health and Safety (H&S) planning and Implementation. This will include ensuring that effective H&S risk management isundertaken for all aspects of the daily operation of the treatment plants and associated systems (rom assessment of risk through to the implantation of controls); that reasonable care is taken for your own H&S including but not limited to your work, PPE, training and professional development; that you communicate with, co-ordinateand proactively manage the H&S of contractors onsite; that you actively engage in developing HS systems and risk assessments and implementation of risk controls.
• You will also carry out industry leading Water Safety Planning and Implementation. This will include having a detailed understanding of risk management and how to undertake risk assessments; operating the Water Supply in line with the Water Safety Plan and industry best practice; operating the Water Supply System while actively manging risks in Source Water, Treatment, Process, Compliance, Reticulation, Public health; that you actively engage in the development of, and maintenance of the Water Safety Plan.
• The role will also require you to ensure the effective operation of the Water Supply System. This means that quality objectives are met; ISO9001 Quality Management System is implemented and engaged with; continuity of supply is maintained; proactive and reactive maintenance is undertaken; (when on-call) to maintain supply and maintain plant compliance within the quality objectives.
• You will strive for operational efficiency and continual improvement. This means that you will ensure that the Water Treatment System is operated in a manner that is efficient; that efficiency is achieved while maintaining quality objectives; that you actively peruse continuous improvement; that you assist in the management of projects as a site representative for H&S and plant interface (systems are operated with resilience and operational continuity); that stock, spares, supplies and consumables are maintained at a level to ensure continuity of supply; that Water Treatment systems are operated in a way that ensures readiness to internal or external events.
• You will also ensure that professional behaviours are maintained and relationships are fostered both internally and externally to the team. This is to ensure that miscommunication is minimised.

Ngā Pukenga | What you’ll need to succeed

To succeed in this role, you’ll bring.

• Must live or be willing to move to an area within a 30-minute response time of the water treatment plants (Oropi)
• Proven experience in operations / maintenance of membrane technologies, other relevant complex processes
• Current Full Drivers Licence
• At least 3 years’ experience containing the following:
• Water Treatment or chemical operations experience;
• Knowledge of Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001 standards);
• Plant process controller experience;
• Training others in complex processes;
• Issuing and writing permits to work for multi-stage processes;
• Utilising SCADA systems.

Te Tukanga | How to apply
If you want to be part of an energetic, fun, and supportive team, then we’d love to hear from you. For more information, please contact Rodney Clark at Rodney.clark@tauranga.govt.nz

Please note we will not be accepting applications via email. If you wish to apply, please click ‘Apply’ at the bottom of this page and follow the link.

• Our selection process may include behavioural interview(s), psychometric and ability assessments, reference checks, and pre-employment screening.
• Tauranga City Council will not accept applications or contact from any placement service, temporary staffing agency, or professional recruiter for this vacancy. If/where Tauranga City Council requires the support of a recruitment agency, we will seek this support from our network of agencies. We ask that you please do not contact Tauranga City Council or any of its employees regarding vacancies. Tauranga City Council will not be responsible for, and will not pay, any commissions, fees or other payments related to such unsolicited contact.

• Must live or be willing to move to an area within a 30-minute response time of the water treatment plants (Oropi)
• Proven experience in operations / maintenance of membrane technologies, other relevant complex processes
• Current Full Drivers Licence
• At least 3 years’ experience containing the following:
• Water Treatment or chemical operations experience;
• Knowledge of Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001 standards);
• Plant process controller experience;
• Training others in complex processes;
• Issuing and writing permits to work for multi-stage processes;
• Utilising SCADA systems