Customer Delivery Services (CDS) Project Manager (Contract)

Powerco; Tauranga; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Powerco is seeking an experienced Customer Delivery Services Project Manager on a 12-month contract in Tauranga, NZ. You will lead customer-initiated electricity projects end-to-end in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

In this customer-facing role you’ll manage multiple projects, coordinate with customers, contractors and internal teams, and ensure delivery on time, on budget and safely while maintaining strong compliance and reporting throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Experience in electricity distribution or infrastructure/construction is preferred.
• Strong planning, financial control, stakeholder engagement, risk, and reporting skills.
• Excellent communication and coordination with customers.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers, contractors, and internal teams to align expectations.
• Manage electricity projects from customer application to delivery, on time, on budget, and safely.
• Oversee scopes, risks, costs, schedules, and quality outcomes across customer-initiated work.
• Manage a portfolio of concurrent projects, balancing customer needs and changing priorities.
• Help shape new ways of working as Powerco transforms how we deliver for customers.
• Ensure compliance, reporting, and documentation at every step.

Skills

Multi-project management

Stakeholder engagement

Planning & budgeting

Communication & coordination

Job description

Customer Delivery Services (CDS) Project Manager (Contract)

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to provide contract project management services within our Customer Delivery Services team.

At Powerco, we’re investing in our electricity network and transforming the way we engage with and deliver for our customers. As a Customer Delivery Services Project Manager, you’ll take the lead on customer-initiated electricity projects, owning them end-to-end in a fast-evolving, high-volume environment where your project management expertise makes a real difference. This is a customer-facing role, requiring you to build strong relationships and communicate clearly and confidently with customers, contractors, and internal stakeholders. To succeed in this role, you’ll need proven project management skills and the ability to communicate clearly and confidently with a wide range of stakeholders.

Why this role?

This isn’t just project management as usual. You’ll need to be comfortable managing a high volume of customer connections (60+) and competing priorities, adaptable in how you engage with stakeholders, and confident in applying your PM skills to navigate technical and delivery challenges.

What you’ll be doing:

Work directly with customers, contractors, and internal teams to align expectations and ensure delivery in a customer-facing environment.

Manage electricity projects from customer application to delivery, on time, on budget, and safely.

Oversee scopes, risks, costs, schedules, and quality outcomes across customer-initiated work.

Manage a portfolio of concurrent projects, balancing customer needs, delivery commitments, and changing priorities.

Help shape new ways of working as Powerco transforms how we deliver for customers.

Have a strong handle on compliance, reporting, and documentation every step of the way.

You’ll bring:

Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

Proven project management experience, ideally in electricity distribution or a related infrastructure or construction field.

A solid foundation in project disciplines: planning, financial control, stakeholder engagement, risk, and reporting.

A practical, people-focused approach with strong communication and coordination skills, and the confidence to work directly with customers.

The ability to navigate change and ambiguity as we hone our processes and a drive to improve how things are done.

This is an initial 12-month contract based in Tauranga, with potential for extension.