RTS Planning & Engineering Practice Lead

Transpower New Zealand; Wellington; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

On-site 3 days per week

Job summary

Transpower New Zealand seeks a senior leader to guide our Real-Time Systems Planning & Engineering Practices team across Hamilton or Wellington. You will shape engineering practices, plans and assurance, building capability to deliver critical grid monitoring and operations.

You’ll influence across divisions, align priorities with stakeholders, and develop specialists while driving safe, reliable delivery of real-time systems and SCADA capabilities.

Qualifications

• Proven people leadership and line management, including coaching, performance management and developing high-performing technical teams.
• Experience leading operational, engineering, planning or technical support functions in a complex technology, operational or infrastructure environment.
• Experience developing and improving technical policies, standards, processes, governance frameworks and assurance activities.
• A track record in planning, prioritisation, resource management, scheduling and reporting, alongside leading change and improvement.
• Strong relationship management and influencing skills, with demonstrated experience working across organisational boundaries to align stakeholders and deliver shared outcomes.
• A recognised tertiary qualification in engineering (such as electrical or systems), information technology, computer science or another technical field.

Responsibilities

• Leading and developing technical specialists through clear expectations, coaching, knowledge sharing, workforce planning and succession planning.
• Managing business plans, budgets, work programmes and performance reporting, aligning resources and capacity with operational, maintenance and project priorities.
• Strengthening technical policies, standards, governance and assurance, alongside knowledge and document management, to support consistent engineering practice.
• Overseeing engineering environments, tools, and change and release management, working with OT, IT, engineering and project teams to align practices, governance and IT service management across RTS Group.
• Building trusted relationships with peers and stakeholders and influencing outcomes beyond your direct area of accountability.
• Leading change and continuous improvement to strengthen engineering quality, delivery, operational resilience and ways of working.

Skills

People leadership

Strategic planning

Engineering leadership

Change management

Cross-functional work

Communication

Safety leadership

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

SCADA

ITSM

ITIL

Telemetry

Real-time systems

Job description

Transpower New Zealand seeks a senior leader to guide our Real-Time Systems Planning & Engineering Practices team across Hamilton or Wellington. You will shape engineering practices, plans and assurance, building capability to deliver critical grid monitoring and operations.

You’ll influence across divisions, align priorities with stakeholders, and develop specialists while driving safe, reliable delivery of real-time systems and SCADA capabilities.