Utilities Manager

Chorus NZ Limited; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Chorus Care package

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Chorus NZ Limited in Auckland seeks a fixed-term Utilities Manager to lead cost-optimisation and governance of electricity, fuel and water services across a national infrastructure portfolio.

You will optimise pricing, validate charges, and drive data integrity while engaging with finance, property, operations and suppliers. Hybrid work is supported; a practical, commercial mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in building services, facilities, or utilities management.
• Ability to interpret electricity pricing and tariff structures.
• Strong analytical skills to translate data into actions.
• Experience delivering mult-site projects with governance reporting.
• Financial acumen for business cases and budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Manage electricity, fuel and water services across multiple sites.
• Improve consumption, ICP data and billing accuracy.
• Develop governance, reporting and delivery practices for utilities.
• Identify tariff changes, fuse size optimisation and load management opportunities.

Skills

Utilities management

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Contract management

Cost optimization

Electrical pricing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Billing software

Tariff analysis tools

Job description

Nau mai, haere mai.We’re Chorus. You may have already heard about us and know we’re the team empowering the digital future of Aotearoa with our ultra-fast fibre. We’re a talented bunch who are passionate about our purpose: Unleashing potential through connectivity.Enabling better futures for Aotearoa.

Te Wāhi | Where: Auckland

Te Pūtake | Why we’re hiring

Chorus is building a more disciplined, data-led approach to managing utility services across our national network and property portfolio. This fixed term role will help establish and deliver a national programme focused on improving utility data, strengthening supplier and contract management, reducing avoidable electricity lines charges, and supporting more efficient, sustainable operation of our sites.

Are you ready to take ownership of utility services across a large, national infrastructure portfolio? Chorus is seeking a technically capable and commercially minded Utilities Manager for a fixed term role to manage electricity, fuel and water services, with a particular focus on electricity cost optimisation and the establishment of robust utilities governance, reporting and delivery practices.

In this role, you will ensure Chorus is paying for the right services at the right cost by improving consumption, ICP and billing data, verifying utility charges, supporting budgets and variance analysis, and maintaining clear records of decisions, assumptions and site actions. Electricity will be a key focus, including helping to identify and progress opportunities such as tariff and plan changes, fuse size optimisation, load management, smart metering, alternative generation and other lines company-specific efficiencies.

You’ll work closely with Property Operations, Finance, Network Technology, Field Delivery, Sustainability, Infrastructure, suppliers and lines companies to move opportunities from analysis through to delivery. Strong stakeholder engagement, practical problem solving and disciplined programme coordination will be critical as you manage issues, support supplier discussions, clarify pricing, and ensure benefits are visible to the business.

As Chorus’ utilities subject matter lead, you will help resolve metering and billing issues, manage operational relationships with utility providers, and provide regular reporting on opportunity pipeline, delivery status, risks, issues and decisions required.

This is a great opportunity to make a tangible commercial and operational impact by creating a repeatable utilities optimisation model, strengthening compliance, supporting emissions reduction and ensuring optimisation recommendations do not compromise network resilience, site continuity or customer experience.

The ideal candidate will bring strong utilities, facilities, energy management or infrastructure experience, with the commercial and analytical capability to interpret utility data, validate charges and turn insights into practical cost, operational and sustainability outcomes. You’ll be comfortable working across multiple sites, suppliers and internal teams, and able to build structure, momentum and accountability in a fixed term environment.

To succeed in this role, you’ll bring:

• 5–7+ years’ experience in building services, facilities management, utilities management, energy management, infrastructure operations or a related field.
• Practical experience managing electricity or wider utility services, including consumption, billing, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and cost control.
• The ability to interpret electricity pricing, tariff structures, network charges, ICP data or comparable commercial and technical charging methodologies.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to identify inefficiencies, assess opportunities and translate data into practical optimisation actions.
• Experience delivering projects or programmes across multiple sites, suppliers and operational stakeholders, including benefits tracking and regular reporting.
• Supplier and vendor management experience, including contract compliance, service performance, issue resolution and commercial conversations.
• Confidence working with infrastructure, property, network or operational data at portfolio scale, with a strong focus on data integrity and clear records management.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to coordinate across finance, property, operations, technology, sustainability, suppliers, local authorities and lines companies.
• Sound understanding of utility infrastructure, energy management, electrical distribution, power or building services standards and practices.
• Financial acumen and comfort preparing or supporting business cases, investment decisions, monthly reporting and governance updates.
• A continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to embed lessons learned and make optimisation activity repeatable rather than one-off.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical and commercial information clearly to diverse audiences.

We’re shaping a future where all New Zealanders are free to access opportunities that define their own lives, as we expand our network to help Aotearoa grow.

With a new strategy in place and a powerful, inspiring purpose, Chorus is an exciting space right now. We’re on the path to moving from being the great network builder to being the great network operator. To do that, we embrace our mindsets: Be bold, ignite growth, Honour our past, reimagine our future, and Connect communities, empower people. We need people who not only embody these mindsets and the underpinning behaviours but also inspire others to do the same.

With our Chorus Care package benefits behind you, you’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow alongside a caring, open-minded team in an environment that embraces diversity, encourages innovation, redefines flexibility, and offers an enviable work life balance.

We know how to do hybrid working well and have been doing it for years and encourage you to find ways to work flexibly. If it suits your circumstances and delivers great outcomes for Chorus – that’s when you know you’ve found the Flex@Chorus Sweet Spot!

We have a fair, inclusive and equitable culture where our differences are our strengths, we connect on shared values, and everyone has the opportunity to thrive. Please let us know of any accessibility requirements you would like us to consider to support you with your application.We know women are underrepresented in senior roles, and we want to change that. If you’re a woman looking for your next step, in a company that genuinely supports your growth, has a flexible work culture and visible female leaders we’d encourage you to apply.