angle-right Job no: 583773
Work type: Full Time - Permanent
Location: Wellington
Categories: Construction, Civil Engineering

Downer has been designing, building and sustaining New Zealand's infrastructure for over a century and is a leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand.

With over 10,000 employees in New Zealand, we work alongside some of New Zealand's biggest businesses, councils and government agencies.

Downer New Zealand is a leading provider of integrated services. Our commitment to building long term relationships and supporting our customers with high calibre services and solutions; the talents of our people; and consistent excellence in operational delivery sets us apart.

We are looking for a Supervisor to join the Wellington team based in Porirua. This is an awesome opportunity to join a great crew and being involved in exciting projects such as working on city park projects, rebuilding Porirua roads, renewing many of the cities drainage, and footpaths assets

About the role
We're looking for someone who will lead our frontline staff and be a strong and important member of our delivery team. As a member of the road delivery team, this person will be responsible for ensuring a positive Zero Harm culture is continually developed and enhanced. Other duties include supervising and enhancing processes associated with the provision of physical works including safety, traffic management, quality, environmental, financial, resource management in the delivery of maintenance, capital and emergency works to ensure the outputs meet expectations in the most cost effective manner

Additionally, this person will ensure key customer and key stakeholder relationships are enhanced and good working relationships within the Wellington team are maintained and developed, actively fostering a "leading through collaboration" and "best for network" approach.

About you
You'll have a proven track record of supervising teams in the Roads Maintenance and civil's field and have the attitude to provides solutions to assist with a "continual improvement" philosophy - in other words bring your ideas to try new things. You'll also have:

• Excellent adaptable verbal communication skills to converse at all levels
• The ability to influence with demonstrated leadership behaviours that empower others
• Ability to drive projects and complete within specified time frames
• Good knowledge of computers and be able to find your way around Microsoft office
• Full Class 1 drivers licence minimum