Maintenance Planner

Great team culture with a balance of support and autonomy

Scope to influence outcomes and make your mark

Based at our Petone Office

This is a full-time position of 40 hours per week.

The remuneration range for this role is $83,204.22 to $117,464.79 p.a. (including KiwiSaver) depending on skills and experience.

The opportunity

In this role you will deliver work with the Maximo system to support the development and delivery of the three waters planned maintenance programs across the region, ensuring that the asset data is collected, stored and utilised to optimise future planned programs.

Working across Network Operations your focus will be providing close support to the councils via dedicated customer planning engineers.

You will be involved in:

managing and overseeing key relationships with internal and external partners across Wellington Water, including with system support specialists internally and within our Alliance partner

developing effective Planned Maintenance Programs within Maximo works order management system

providing support to the Service Delivery team on Planned Maintenance Programs

monitoring the status of maintenance plans and assisting teams with follow up activities

assisting in the training and development of staff competency in the use of the computerised Asset Management System.

About you

Your success will come from your ability to build a wide range of relationships, maintain a manageable workload for the team and foster a culture that puts doing the right thing at the forefront.

To be successful in this role you'll also bring:

a minimum of five years' experience in enterprise level asset maintenance planning tools and asset management, ideally including some experience with Maximo

strong computer literacy specifically with maintenance and asset management systems

full NZ Class 1 license

budget/financial management experience

diploma in Engineering/Degree qualification (Civil, Mech, Elect) or other suitable trade qualification.

Benefits

At Tiaki Wai, our purpose extends beyond delivering great water services for the region; we foster a thriving community, support a diverse workforce, and offer supportive development opportunities. We genuinely care about your safety and wellbeing.

Our benefits include:

flexible working arrangements including up to two days working from home

comprehensive wellbeing programme, including one paid wellbeing day annually

formal and informal professional development opportunities

* five weeks annual leave accrual will be available following two years of continual service.

For a full list of our employee benefits, click here.

About us

Tiaki Wai is the professional water services provider across Greater Wellington and South Wairarapa. Our job is to provide safe and healthy drinking water, collect and treat wastewater, and ensure the stormwater network is well managed. We're a multi-council owned entity, tasked to manage the infrastructure and deliver water services to our communities.

The value of water (a precious taonga) sits at our organisational heart. Our people are passionate about providing waters services for our communities and environment which is reflective in our values; Tangata Tiaki, Whānau and Mana.

Applications close: Sunday, 25th October 2026.

How to apply

To view a copy of the position description: click here

To apply for the role, click on the 'apply' button or visit the Tiaki Wai Careers site, please note if you are a Tiaki Wai employee please apply using your work email.

For further information, email: [email protected]

Applicants for safety sensitive roles will be required to undergo drug and alcohol testing prior to commencing employment with Tiaki Wai. You must also be legally entitled to work long-term in New Zealand or eligible to obtain a working visa.