Hydro Technician Manawa Energy location Bay of Plenty. $90,000 - $100,000.

Do you want to contribute to New Zealand's renewable energy future. Are you ready for a challenging and varied role. Manawa Energy is offering an exciting opportunity for a Mechanical Hydro Technician. In this position, you'll join a team of hydro power specialists responsible for maintaining and managing hydro power stations, dams, and water infrastructure throughout the Bay of Plenty region.

This is a rare and rewarding opportunity to enhance your mechanical expertise while gaining valuable knowledge about the operation of power stations and the supporting infrastructure needed to generate clean, green, renewable electricity.

The mechanical component of this role will be varied and challenging. You will be working on large rotating machinery and ancillary equipment, dam and spillway structures. There is also an electrical equipment maintenance component where mechanical skills are necessary.

Ensure plant reliability by performing routine maintenance using our CMMS - Maximo. Improve plant and equipment performance by completing asset improvement projects. Provide fault finding and diagnostic skills to ensure the availability of our assets is world class. The hydro technician component of this role will be to ensure that the day-to-day onsite operation of the hydro assets run smoothly.

This roll will require you to complete routine power station, dam, and water infrastructure inspections. Isolate and present the hydro generation plant in a safe and workable state using the Staylive, work control procedures. Work with HV electrical systems. Manage key stakeholder relationships internally and externally. Complete the required tasks to ensure we comply with our compliance programmes.

Our ideal candidate will be a technically minded person with a level 4 certificate in a mechanical trade, preferably with industrial experience in hydraulics, heavy rotating machinery or HV electrical networks. Accurate with literacy and numbers. Savvy with computers and digital applications. An excellent communicator. A contributing team player.

At Manawa Energy we invest in the growth of our people so if you don't quite have all the skills and experience listed, still apply. There will be plenty of opportunity for you to develop your career here, with us.

In return we offer transport to and from work daily. Discounted health insurance. Good Energy Leave. Life and trauma insurance. A competitive salary package and exciting assets to work on. Full training provided via our 'Hydro Tech Training Pathway' program.

About Manawa Energy Manawa Energy has 44 hydro power stations and one diesel peaking station across 26 schemes with an installed capacity of 510MW and annual average production of 1,942GWh. We also have irrigation assets in the South Island. We are considered a leader in public, personnel and asset safety and risk management with our 'licence to operate' at the forefront of all decision making and we are not afraid to do things differently.

We are one of Aotearoa New Zealand's largest renewable energy generators, with over a century of experience in operating and developing renewable electricity generation assets, and we're at the beginning of a new chapter.