Instrumentation Technician - South
Watercare
- Auckland
- Permanent
- Full-time
When the water is healthy, the land and the people are healthyWatercare is the largest water and wastewater utility in New Zealand providing more than 400 million litres of water to Auckland every day. Now is an exciting time to join Watercare, we're planning to spend $18.5 billion over the next 20 years to ensure we can continue to support our growing city in a climate-resilient way. When you average that out, that's an investment of $2.5 million every day.It doesn't just stop there; we ensure that sustainability lies at the heart of everything that we do to help protect our water resources for future generations. This means that we are continuously focused on how we can reduce our carbon footprint with initiatives likes solar panels, electric cars, revegetation programmes and much, much more. We really are a company that wants to make a positive difference.He whakamārama mō te tūranga mahi | About the roleWe have an exciting opportunity for an Instrumentation Technician to join our team based at our Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant. This will be an exciting role for someone that wants to prove their strength in instrumentation and problem solving to ensure that our drinking water and wastewater services are effectively supplied to the Auckland community.You role will be to ensure that equipment is working properly, safely, and efficiently. Your responsibilities will be to test, calibrate, install, repair and inspect manufacturing equipment and monitoring devices. You'll also perform general maintenance on the equipment and design new measuring and recording equipment.Day to day you will be:
- Maintaining the operational functionality of instrumentation and control systems
- Installing and commissioning additions or upgrades to existing systems
- Responding to control system alarms as they arise
- Notifying supervisors of any systems found to be at risk
- Maintaining accurate records of calibration or test results
- An in-depth technical knowledge of process control systems and experience in PLC, SCADA & DCS systems, especially their application in a continuous process environment
- The ability to lead and work with a team of technical specialists
- The ability to prioritise tasks and work independently
- Have attention to detail with excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Training and development opportunities
- Life and income protection insurance plans
- Generous parental leave
- Employee discounts at a range of large retailers