Work Coordinator

Company Description

Meridian is the largest producer of renewable electricity in Aotearoa, and we strive to deliver clean energy for a fairer and healthier world. We only generate electricity from 100% renewable resources – wind, water, and sun, because we believe that’s the best way forward for our planet and our communities. And, we’re doing what we can to help Aotearoa reduce their carbon emissions and support others in our generation communities to do the same. We also retail electricity to more than 365,000 homes, businesses, and farms across New Zealand through our Meridian and Powershop brands.

Job Description

What you’ll be doing

This role is responsible for ensuring the effective co-ordination of site-based activity across a regional Generation portfolio to enable the delivery of an achievable plan that maximises the capacity of our assets and makes best use of our team capability and availability.

This role is the part of our works planning & scheduling team that forms the key link between our customers and the Generation sites and the teams that serve them.

As the Work Coordinator you’ll work collaboratively with our Maintenance Teams, Projects Team, and Site Owner to identify constraints and optimise work schedules across Meridian’s North Island Generation sites. This role supports several sites and as such it preference is to be based in Wellington or at one of the Generation facilities. Building strong relationships with the teams you are supporting is vital and location play a big role in building those relationships.

Other accountabilities include:

• Coordinate and schedule all planned activity (maintenance and project) across regional sites.
• Facilitate the updating and improved accuracy of job plans and planned maintenance schedules
• Support the development of short, medium, and long-term planning & scheduling activity.
• Schedule work (with support from other teams) to ensure generation plant outages are optimized
• Work collaboratively with other teams and external contractors to ensure that that all work packages are adequately and effectively planned so that production downtime is minimised.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for someone with proven experience of maintenance planning and scheduling within a dynamic industry environment. You’ll come from a heavy engineering or production maintenance background, with experience in managing or coordinating work under time pressure (e.g. during plant or equipment outages/shutdowns).

Other key requirements include:

• Excellent planning, coordination, and work management skills.
• You must be able to effectively work and build relationships with a diverse range of people, across the organisation and with external parties.
• Highly developed problem-solving skills and the ability to think clearly under pressure.
• The ability to identify and evaluate relevant information to support sound decision-making.
• Computer literate and proficient with the use of Microsoft packages.
• Familiarity with a Computer Maintenance Management System (e.g. Maximo or SAP) would be an advantage but not essential.

Additional Information

Why Meridian?

At Meridian, we value all people. We embrace different ways of thinking, living and working, because we believe diversity benefits us all. It makes our capabilities even stronger. We encourage all our people to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work and we’re proud to have a diverse and inclusive workplace. So, no matter who you are, you’ll find it a great place to work.

We value and live by three ‘How to Be’s’: ‘be gutsy’, working together by ‘being in the waka’ and doing the right thing by ‘being a good human’. We work hard and value the importance of connection and fun, whether this be through daily quizzes, morning teas, birthday and cultural celebrations both in person and virtually!

Sustainability sits firmly in our DNA both socially and environmentally. We proudly support KidsCan and the Kākāpō Recovery and work side-by-side with our generation communities to empower and support projects where needed. There are many opportunities to volunteer to any of our partnerships throughout the year.

What we can offer you!

We value work/life balance, so flexible work options could be agreed with your manager (role permitting) to make things easier for you and your whānau. We also offer:

• an attractive and competitive salary package that’s reviewed annually, performance-incentive plus discounts from a number of partnerships
• Southern Cross Healthcare - Wellbeing one insurance, funded scheme for eligible employees to give you that extra peace of mind 
• enhanced leave provisions: three company paid days (over the holiday period), enhanced parental leave and options to buy up to 12 days additional leave
• life, trauma and income protection insurance (which we hope you won’t need!)
• enhanced KiwiSaver contributions
• access to the Meridian employee share scheme
• excellent learning and development opportunities, we want you to be the best version of yourself and will help you get there!
• award winning wellbeing programme that provides support whenever and wherever you need it
• employee discounts off your power with Meridian, every bit counts
• a one-off $400 payment to support your work from home set-up (if needed)

All in all, we’re an awesome place to work. If this sounds like you and you want to bring your energy and use your power to make a difference (pun intended), then apply today and tell us why!

To view the full Position Description please Click Here. If applying through Seek, please visit our Careers page on our website to download a full position description. We’re not necessarily looking for someone who ticks all the boxes (an elusive unicorn), so if you think you have what it takes but don't meet every requirement in the PD, we strongly encourage you to apply!

If you have any general enquiries please [email protected] and one of our team will get back to you. We're committed to becoming more accessible and providing support if needed, please get in touch via email or phone if there are any parts of our process you would like assistance with (process found here meridianenergy.co.nz/careers), we’re more than happy to help.

Advertising closes on 24th January 2025 (please note this is subject to change).