For a strategic thinker, there’s nothing more frustrating than being stuck in the minutiae. It’s the big picture that inspires an engineer of your caliber. You’re motivated by tackling the big problems, creating the innovative solutions and nurturing them to the concept design stage. At Dunedin City Council, you can keep your focus solely on strategy development while embracing some of the many lifestyle advantages this great little city has to offer.
Whether you’re at the top of your game or ready to make that step up, this Council’s ‘3 Waters’ Strategy, with its focus on sustainably managing the city’s water, waste water and storm water for the next 40 plus years, offers some of the best projects around. You’ll make your mark on these projects - researching, monitoring and developing strategic options that will ensure Dunedin is self-sufficient into the future.
There will be plenty of variety and challenges to look forward to as you build rapport and buy-in with colleagues across departments and teams. Here, your communication and people skills will set you apart, creating a tailored approach for each audience.
It’s possible you have worked for Council before or perhaps you’re ready to move out of the competitive consultancy environment. Either way, you’ll have a relevant engineering degree, strategic development experience that demonstrates that vital big picture capability and ideally, proven project management experience. Naturally, water experience would be an advantage.
Flexible hours, secure employment, easy commuting, relaxed pace of life, cheaper housing, thriving café and restaurant scene, beautiful beaches, historic architecture, museums, galleries and central Otago pinot noir, ski fields and breathtaking natural beauty on your doorstep, are just some of the things that make a move to this small but perfectly formed city, an appealing one!
If you’d like to explore being part of an innovative, close-knit and welcoming team in a friendly, down-to-earth, unique city full of people just like you, apply online now and make 2019 your best yet.