Trainee Power Technician

Overview

Assist in fault finding, installation, and maintenance of power distribution equipment.

Key Responsibilities

• afterhours response
• fault finding
• equipment installation
• safety checks
• documentation
• transformer maintenance

Tasks

-Getting involved in afterhours response work when needed. -Supporting the team with fault finding testing, installation, and maintenance of electrical and substation equipment. -Attending block courses and completing your training standards on time. -Completing safety checks, documentation, and quality audits. -Assisting with the upkeep and installation of transformers and switchgear.

Requirements

• technical drawings
• troubleshooting
• equipment

What You Bring

-Learning to interpret technical drawings and troubleshoot equipment issues.

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About Northpower

-It blends ownership and contracting—running its own electricity and fibre networks while delivering engineering and construction services nationwide. -Financially robust, it sustains large-scale contracts with major utilities and returns profits to its consumer-owned trust. -Its projects range from substation upgrades and submarine cable installations to managing transmission lines and future-energy installations. -Specialising in transmission, distribution, fibre rollout, inspection solutions and grid‑scale solar, it tackles every layer of utility infrastructure. -Unusually, the company owns and operates one of the region’s oldest hydro stations and recently launched a portable data centre prototype.

Sector Specialisms

Interview Process

-applicants will be interviewed while the advertisement is open.

Visa Sponsorship

-candidates must already have a valid new zealand work visa; no sponsorship is offered.