Technical Advisor

Overview

Coach field staff on safety, risk, and technical standards to improve operations.

Key Responsibilities

• technical upskilling
• safety enhancements
• compliance management
• technical auditing
• team coaching
• risk assessment

Tasks

-Champion learning—foster a culture of ongoing growth by supporting development pathways, guiding technical upskilling, and integrating lessons learned in day-to-day practices -Enhance Performance—identify and implement technical and safety enhancements that make a real difference in daily operation -Share your knowledge—help shape training, coach technical skills, and support continuous development across our workforce -Keep it compliant—stay ahead of industry regulations and ensure our crews are equipped to meet them -Set the Standard—conduct 2nd line of defence activities and verify technical competencies, assess trade tools, and refine procedures across the board -Back the teams—Coach Supervisors, Team Leaders, and field staff in the application of safe work methods, risk assessment, and critical controls

Requirements

• safety
• technical
• audit
• risk management
• communication
• regulatory

What You Bring

-Strong influencing and mentoring skills, with a proactive, safety-first mindset -A strong technical field background, with audit and risk management knowledge -Excellent communication skills and the ability to coach field and leadership teams -Practical understanding of regulatory frameworks and industry best practices

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Benefits

-Opportunities for technical and leadership growth -A collaborative, supportive team culture -In-house wellbeing support including Kaitiaki peer network and EAP services -Competitive remuneration

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.

Security Clearance

-criminal history check -drug and alcohol testing -medical assessment