Maintenance Specialist - Substations

Overview

Lead maintenance & asset management for high‑voltage substations, ensuring safety and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• maintenance planning
• invoicing
• quality control
• safety management
• substation maintenance
• capital works

Tasks

-Support, mentor, and work collaboratively with your team and subcontractors. -Develop and manage preventative, corrective, and asset replacement maintenance plans. -Handle invoicing, pricing, and financial reporting accurately and on time. -Drive quality, safety, and efficiency across all workstreams. -Promote a positive, safety-focused team culture and uphold Northpower’s values. -Oversee maintenance activities for substations and high-voltage systems, ensuring compliance with all regulations. -Manage minor capital works and corrective maintenance from scoping to completion.

Requirements

• pmp
• asset management
• maintenance planning
• 5+ years
• electrical engineering
• ewrb

What You Bring

-Project management experience (PMP certification a plus). -Strong asset management and maintenance planning skills. -5+ years’ operational experience in electrical distribution, substations, or high-voltage maintenance. -Diploma or Degree in Electrical Engineering. -EWRB registration. -Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving abilities. -A team player with the ability to build strong relationships internally and externally.

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Benefits

-Life Insurance and group discounted medical insurance. -An in-house well-being programme, a peer support network (Kaitiaki) and EAP services. -Family-friendly events and discounted gym membership along with various retail discounts. -A friendly workplace where people are valued and appreciated. -Competitive remuneration with full private use vehicle.

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.

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Security Clearance

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