Technical Manager – Lower North Island

Position purpose

The purpose of this role is to support the General Manager by providing disciplined technical leadership, operational assurance, and commercial growth capability across all service and maintenance activities.

The Technical Manager is accountable not only for ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, within scope and budget, and to defined quality standards, but also for driving new business opportunities, strengthening stakeholder relationships, and implementing the division’s growth strategy.

This role translates business priorities into executable technical and

commercial plans, proactively manages delivery and compliance risk, strengthens reporting and performance systems, and builds a high-performing team culture so that client confidence, sustainable revenue growth, and long-term asset performance outcomes remain central to everything we do.

• Partner with the General Manager to implement

• Identify, pursue, and convert new business

• Develop and strengthen strategic stakeholder

• Contribute to revenue forecasting, pipeline

• Support tendering, pricing strategy, and

1. Market Positioning and Client Expansion

• Lead technical engagement with clients to

• Proactively identify upsell and cross-sell

• Establish long-term service frameworks and

• Represent the division in client forums,

1. Technical Governance and Delivery Assurance

• Ensure all programmes are executed safely,

• Maintain structured oversight of scope, risk,

• Strengthen quality assurance frameworks and

• Ensure documentation, audit readiness,

1. Commercial Performance and Financial Discipline

• Monitor divisional performance against budget,

• Identify cost drivers and implement strategies

• Support structured pricing models that reflect

• Ensure variation management and scope controls

1. Risk Leadership and Systems Maturity

• Identify operational, compliance, and

• Lead root-cause analysis on systemic issues

• Strengthen reporting frameworks to provide

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that

1. People Leadership and Capability Uplift

• Build a technically strong, commercially aware

• Develop leadership capability within direct

• Foster accountability, performance ownership,

• Align team KPIs with growth, quality, and

safety expectations.