Senior Water Technician – Auckland
Lead with purpose. Empower your team. Shape the future of water infrastructure.
At Mott MacDonald New Zealand, we’re looking for a Senior Water Technician to take a leadership role within our specialist water utility monitoring team. This is your opportunity to guide and mentor others, manage field operations, and contribute to high-impact water and wastewater projects that make a real difference across Aotearoa.
This role blends technical expertise with team leadership, offering a dynamic mix of fieldwork, data analysis, and strategic coordination. You’ll be instrumental in ensuring the safety, quality, and performance of our monitoring programs—programs that underpin major infrastructure upgrades and environmental compliance.
Why this role matters
As a senior technician, you’ll play a key role in delivering reliable data that informs decisions on network performance, water quality, and sustainability. You’ll lead by example, fostering a culture of safety, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
What you’ll do
What’s in it for you
This senior role offers significant opportunities for professional growth and leadership development, including:
You’ll be supported with comprehensive training, safety equipment, vaccinations, and ongoing career development. We’ll help you grow your impact—professionally and personally.
About you
We’re looking for someone who’s:
A background in plumbing, drainlaying, building, or contracting is valuable. Leadership experience in technical or field-based roles is highly desirable.
Our culture
At Mott MacDonald, we value diversity, collaboration, and wellbeing. We’re committed to inclusive hiring and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. If this role resonates with you—even if you don’t meet every requirement—we encourage you to apply.
We offer:
About us
We’re a global consultancy with a mission to improve society through innovation, integrity, and excellence. Our values—progress, respect, integrity, drive, and excellence—guide everything we do.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.
Agile working
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.