Regional Manager

Regional Manager – Central Region

At Veolia Australia and New Zealand, you’ll join a team of over 4000 passionate innovators... and good humans. Our environmental solutions help customers preserve and renew our natural resources, creating a better future for our planet. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to build your career, and resource the world. 

Veolia is seeking an experienced Regional Manager reporting to the National Operations Manager.   You will be responsible for strategic planning and ensuring delivery on all aspects of the Central Region and ensuring positive working relationships with Veolia clients and stakeholders and collaboration towards common outcomes.  

This role is key to managing the senior stakeholder relationships and will be required to provide technical guidance and leadership to the Central Region Contract Managers.

The Central Region Contracts are currently Whanganui, South Taranaki, Ruapehu and Department of Conversation (DOC)  Whakapapa.  For this role the successful candidate will need to live and work within the region.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Ensuring a focus to customer service and meeting key performance targets 
  • Provide leadership to Contract Managers and the Operations teams 
  • Identify new strategies to win and retain profitable new business 
  • Manage financial budgets and reporting
  • Proactive commitment to health, safety and environmental standards across all contracts
  • Maintain key client relationships
  • Train, mentor and develop the team to ensure employee professional development and dual skilling for business flexibility and continuity

Skills of the successful applicant include: 

  • Bachelor of engineering degree and/or relevant tertiary qualification
  • A minimum of 10 years’ experience in a management position with at least five years’ experience in water and wastewater infrastructure and its planning, design and installation, drinking water standards and/or resource consent compliance
  • Proven ability to establish and maintain working relationships with clients and colleagues
  • Ability to understand business and contract models
  • Experience in leading a team and driving results

Apply now to be considered for this exciting opportunity.  


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