About the role:

As a member of the Water Services Delivery Team the Wastewater Compliance Officer will have a passion for compliance and community service with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail. You will be committed to promoting and maintaining a positive public image of Selwyn District reserves. Your technical and regulatory skills will provide business with guidance and compliance requirements in line with best practice.

• Supporting the Water Services Quality and Compliance Lead in monitoring and managing compliance for Council's wastewater infrastructure assets.
• Monitoring, auditing and reporting on performance and compliance with all resource consents, legislation, standards, bylaws and policies including investigation of any non-compliance.
• Leading the development and implementation of Council's Wastewater Risk Management and Quality Management Plans.
• Providing support to the Wastewater Team including analysis of system performance and providing input to the future planning based on network demand and growth.
• Promote teamwork, inter-team co-operation and knowledge sharing, keeping internal staff informed of changes to the legislative environment.
• Strong understanding of environmental legislation and regulations

About you:

Being an excellent communicator, you are someone who can relate well to a wide range of people, able to use your initiative and work independently. The ideal candidate should demonstrate the ability to make rational judgements and provide workable solutions to a range of problems and have prior Local Government experience.

You will also have:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Environmental Science or a related field or with an equivalent experience
• Relevant experience in wastewater or environment monitoring (5+ years)
• Strong knowledge of risk assessment and Quality Management.
• The ability to understand and implement environmental legislation and regulations
• Experience with wastewater, auditing or industrial wastewater processes

Essentially, you have a strong wastewater knowledge base to be able to deliver the functionality of the role including wastewater quality monitoring and analysis, Compliance reporting and data management

What we can offer:

• Great work-life balance with flexibility
• Career coaching and development
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing and volunteer leave
• Three days paid leave between Christmas and New Year
• Two weeks paid Partners Leave
• Sick leave from day one
• Continued KiwiSaver contributions during savings suspension
• Discounts with local and national businesses

About us:

Selwyn is one of the fastest-growing districts in New Zealand. We have a fantastic quality of life, great communities, and a thriving economy. Our Council works actively with residents to provide the services and facilities that help our communities to thrive and grow.

Our head office is based in Rolleston (only 25km from Christchurch), which offers an enviable family lifestyle, outstanding local facilities and an easy drive to the ski fields, rivers and hills that make up Canterbury's stunning landscape.

Our values are important to us and represent the way we work: · Be a good human · Be brave - Think differently · Better together- Make it happen for Selwyn.

We honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi and we are committed to working with our Treaty partner to deliver on our obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

We value the safety of our community - this role requires a satisfactory safety check including police vetting and for you to pass a drug and alcohol test.

If you'd like to play a part in making Selwyn the best place to live, work and play, join us today!