Technical Writer

What sets this role apart:

• Use your technical writing expertise to design and uplift engineering management standards, driving accuracy, safety, and assurance across operations.
• Bring clarity to mission‑critical work by creating documentation that helps reduce customer outages and improves reliability.
• Establish governance, compliance alignment, and change‑control pathways that make processes consistent and future‑proof.

About the Role

This opportunity allows you to build and refine the engineering operations documentation foundation for a major transformation programme. You’ll own the frameworks, standards and tools that underpin quality assurance, compliance, and operational consistency, directly influencing how teams prevent outages, manage assets, and deliver exceptional service. Your work gains high visibility and becomes a lasting part of business‑as‑usual.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Developing and maintaining engineering operation standards, procedures, policies and business rules, giving you deep engagement with operational, engineering and digital teams
• Translating complex electrical, operational and process information into clear, accurate and accessible controlled documents
• Creating and refining governance structures for approvals, change control and compliance alignment
• Mapping, simplifying and improving end‑to‑end business processes to support transformation and continuous improvement
• Using documentation tools (Confluence, SharePoint, Visio, Lucid) to publish content that teams trust and can easily navigate
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders and external service providers to ensure new standards are well understood and consistently applied

About You

You thrive in environments where engineering discipline, operational accuracy and clear process matter. You enjoy partnering with SMEs, simplifying complex information and building systems that keep people safe and operations reliable. You’re detail‑focused, collaborative and driven by continuous improvement, comfortable shaping standards, influencing stakeholders and owning outcomes end‑to‑end.

What You’ll Need to Bring

• Technical writing experience within engineering, utilities, infrastructure or similar complexity within large programmes of work
• Ability to analyse, document and simplify technical and operational processes
• Familiarity with controlled document environments, compliance, approvals and change control
• Experience using documentation and diagramming tools to present information clearly
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and a commitment to accuracy, safety and quality

About the Company

We’re partnering with an organisation delivering essential services at scale across Aotearoa. With a strong focus on reliability, safety and continuous improvement, they’re investing in transforming their operational systems and processes. Employees value the meaningful mission, collaborative environment and the opportunity to shape standards that support communities every day.

How to Apply

If this opportunity resonates with you, click Apply Now or reach out to Michelle Bullock, Managing Consultant on 022 4933 577 for a confidential chat. All applications will be handled with the utmost discretion.

NOTE to overseas enquiries and non‑NZ residents:
Only applicants who are legally entitled to work in New Zealand and can attend interviews in New Zealand will be considered.

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