Whakatakoto te tūāpapa | Laying the foundation

At Contact Energy, we’re here to power Aotearoa’s future, making energy more sustainable, reliable, and better for our customers and communities. Our Geothermal Turnaround team plays a critical role in this, planning and delivering essential maintenance that keeps our stations running safely and efficiently when it matters most.

From Wairakei and across our geothermal fleet, this team works at the heart of our operations, bringing together expertise, planning, and precision execution to ensure our assets perform at their best and continue delivering renewable energy for New Zealand.

Te āhua o te tūranga | The nature of the role

This is an opportunity to step into a hands-on, high-impact role as a Turnaround Coordinator based at Wairakei, where you’ll play a key part in planning and delivering critical maintenance programmes across our generation assets. You’ll be right in the middle of the action, working closely with site teams, contractors, and leaders to ensure everything is ready to go before a turnaround begins, and that it runs safely, efficiently, and to plan.

From scoping work and coordinating resources through to supporting execution and close-out in SAP, you’ll help keep everything moving. You’ll lead pre-work preparation, support teams through the delivery phase, and ensure everything wraps up cleanly and compliantly. It’s a role that blends planning, coordination, and problem solving, where your ability to keep people aligned and focused will make all the difference.

Ko wai koe | About you

You’re someone who enjoys being on the ground, solving problems, and bringing structure to complex work. You might come from an electrical or operational background, and you understand what it takes to deliver maintenance work safely and effectively in a live environment.

We’d love to see:

• A relevant trade, diploma, or equivalent experience in a maintenance discipline, this is a must-have
• Experience in maintenance, turnaround environments, or similar project-based work, also a must-have
• Confidence working with systems like SAP or similar, nice-to-have but highly valued
• Experience supervising teams or contractors, helpful but not essential if you’ve led work informally
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships across teams

Most importantly, you bring a can-do attitude, sound judgement, and a focus on safety and quality. If you’re someone who takes pride in your work, looks for continuous improvement, and enjoys working alongside others to get the job done, you’ll fit right in, even if you don’t tick every box.

There are a bunch of perks to being a permanent Contact kaimahi. Along with great leadership, teammates, development, and growth and progression opportunities, free health insurance cover, better-than-your-average leave, access to Contact Shares, a ‘Good to be Home’ annual payment toward your home set up & wellbeing, a trail-blazing parental leave policy, bi-annual payments towards Contact Energy products, and more!

Applications close 9am Monday the 6th of July 2026

Here at Contact Energy (Te Mata Hiko), we know our strength lies in developing a sense of belonging - one that helps us attract and retain people with a broad range of perspectives and experiences.

We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our customers and communities to help build a better Aotearoa New Zealand.

We have a rich community of talented people that we support to thrive at Contact.

Our inclusive hiring process is designed to embrace the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand, ensuring a wide range of perspectives are included in our decision-making and helping reduce bias along the way.

The wellbeing of our kaimahi is super important to us.

We use employee insights to offer a range of initiatives and resources to support physical, mental, financial and emotional wellbeing – including flexible working arrangements, employee network groups and a market-leading parental leave policy.

At Te Mata Hiko, we want everyone to thrive. We welcome applicants far and wide - of every age, stage, background, and pride. Join us and be part of a team that values your passion and attitude just as much as your experience and skills.

Please note, only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria, women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box. We're not about box ticking, so if you think you have what it takes but don't meet everything stated above, please still get in touch. We'd love to kōrero.

Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) does not accept any CVs received from recruitment agencies where a formal engagement has not been confirmed and agreed to with our Talent team. In the event that unsolicited CVs are submitted by recruitment agencies, Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question. This will also apply to any CVs sent directly to line managers.