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New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand
Applications close:
16 Oct 2026
Overview
About the role
As Reliability Analytics Manager, you'll lead the development and execution of Powerco's reliability analytics strategy, ensuring data, insights, and analysis are translated into actions that improve network reliability, asset performance, and regulatory outcomes. You'll combine strong technical analytics expertise with people leadership, guiding a small team while partnering closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Asset Management, Operations, Planning, Regulatory, and Leadership teams.
This role is responsible for driving innovation in analytics, establishing reliable data and reporting practices, delivering meaningful insights, and championing the use of advanced analytics to support investment prioritisation and operational decision making. You'll also represent Powerco in industry forums and help ensure we remain at the forefront of reliability and performance analytics.
Requirements
About you
You'll be an experienced people leader with a passion for turning data into business outcomes. You can comfortably move between technical analytics discussions and engaging with stakeholders to influence decisions and drive change.
Our ideal candidate will bring:
- Experience leading analytics, engineering, or data-driven programmes and teams.
- Strong people leadership skills, with a proven ability to coach and develop technical professionals.
- Expertise across descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.
- Experience working with modern analytics platforms, databases, and data management practices.
- The ability to communicate complex information in a way that creates understanding and action.
- An innovative mindset and a focus on continuous improvement.
- Ideally, knowledge of electricity distribution, asset management, reliability performance, or other infrastructure-intensive industries.
What we can offer you
What's in it for you?
- Be part of a great organisation that will develop you.
- Opportunity to shape and grow a critical analytics capability.
- Supportive and collaborative team environment.
Who we are
Our purpose is to connect communities. It's at the heart of everything we do as we serve our customers now and into the future. At Powerco, we're passionate about doing mahi that keeps over 1.1 million customers connected and enables energy choices as we leverage Aotearoa low carbon electricity system and grow our economy towards a net zero 2050 goal.
Tell us about how you'd be the best person for our team. Apply now!
📅 Applications close: Friday 16 October
