People & Capability Advisor

This is a permanent role that will support the requirements of a growing workforce and increased water services for our community and region. The remuneration grade is between $86,230 and $121,736 including kiwisaver.

Appointment remuneration will be dependent on skills and experience.

The opportunity

As a People & Capability Advisor you will contribute to Wellington Water Ltd’s people strategy and support people leaders and kaimahi across change, employment relation matters, early career support, and applying HR legislation and best practice. Day to day you will :

• Build strong relationships that foster partnership with people leaders and identify pragmatic people-centred solutions.
• Support recruitment and workforce requirements with a focus on creating reflective position descriptions.
• Support positive culture and development that enables high-performance and accountability.
• Assess position size and grading (using a remuneration framework based on strategic pay) and support the People & Capability Lead across change and transformation
• Support cyclical projects including remuneration, graduate programmes and other team driven initiatives.
• Review and create offer and employment documentation and support onboarding activities.
• Contribute to and Lead ER cases with a focus on positive outcomes and compliance.
• Apply legislation, best practice and HR policies to all people related engagements and support leaders through any employment related matters.

About you

To be successful in this role you will bring :

• 3+ years People & Capability or HR Advisory experience.
• Pride in service with the ability to build meaningful and collaborative relationships.
• A thorough understanding of employment legislation and HR best practice.
• Strong interpersonal qualities and the ability to engage and provide high-level and consistent advice across an organisation.
• An understanding of a unionised workforce and industrial relations.
• High attention to detail and experience producing, creating and understanding employment documentation.
• Ability to self-manage, prioritise and meet deadlines in-line with programmes of work.
• Intermediate Microsoft office product and business application capability.

Benefits

At Wellington Water, our purpose extends beyond delivering great water services for the region; we foster a thriving community, support a diverse workforce, and offer supportive development opportunities. We genuinely care about your safety and wellbeing.

Our benefits include :

• Flexible working arrangements including up to 2 days working from home
• Comprehensive wellbeing programme, including one paid wellbeing day annually
• Formal and informal professional development opportunities
• 5 weeks annual leave accrual will be available following 2 years of continual service

For a full list of our employee benefits, click here.

About us

Wellington Water is the professional water services provider across Greater Wellington and South Wairarapa. Our job is to provide safe and healthy drinking water, collect and treat wastewater, and ensure the stormwater network is well managed. We’re a multi-council owned entity, tasked to manage the infrastructure and deliver water services to our communities.

The value of water (a precious taonga) sits at our organisational heart. Our people are passionate about providing waters services for our communities and environment which is reflective in our values; Tangata Tiaki, Whānau and Mana.

Applications close : Wednesday 8th October 2025

How to apply

To view a copy of the position description, here.

To apply for the role, visit the Wellington Water Careers site, please note if you are a Wellington Water employee please apply using your work email.

For further information, email :

You must be legally entitled to work long-term in New Zealand and have an appropriate Visa.

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