Line Mechanic

Line Mechanic – Northpower

We’re looking for an experienced and safety-focused Line Mechanic to join our Construction and Maintenance team. You’ll play a vital role in ensuring the reliable delivery of electricity across our network from constructing and maintaining overhead lines to operating key equipment up to 33 kV. If you take pride in practical, hands‑on work and want to contribute to essential infrastructure, this could be the ideal role for you.

Role Responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for the construction and maintenance of overhead electrical lines, ensuring all work meets customer, project, and network requirements. You will contribute to developing work plans for the construction, servicing, and upgrading of electricity lines and associated equipment, while also installing and replacing overhead conductors and pole structures as needed. Your responsibilities include overhauling non‑load‑bearing pole hardware in electrical networks up to 110 kV and operating both ground‑mounted and structure‑mounted electrical equipment for lines up to 33 kV. Throughout all tasks, you will be expected to work safely, efficiently, and to a consistently high professional standard.

Qualifications

• EWRB Registration – Line Mechanic (required)
• NZ Driver Licence (required)
• HT Licence (highly desirable)
• Additional competencies relevant to the network or customer (advantageous)

Skills & Experience

About Us

Northpower is one of the largest multi‑utility contractors in New Zealand, servicing the needs of clients in transmission, distribution, generation, fibre and commercial sectors. We have over 1,400 employees working together across 16 locations to keep the power on and the lights going for our customers.

Apply Now

At Northpower, your part of a team that respects your experience, listens to your ideas, and celebrates your wins. We work hard, we back each other, and we’re proud of the role we play in keeping the communities running. Please apply through our careers website. Suitable applicants will be interviewed while the advertisement is open. You must be in New Zealand and possess a current work visa. We cannot consider applications from those without the right to work in New Zealand.

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