Mai te hiku ki te taurapa, whitikina e te rā 
From the tail of the fish to the tail of the waka, shines the sun 

We’re Aotearoa’s largest renewable electricity producer, generating power from 100% renewable sources—wind, water, and sun!

Mō te tūranga | What you’ll be doing 

This is an exciting opportunity to join our excellent Wholesale Operations team in a role that beautifully combines two key functions:

• Electricity Trader: Monitor and adjust trading as market conditions change.
• Generation Controller: You’ll be responsible for remotely managing and dispatching Meridian’s portfolio of hydro and wind energy generation assets across Aotearoa, New Zealand.

You’ll collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure our plant operates safely, efficiently, and in compliance with regulations, helping us achieve our energy trading and revenue targets. Additionally, you’ll provide our Energy Trading Team with valuable advice, identify potential problem areas, and offer thoughtful solutions.

Please note, this role can be based at our Wellington, Christchurch or Twizel offices.

Our Generation Controller function operates 24/7, including weekends and overnight hours. This means a typical roster looks like this:

• Rotating 12-hour shifts between 6am and 6pm:
  • X2 – day shifts – 6am to 6pm
  • X2 – night shifts – 6pm to 6am
  • X4 – days off.

Ngā painga ki a mātou | What we can offer!   

We value work/life balance, and flexible work options (where possible) make things easier for you and your whānau. We also offer:

• An attractive and competitive salary package that’s reviewed annually, performance-incentive plus discounts from several partnerships
• Southern Cross Healthcare – Wellbeing one insurance, funded scheme for eligible employees to give you that extra peace of mind
• Enhanced leave provisions: three company paid days (over the holiday period), enhanced parental leave and options to buy up to 12 days additional leave
• Life, trauma and income protection insurance (which we hope you won’t need!)
• Enhanced KiwiSaver contributions
• Access to the Meridian employee share scheme
• Excellent learning and development opportunities, we want you to be the best version of yourself and will help you get there!
• Award winning wellbeing programme that provides support whenever and wherever you need it
• Employee discounts off your power with Meridian, every bit counts
• A one-off $400 payment to support your work from home set-up (if needed)

All in all, we’re an awesome place to work. If this sounds like you and you want to bring your energy and use your power to make a difference (pun intended), then apply today and tell us why!

Ngā pukenga kei a koe mō tenei tūranga | What you’ll bring

With a trade or tertiary qualification, or relevant plant operation/system control experience, you’ll be able to monitor large amounts of information with great attention to detail while keeping an eye on the bigger picture. You’ll need strong computer skills and basic math accuracy for numerical tasks.

This role involves shift work, where you’ll take sole charge of our generation control desk, requiring you to think and respond under pressure. When not on shifts, you’ll collaborate on projects and tasks that support the team.

Tono mai ināianei tonu | Apply now 

If this sounds like you and you want to bring your energy and use your power to make a difference (pun intended), then apply today and tell us why!

To view the full Position Description, please click here – we’re not necessarily looking for someone who ticks all the boxes (an elusive unicorn), so if you think you have what it takes but don’t meet every requirement in the PD, we strongly encourage you to apply!

If you have any general enquiries, please rznvy [email protected] and one of our team will get back to you. We’re committed to becoming more accessible and providing support if needed, please get in touch via email or phone if there are any parts of our process you would like assistance with (process found here meridianenergy.co.nz/careers), we’re more than happy to help.

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