Analyst - Infrastructure Resilience at Transpower New Zealand Limited, Wellington

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Work cross enterprise, to provide risk and resilience data and modelling
• Provide data for climate related disclosures and adaptation plan initiatives
• Challenging analytical work that will drive significant value

Support resilience and climate change adaptation for critical infrastructure worth $5b, through data collection and analytics for the National Grid!

Our core purpose is to empower the energy future for New Zealand - a future that delivers a net-zero carbon economy and a reliable and secure electricity system.

As the owner and operator of New Zealand's electricity transmission grid, we provide a critical service, including seeking to understand how the grid can deliver the cost-effective level of service expected of customers, while accommodating the growing demand for renewable electricity through electrification of industry and transport.

About the team 

Transpower's Grid Development division works to identify grid needs for the next 30 years. We undertake critical activities to inform investments that ensure the grid is safe, reliable and resilient, and that these investments are integrated with wider system plans. 

Our Strategy Performance and Risk group develops our asset management system, including our grid strategies, risk, and resilience information. The team also reports on grid performance, manages asset and system information, and models asset health and criticality.  

Our newly created Resilience and Adaptation team of four is responsible for the risk and resilience information, frameworks to support resilience and adaptation within the asset management system and provides risk and resilience reporting.

 The opportunity - super interesting work!

You'll work collaboratively to improve our risk and resilience information and modelling including working with researchers to acquire new data.

 We'll support you to further develop the grid risk and resilience dataset and applications, such that information is clear, communicated, and fit-for-purpose for future focused decision-making.

You'll deliver data analysis and modelling to enable risk-based decisions to be made across the Grid business and improve Transpower's understanding of its vulnerability to Major Hazard events and the impacts of those events. You'll provide climate related and non-climate related reporting of risk and support initiatives within the Transpower adaptation plan.

Ultimately, you'll grow your skills as both an Analyst and Asset and Risk Management professional through broadening and deepening your appreciation of infrastructure resilience, climate adaptation, and resilience modelling for over $5b of assets that are critical infrastructure for Aotearoa.

What will you bring?

You'll enjoy utilising your experience in data and analytics to inform decision making and your astute analytical and communication skills.  In this role you'll also have an opportunity to grow your facilitation ability, with support from a Senior Risk Advisor.

To be shortlisted your CV, cover letter and career to date will demonstrate: 

• Sound analytical skills and the ability to interrogate and structure data sets
• Understanding or experience of Asset or Risk Management and how data informs decision making
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems and improve information for internal customers
• Well-developed verbal and written communication with proven ability to establish strong working relationships with other teams

• Experience using platforms such as PowerBI, Python, and other analytics and data management software.

 While not essential - general understanding of critical infrastructure would be an advantage.

Join us at Transpower

Aotearoa is powered by the people who work here. Every home, every marae, every electric vehicle, every hospital relies on the electricity we manage and deliver. This is your opportunity to join us on a mission that affects all New Zealanders, every day and long into the future.

With over 28 nationalities, our people provide diverse perspectives, knowledge, and deep and varied experience which they love to share. We work in the office or on-site for a minimum of three days each week, which helps us build and maintain relationships, support learning, deliver outcomes, and sustain our culture. This approach also offers staff the flexibility they need for both work and personal commitments, with adaptable daily start and finish times.

Employee wellbeing is prioritised with a range of health and wellness benefits—check them out here: Staff benefits | Transpower

Next steps

Please review the position description our Transpower Adaptation Plan , the Transpower Climate Statement 2024, and our RCP4 Main Proposal (transpower.co.nz) and apply without delay.

Role closes

Existing eligibility to work in New Zealand is required.