Delivery Lead at NZ WorkSafe, All Office Locations

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

About Us

What is the most important thing in the world, it is people, it is people, it is people 

He aha te mea nui o tēnei ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.

WorkSafe New Zealand/ Mahi Haumaru Aotearoa, is the primary workplace health and safety regulator – our vision is that everyone who goes to mahi comes home healthy and safe.  Our kaimahi are passionate about our vision and embrace and demonstrate our Mātāpono WorkSafe Values through the mahi they do: 

• Whakakotahi – we're united in a strong purpose 
• Kōrero mai – we engage meaningfully 
• Tiakina mai - we're entrusted with a duty of care. 

We offer a range of benefits including:

• Free life insurance
• Discounts on health insurance and eye care
• Five weeks annual leave
• $400 contribution towards setting up your home workstation
• 15 days sick leave and
• Learning and professional development opportunities

There are a growing number of employee led networks to promote the goals and needs of our diverse communities, such as our Te Rōpū Atuapiko Rainbow Network, Pacific Network, Wāhine Network, Tū Rangatira Māori Network.

About your team / Ko te tīma

Operations provide frontline services that deliver our engagement, enforcement and permit activities. You will join the highly specialised Authorisations and Advisory team in our Operations Group but deliver effective changes to our permit function across Operations where we are responsible for managing and monitoring 15 regimes.  

Your delivery team will be made up of key people from across WorkSafe to ensure that we implement a fit for purpose and consistent application of a new compliance framework, standards, monitoring and supporting processes and systems. 

About the role / Ō te tūranga

We are looking for a Delivery Lead for a fixed term role through to June 2026, to be responsible for the successful delivery of the Permit priority plan.

WorkSafe is responsible for overseeing the rules and regulations and checking that businesses and individuals permitted to undertake this high-risk work meet the safety requirements. 

Our permit plan covers rules and regulations for high-risk work that WorkSafe oversees. We will focus our efforts to make sure permitting requirements are understood, decision making processes are efficient, and regulated safety requirements are met, with emphasis on the areas of highest risk.

Our permit plan sets out how we will: 

• Improve the efficiency, transparency, and quality of the permitting process 
• Clarify expectations for regulated parties 
• Monitor whether this high-risk work is being carried out according to the rules. 

This is a Fixed term role to June 2026. 

What You'll Do/ Ko tōu ake mahi

• Lead delivery of one of WorkSafe's six priority plans
• Ensure the Permit Programme continues to deliver the permit plan according to scope, timelines, budgets, and resources
• Maintain and support programme Governance, escalate appropriately and provide progress reports 
• Lead and enable a team of subject matter and process design experts, supporting them to plan the work in conjunction with business needs and to unblock and address challenges as these arise
• Identify and manage dependencies and risks within our constraints 
• Ensure that our decision makers have the right information and can make the right decisions at the right time 
• Communicate confidently with internal and external stakeholders and build great working relationships
• Incorporate a te ao Māori approach throughout the delivery, taking particular care around engagement with stakeholders, and alignment with commitments made to various stakeholder groups
• Be flexible and able to navigate in a changing environment 

What You'll Bring / Ko ngā pukenga ōu

• Proven experience in successfully delivering change projects/programmes In an Agile, hybrid-Agile or time-boxed waterfall environment
• Experience leading delivery teams, including within evolving and ambiguous environments
• A strong understanding of the role of delivery leadership vs. business ownership and the ability to ensure strong alignment and connection through building effective, trusted relationships. 
• Demonstrates commitment to te ao Māori
• Experience working with and producing project plans, timelines and schedules, ensuring alignment with our organisational strategy.
• Excellent communication, planning and influencing skills with proven ability to build strong working relationships.  
• Knowledge of the Government decision-making and operating procedures.   
• A project or programme management qualification.  

With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive.

Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi. 

Salary range / Awhe utu

As part of our remuneration framework the full salary range for the position is from $127,488 to $168,609.  Note: KiwiSaver/SSRSS employer contribution is additional to/on top of your base salary.

How to apply / Me pēhea te tono

Click the apply link, complete an application form and submit a copy of your CV and cover letter.

For further information please contact careers@worksafe.govt.nz with any queries, or to find out more about working for us, go to Careers | WorkSafe.

WorkSafe Mahi Haumaru is an equal opportunity employer.  We value diversity and welcome and encourage applicants from all walks of life.  We value the experience your point of difference could bring to us.

Please let us know if there is any support we can provide to ensure the recruitment process is accessible to you. We look forward to reviewing your application and getting to know more about you.

Applications close on Sunday 18 May 2025.