- Lead with purpose in a newly created strategic role.
- Shape the Future of Catchment and Floodplain Management
- Pay off your mortgage 20 years quicker than you would in Auckland!

This is a rare opportunity to lead strategy and delivery at the intersection of infrastructure, floodplain design, and environmental management. A brand-new leadership role, reporting directly to an executive and sitting on the organisation’s leadership team.

Why Apply?

• Strategic Scope: Lead a multidisciplinary team delivering flood management, asset planning, and environmental programmes.
• Leadership Impact: Shape major projects while mentoring a team of 12.
• Your Background: Engineering, infrastructure, environmental science – if you're a strong communicator and leader, we want to hear from you.
• Salary: $140,000–$150,000+ depending on experience.
• Package Includes: 6 weeks annual leave, WFH policy, flexible hours (4-day week available), 37.5-hour week, income protection, relocation support
• Affordable Lifestyle: Based in Southland, where nature, space, and balance come easy. Average house price in Invercargill is just over $500K, making mortgage free ownership far more achievable than other regions.

About the Role

You’ll manage the delivery and oversight of technical and strategic catchment programmes. While your portfolio includes engineering design, asset management, and flood risk planning, your real strength will lie in how you lead people and drive results.
This role requires high-level thinking—linking the “big picture” with practical delivery—and working across teams to align technical expertise with community outcomes.

What You’ll Bring

• A track record of leading high-performing teams
• Confidence in stakeholder engagement and relationship-building
• Ability to work across disciplines to align strategy and delivery
• Strength in programme oversight, risk management, and systems thinking
• A strong sense of professional integrity and purpose
• Must be a NZ resident in order to apply

About the Organisation

Working alongside communities to improve water quality, biodiversity, land management and climate resilience. You'll join a values-led organisation with a collaborative culture and strong support for professional growth.

Contact Ben Lapworth for more information on this role to explore if this is the position for you ben@84recruitment.co.nz 022 183 4944