Senior Environmental Monitoring Officer

Richmond, New Zealand

Reference: 6806771

Richmond, New Zealand

  • Help make a difference in our community and environment
  • Work in the naturally beautiful environment that surrounds Richmond, Motueka, Takaka and Murchison
  • Join a team that values great people and culture.

Great Job & People:

Our Senior Environmental Monitoring Officer is actively involved in the design, construction, and maintenance of monitoring sites, plus operate a wide variety of technology including data loggers, remote control boats and drones to maintain the environmental monitoring network. The wider team collects water quality samples and monitors ecology in rivers and groundwater.

You will work as part of a skilled technical field team, using initiative and drive to help achieve team outcomes. You will lead network performance improvement and offer senior technical advice to a three-year project to upgrade the resilience of the flood monitoring network which is in its early planning stages. In doing so you'll share your advanced technical experience with those in earlier stages of their monitoring careers.

You will be skilled in maintaining and developing strong relationships with stakeholders, work with other teams accross the Environmental Science Group and support Council's efforts in effective resource management, water allocation, engineering design and flood warning. As a Senior member of the team, you will actively contribute to creating and maintaining a data archive that is used heavily by the local community as well as for national and international studies.

While you will spend time travelling the rivers, mountains and coastline of the district that boasts high sunshine hours, there will also be an equal amount of office-based work. The role ensures instruments meet calibration, data is processed for quality assurance and contributes to the environmental data archive. You will also have the opportunity to be involved in data analysis and maintaining data telemetry systems.

About you:

You will have a minimum of five years hydrology experience including the NZ Diploma in Field Hydrology or be able to demonstrate equivalent training and experience. You will have skills to manage the design, construction and operation of various monitoring assets.

We are looking for a person who enjoys working with technology and diagnosing and resolving technical problems, enjoys working outdoors in a variety of environments and terrains (at times our environment can be physically demanding). You'll also need to be a confident swimmer and have a reasonable level of fitness too, will like working autonomously and are happy to share ideas with and work in a team.

Great perks:

Climate and lifestyle are some of the major factors for people choosing to live and work in the Tasman District. If you love the great outdoors, the Tasman District is next to a stunning collection of national parks, along with plenty of other outdoor action, and has great wines, craft beer and food - the list of attractions is immense.

Our benefits package is unique - you customise it to your preferences to include a combination of extra leave, cash payout, health insurance and additional superannuation contributions. Alongside health insurance and a day off on your birthday too! Relocation assistance can be arranged for the successful applicant if based outside the region.

Remuneration is appropriate to the level of competency, with alternatively an Environmental Monitoring Officer role possible.

Are you interested?

We welcome applicants who may not meet all the listed requirements but demonstrate a willingness to learn and hold transferrable skills from a relevant field. We value potential and are committed to fostering growth within our team. Apply today!

Applications Close: 12 Oct 2025

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What to expect after you apply

Once the vacancy closes you'll be contacted within 7 days as to whether or not your application has been successful.  If you've been shortlisted for an interview, you'll be contacted by one of the People & Wellbeing team to arrange a time to come in and meet with some of the team. 

We typically only do one interview, however depending on the seniority of the role or the role itself, we sometimes require two interviews.  For mid-senior level and team leader/manager roles, you may also be required to undertake psychometric testing.

In your interview, there will be a member of the People & Wellbeing team, the Hiring Manager and either their Manager or one of the senior member's of their team.  Our interview questions are predominantly behavioural and skills-based.

Summer Student Internships

Every year we employ a number of Summer Students across the Council to work for a period of 12-16 weeks over the summer months (mid-November to February). This is a great opportunity to gain work experience in your field of study, advertising begins early July, All applications are to be sumbitted via our website in July.

We typically have vacancies in Engineering, Environmental Information (Hydrology, Resource Science and Biosecurity), Information Services and Regulatory (Compliance Monitoring).

If you're an Engineering student interested in a Rivers Engineering career/Summer Student position, check out this website for more information - Careers | Resilient River Communities - Careers | Resilient River Communities (resilientrivers.nz).