Project Manager (intermediate to senior) - Christchurch, Waitaki, Lakes District or Wellington

Company Description

**Mai te hiku ki te taurapa, whitikina e te ra

From the tail of the fish to the tail of the waka, shines the sun**

Meridian is 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 national role, based in Christchurch, Twizel, the Lakes District, or Wellington, is critical to delivering projects and project work packages across our Generation business. A key focus of the role is working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, coordinating requirements between the project, engineering and site teams, procurement, commercial, contractors, suppliers, internal strategic, asset custodians, and operators.

We’re looking for candidates with a strong background in end-to-end project execution. This includes:

Managing high value, complex projects and/or programmes of smaller assets or facilities projects and ensuring that planning, estimating, scheduling, resourcing and management of projects and work packages is undertaken and delivered to the agreed scope, quality, timeline and budget constraints.

Building constructive relationships with internal parties, such as Engineering and Maintenance teams, and external vendors and local Iwi, to ensure all project streams work together collaboratively to deliver the required outcomes in terms of quality, scope, time, and budget;

Undertaking contract tender and award which are compliant with the team and Meridian commercial requirements.

Ensuring contracts are administered in a manner that ensures the provisions of the contract remain fully enforceable.

Ngā painga ki a mātou \| What we can offer!

We Value Work/life Balance, So Our 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

Qualifications

We’re looking for someone with formal Project Management qualifications as well as a comprehensive understanding of project management practices, and proven success in complex multi-disciplined projects involving civil, mechanical and/or electrical engineering construction works. Other key skills include:

Ideally, a technical and/ or engineering background, but not essential.

Experience managing large, complex projects.

Previous experience in effective management of health and safety risks.

Experience with project management IT applications including Microsoft Office, in particular MSP, Excel, Word.

Proven experience in managing contractors and/or coordinating similar complex design and integration projects.

Tono mai ināianei tonu \| Apply now

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!

We encourage you to apply for this role — even if you don’t meet every requirement. At Meridian, we value diverse perspectives and believe that potential, passion, and a willingness to grow are really important. If you’re excited about this opportunity, we’d love to hear from you!

To view the full Position Description, please click here.

Advertising closes 9:00am, Friday 30 January 2026 (please note this is subject to change)

He aha koe i hono mai ai ki a mātou? \| Why join us?

We help reduce carbon emissions and support communities in doing the same, supplying electricity to over 400,000 homes, businesses, and farms through Meridian and Powershop.

At Meridian, we embrace diversity and inclusion, knowing that different perspectives make us stronger. We encourage everyone to bring their whole selves to work, creating a welcoming and empowering environment for all.

Be gutsy, be in the waka, and be a good human – our three principles. We work hard and celebrate connection through quizzes, morning teas, and cultural events, both in person and virtually.

Sustainability is in our DNA. We proudly support KidsCan and Kākāpō Recovery and work side-by-side with our generation communities.

If you’ve got any questions, please email [email protected]. We're committed to becoming more accessible and providing support if needed. Please get in touch if there are parts of our process you would like assistance with (process found here meridianenergy.co.nz/careers), we’re more than happy to help.