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3 weeks ago
Estimator - Connections
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Company information
- Company
- owned
- Location
- New Zealand, North Island, Auckland, Rodney, Silverdale New Zealand
- Posted
- 3 weeks ago
Job description
• Based in Silverdale.
• Comprehensive Health Insurance.
• Life & Disability Cover
• Generous KiwiSaver Contributions.
• Enhanced Parental Leave.
• Birthday Leave.
• Long Service Rewards.
• Career Advancement Opportunities.
• Be a part of a Great Team.
• Full-time, permanent contract with a minimum of 40 hours guaranteed per week
• Monday – Friday
About the Role
Looking for your next big opportunity? We’ve got two exciting Connections Estimator roles available! In this position, you’ll get to carry out estimating services, to support the company's business plan and achieve Omexom’s market share of work at a planned profit margin or better, making a real impact.
- Scoping overhead distribution lines (Low Voltage and High Voltage up to 11kV), and coming up with solutions for providing a point of supply to Customers. Note that experience and knowledge in this area are vital.
- Meet with Customers and discuss their requirements for a point of supply
- Preparing tender/quotations to customers with client schedules and supplementary information, submitting tender documents and negotiating contracts prior to award.
- Collating quotes from suppliers and subcontractors.
- Compiling detailed requirements for tender: labour rates, project management, supervision, plant and equipment, preliminary and general, margin, preparing tags and clarifications.
- Ensuring that quotes are completed within agreed timeframes and within budgeted expenditure.
- Coordinating with customers, Omexom field staff, and sub-contractors to ensure project success.
- Compiling complete work packages, which include design notes, working drawings, specifications, material requirements, work instructions, resource requirements, work schedules, and all necessary approvals.
- Ensuring all documentation required by customers is completed, e.g., as-built drawings, asset records.
- Auditing works to ensure compliance with contract documents, design and construction standards, acts, regulations and network operating standards, industry standards, and safety requirements.
Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills Required
- Sound knowledge of Overhead and underground experience in the electrical distribution network for up to 11kV, preferably with field experience
- Relevant Distribution Network experience.
- Computer literacy, in particular experience with word processing, spreadsheets, databases and scheduling software packages.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills.
- Practical knowledge of Vector and Omexom design and engineering standards, and the ability to work within them.
- Solid problem-solving capabilities.
- Current NZEC Practising Licence
- Experience in reading, understanding, and reviewing single line drawings and control schematics
- Knowledge of electrical regulations, industry requirements, contracting procedures.
Who are we?
As the global energy landscape continues to evolve, Omexom is supporting New Zealand's transition toward a cleaner, more sustainable energy future. We work alongside partners across the energy ecosystem to accelerate progress and enable meaningful decarbonisation.
Omexom New Zealand brings the global scale, innovation, and proven expertise of a global leader to every local project. We collaborate with those who produce, transform and transport electricity and energy, including network owners and local authorities, to operate, build and maintain critical infrastructure. Our established processes ensure reliability and safety at scale, while longstanding relationships and on-the-ground experience make us trusted partners to work with.
We're here to help New Zealand build smarter, more efficient and resilient energy networks that will support community and industry for generations to come.
How to apply
If you like the sound of what we’re offering and think you are the right person for the job, we’d love to hear from you. Hit the 'apply' button below. Applications close on 3 October 2026.
Please note, that only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.
According to the Harvard Business Review, men typically apply for jobs when they meet only 60% of the qualifications, whereas women and individuals from underrepresented groups usually apply only if they meet all the criteria. We're not just about checking boxes, so if you believe you have the skills but don't meet every requirement listed, please reach out if you would like to find out more, we'd love to talk with you.
Come join our amazing team and be a part of the pioneers in energy transition.
Required skills
- industry
- energy transition
- full-time
- regulations
- health insurance
- safety
- documentation
- electricity
- subcontractors
- project management
- problem-solving
- new zealand
- word processing
- spreadsheets
- databases
- reliability
- organisational skills
- supervision
- life insurance
- time management
- high voltage
- innovation
- customers
- energy
- permanent contract
- industry standards
- suppliers
- tender
- tender documents
- specifications
- electrical regulations
- birthday leave
- estimator
- community
- low voltage
- computer literacy
- parental leave
- career advancement
- quotations
- global scale
- business plan
- market share
- scheduling software
- work instructions
- critical infrastructure
- local authorities
- construction standards
- silverdale
- vector
- kiwisaver
- connections
- field experience
- work schedules
- safety requirements
- margin
- working drawings
- tags
- contract documents
- clarifications
- material requirements
- approvals
- negotiating contracts
- as-built drawings
- plant and equipment
- decarbonisation
- acts
- 40 hours
- field staff
- apply
- monday – friday
- disability cover
- industry requirements
- global leader
- work packages
- resource requirements
- profit margin
- right to live and work in new zealand
- sustainable energy future
- omexom
- overhead distribution lines
- asset records
- control schematics
- long service rewards
- 11kv
- energy landscape
- harvard business review
- design notes
- energy ecosystem
- labour rates
- single line drawings
- estimating services
- point of supply
- client schedules
- supplementary information
- preliminary and general
- agreed timeframes
- budgeted expenditure
- auditing works
- network operating standards
- underground experience
- electrical distribution network
- distribution network experience
- omexom design standards
- omexom engineering standards
- nzec practising licence
- contracting procedures
- local project
- network owners
- resilient energy networks
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