Senior Mechanical Engineer - Geothermal

Te āhua o te tūranga - The nature of the role
As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you’ll take a lead role in supporting Contact’s geothermal fleet, partnering closely with operations, projects, and leadership teams. You’ll provide trusted engineering advice, guide decision‑making, and help ensure our assets perform safely and reliably across their full lifecycle. This is a role where your experience genuinely matters, from routine plant outages through to complex improvement and investment projects.
You’ll also act as a discipline leader and subject matter expert within your specialty, mentoring engineers, shaping standards and processes, and lifting capability across the wider Generation and Trading group. Ngā mahi will range from on site hands‑on technical problem solving to influencing strategy, always with a focus on continuous improvement and putting safety, people, and performance first.
Ko wai koe - About you
You’re an experienced mechanical engineer who enjoys working with complex assets and even more complex problems. You’re confident offering clear, candid technical advice, but you’re also thoughtful about how decisions land across a wider business. You build strong relationships naturally and enjoy helping others grow, whether that’s through mentoring, coaching, or simply sharing what you’ve learned along the way.
To thrive in this role, there are a few essentials. You’ll need an engineering degree or equivalent qualification and solid experience in power generation or heavy industry, ideally around ten years or more. Deep expertise in a mechanical discipline such as heavy rotating equipment, pressure parts, or functional safety is important, along with comfort working within regulated environments and managing asset integrity and risk.
There are also some things that would be great, but not mandatory. Professional registration, project or contract management experience, or exposure to financial modelling and business cases would all be valuable. If your background doesn’t tick every box, but you’re curious, values‑led, keen to learn, and excited by renewable energy, we’d still love to hear from you. He waka eke noa, we’re all in this together.

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
Hybrid