Building Engineering Manager

Tēnei tūranga – About the role

The Building Performance and Engineering team is responsible for regulatory stewardship of the Building Code. This includes Setting and maintaining the Building Code performance requirements, developing means-of-compliance documents, and development of technical guidance. This team also provides technical advice in support of the wider Building System work programme and assists with enquiries and investigations into systemic issues affecting building performance.

Within the wider team, the Engineering team take primary responsibility for managing processes to develop or review the performance requirements in the Building Code and ensuring supporting documentation are continuously improved to remain fit for purpose, such as Acceptable Solutions and Verification Methods.

The Engineering Manager is a regulatory leadership and management position in the Building Performance and Engineering team. The Engineering Manager will bring their leadership understanding and perspective to work in partnership with other managers and team members and is responsible for building and enhancing the overall capability of the team to ensure quality and consistency of advice and practices in relation to the team’s work.

Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role

Personal specifications

• Tertiary qualification in engineering.
• Preferred operational experience with regulatory frameworks and levers.
• Extensive engineering particularly in the structural, fire or geotechnical areas.
• Experience at a senior level in providing technical advice to other senior level staff and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead, develop and manage a team.
• Financial or budget management experience.
• Knowledge and understanding of the machinery of Government and relevant operating procedures and policies and decision-making processes that apply within the State Sector.
• Ability to develop and deliver a teamwork plan, including enabling tools and processes.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining an environment focused on continuous improvement to enhance organisational performance.
• Can communicate and persuade using a range of oral, written, and visual mediums in diverse situations.
• Ability to quickly identify, establish, and build strong working relationships.
• Proven ability to develop trust and credibility with senior management and stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to coach and mentor others by sharing their own experience and helping to challenge thinking.
• Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

Qualifications

• A relevant tertiary qualification.

Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables

Critical areas of success

The Engineering Manager will be required to deliver results in the following areas:

• Provide technical leadership and advice to the Branch and wider Group and develop understanding of current and future engineering and design trends, and how these may impact building and construction quality.
• Developing and oversight of system and process for commissioning of quality technical advice from third parties.
• Ensuring the team provides technical expertise to the Branch and Group in relation to core life safety elements such as fire, structure and geotechnical.
• Ensure changes in the internal or external environment are meeting the needs of the industry and sector.
• Manage the means of building performance so it is well constructed, timely, and accurate and identifies risks opportunities and solutions.
• Provision of technical review and advice in emergency situations.
• Proactively manage stakeholder relationships.
• Contribute to sector-wide strategy development and implementation in collaboration with Policy teams and external partners, demonstrating leadership where required.
• Build and maintain effective relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders including government agencies, NGOs, delivery partners and stakeholders across the building sector.
• Ensure projects are well managed, resourced and any quality or service issues are addressed.
• Contribute to the development of a customer focused culture across the business unit.

General management

• Develops teamwork programme, priorities, and strategy with input from team and leadership.
• Manages multiple complex projects concurrently using planning and management techniques to effectively carry out the agreed policy work, within the resources available.
• Participates in, chairs, and leverages advisory groups and governance groups to drive the work programme agenda and facilitate timely decision making.
• Manage expenditure and resources in line with approved guidelines, budget, deadlines, and reporting requirements, with a focus on driving cost effectiveness in the Ministry.
• Effectively and consistently identify and manage risk.
• Aligns team’s work programmes with MBIE’s strategic direction and other Groups’ work programmes.
• Manages staff in the team including recruitment, performance, development, safety, and well-being.

People leadership

• Leads the team and understands and utilises the capability of team members to deliver high quality project outputs.
• Provides a sense of vision and leadership that engages and motivates others participate and make things happen.
• Establishes clear accountabilities, expectations and performance standards with direct reports and ensures regular performance management and development occurs.
• Monitors individual and team performance to ensure that performance targets are met (including pro-actively identifying and addressing any issues in a timely manner).
• Anticipates future capability needs in resources, identifies gaps in capability and addresses these gaps through targeted recruitment and development or other actions.
• Coaches, mentors, and develops staff to meet the needs of MBIE now and in the future.
• Models exemplary management and leadership behaviours, and State Sector ethics and values.
• Fosters an open, collaborative environment that encourages quality, innovation, on-going learning, and knowledge sharing.

Relationship management

• Effectively influences, and contributes to an authorising environment, through building and maintaining enduring relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Represents whole-of-Ministry views and protect its reputation in external interactions.
• Builds strategic alliances with key government and non-government representatives to ensure MBIE’s views are influential in their decision-making.
• Test the effectiveness of stakeholder relationships using a range of appropriate measures and processes (including stakeholder feedback).

Wellbeing, health and safety

• Displays commitment through actively supporting all safety and wellbeing initiatives.
• Ensures own and others' safety at all times.
• Complies with relevant safety and wellbeing policies, procedures, safe systems of work and event reporting.
• Reports all incidents/accidents, including near misses in a timely fashion.
• Is involved in health and safety through participation and consultation.

Tō tūranga i roto i te Manatū – Your place in the Ministry

The Building Engineering Manager position reports into the Manager, Building Performance and Engineering within the Building System Performance branch. The branch sits within the Building Resources and Markets group.

More information about MBIE's structure

Ngā Kawenga Ārahitanga – Leadership Expectations

At MBIE our leadership expectations provide consistent language for how we expect our leaders to lead at MBIE. They are supported by our values, and the Public Sector leadership capabilities as described in the Leadership Success Profile (LSP).

Leadership Expectations - Ngā Kawenga Ārahitanga (MBIE)

Lead by example - Whakatinana hei tauira
Enable our people - Whakaāhei ō tātou tangata
Deliver what matters - Whakatutuki ngā manako

Matatautanga – Competencies (Leadership Success Profile)

The Leadership Success Profile (LSP) is a leadership capability framework, developed by the New Zealand public sector for the New Zealand public sector. It creates a common language for leadership and establishes what great leadership looks like. You can look at the twelve underpinning capabilities and four leadership characters here: Leadership Success Profile | Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission(external link)

To mātou aronga – What we do for Aotearoa New Zealand

Hīkina Whakatutuki is the te reo Māori name for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Hīkina means to uplift. Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful. Our name speaks to our purpose, Grow New Zealand for All.

To Grow New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi. Based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, we are committed to upholding authentic partnerships with Māori.

As agile public service leaders, we use our breadth and experience to navigate the ever-changing world. We are service providers, policy makers, investors and regulators. We engage with diverse communities, businesses and regions. Our work touches on the daily lives of New Zealanders. We grow opportunities (Puāwai), guard and protect (Kaihāpai) and innovate and navigate towards a better future (Auaha).

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

As an agency of the public service, MBIE has a responsibility to contribute to the Crown meeting its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti). Meeting our commitment to Te Tiriti will contribute towards us realising the overall aims of Te Ara Amiorangi – Our Path, Our Direction, and achieve the outcome of Growing New Zealand for All. The principles of Te Tiriti - including partnership, good faith, and active protection – are at the core of our work. MBIE is committed to delivering on our obligations as a Treaty partner with authenticity and integrity and to enable Māori interests. We are committed to ensuring that MBIE is well placed to meet our obligations under the Public Service Act 2020 (Te Ao Tūmatanui) to support the Crown in strengthening the Māori/Crown Relationship under the Treaty and to build MBIE’s capability, capacity and cultural intelligence to deliver this.

Mahi i roto i te Ratonga Tūmatanui – Working in the public service

Ka mahitahi mātou o te ratonga tūmatanui kia hei painga mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa i āianei, ā, hei ngā rā ki tua hoki. He kawenga tino whaitake tā mātou hei tautoko i te Karauna i runga i āna hononga ki a ngāi Māori i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautoko mātou i te kāwanatanga manapori. Ka whakakotahingia mātou e te wairua whakarato ki ō mātou hapori, ā, e arahina ana mātou e ngā mātāpono me ngā tikanga matua o te ratonga tūmatanui i roto i ā mātou mahi.

In the public service we work collectively to make a meaningful difference for New Zealanders now and in the future. We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi. We support democratic government. We are unified by a spirit of service to our communities and guided by the core principles and values of the public service in our work.

What does it mean to work in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public Service?(external link) — Te Kawa Mataaho The Public Service Commission