Careers

Why work for us?

Selwyn Water is focused on delivering safe, reliable and affordable drinking water and wastewater services for our communities - now and into the future.

We are seeking team members who are committed to delivering successful outcomes, bring specialist expertise, and want to help build resilient, sustainable water services for a fast-growing district.

You will contribute to work that protects public health, supports community growth, strengthens infrastructure resilience, and helps shape the future of water services in Selwyn.

Our offices are based in Rolleston, at the heart of one of New Zealand’s fastest-growing districts.

We offer a range of staff benefits to permanent employees, supporting wellbeing, development and work-life balance.

If you have any questions about working at Selwyn Water, please email our team, careers@selwynwater.co.nz 

Current vacancies

People & Capability Lead

This is an opportunity to join our Organisational Enablement Group, to deliver practical, responsive and trusted generalist HR advice and support to leaders and employees across the full employee lifecycle.

For more information or to apply click here.

General Counsel

Reporting to the Director Organisational Enablement, the General Counsel is Selwyn Water's chief legal officer and a key member of the Organisational Enablement Group. This role provides strategic legal leadership across the organisation and serves as the principal legal advisor to the Chief Executive, Executive Team and Board.

For more information or to apply click here.

Infrastructure Development Engineer

Join our Infrastructure Development team and help shape the water infrastructure needed to support growth across Waikirikiri Selwyn. This role provides the opportunity to contribute to the planning, review and delivery of key drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects that will serve our communities for generations to come.

For more information or to apply click here.

Manager Infrastructure Development Engineering

Lead our Infrastructure Development Engineering team and play a key role in planning and delivering the water infrastructure that supports one of New Zealand's fastest-growing districts. This leadership position provides strategic direction, technical oversight and collaboration across a range of infrastructure development projects and stakeholders.

For more information or to apply click here.

Our values

Our values have been created by our people, for our people.

They represent the ways we need to work and behave, to successfully deliver on our desired strategic outcomes.

• Stewardship: Adopting a servant’s heart for our precious water systems – caring for them daily, improving them continuously, and doing everything we can to support the sacred duty of the guardians, who hold water in trust for future generations.
• Conviction: Holding firm to what matters – even when it’s not easy, popular, or fast. Making decisions with purpose, daring to do things differently, and staying the course toward a water future we may never see – but deeply believe in.
• Integrity: Having the courage to do what’s right, not what’s easy – even when no one’s watching. Always putting the needs of water, and the people it serves, above politics or pressure.
• Collaboration: Working alongside iwi, communities, and experts – listening, respecting knowledge, sharing responsibility, and staying open to what others see. Because no-one can do this alone.
• Transparency: Earning trust, the only way that matters – through action. By sharing what we know, doing what we say we will, showing what we’re doing, and owning what we haven’t yet got right.

Download a copy of our values here.