Water and wastewater utility infrastructure for Auckland's 1.7 million residents
Watercare operates a $9 billion asset base delivering drinking water, wastewater treatment, and infrastructure planning for Auckland. The tech stack—Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, Terraform—reflects a data-heavy engineering organization building asset management and compliance systems. Hiring is weighted toward senior engineers and operations staff, with active recruitment in capital upgrade programmes and treatment plant modernization.
Watercare Services is a government-owned utility providing drinking water supply, wastewater collection and treatment, and infrastructure asset management for Auckland, New Zealand. The organization serves 1.7 million residents and operates critical treatment facilities using advanced chemical-free wastewater processes. Core responsibilities include treating drinking water to municipal standards, managing wastewater without chemical discharge, and planning $600 million-plus capital upgrade programmes and asset lifecycle initiatives. The workforce is split between engineering, operations, and construction teams managing treatment plants, network renewal, and long-term infrastructure resilience against climate and growth pressures.
Watercare runs Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, and Terraform for data and infrastructure. Java, Python, SQL, Docker, Git, Azure DevOps, and Jira support development. Oracle Primavera and Microsoft Project handle project management; LIMS manages lab compliance.
Watercare is executing capital upgrade programmes, modernizing water and wastewater treatment plants, completing network renewals, and launching multi-hundred-million-dollar wastewater projects. Asset management plan development and climate-resilient infrastructure are current priorities.
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