Asset Inspector - Eastern Bay of Plenty
We’re looking for a seasoned trade professional with a current NZ Electrical Practising Licence to take on a field-based role!
Get Off the Tools – But Not Out of the Field
Asset Inspector | Eastern Bay of Plenty
If you’ve got the ticket (EWRB), know your way around a network, and still enjoy working outdoors without climbing every pole — we want to talk.
We’re looking for a seasoned trade professional with a current NZ Electrical Practising Licence to take on a field-based role that blends technical inspections, risk assessments, digital reporting, and relationship management. You’ll play a key part in keeping our network safe, reliable, and future-ready.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Conducting cyclic inspections and testing across a wide range of distribution assets — overhead, underground, substations and more
- Identifying defects and risks, capturing data accurately with mobile devices
- Completing on-site minor repairs where needed
- Supporting asset audits, GPS location, and cable/circuit identification
- Assisting in quality assurance, safety audits, and post-construction verification
- Collaborating with internal teams, contractors, landowners, and customers
What You Bring:
- NZ Electrical Practising Licence and a background in electricity distribution
- Solid understanding of industry regulations, safety procedures, and testing methods
- Comfortable using GIS tools, tablets, and digital data systems (or open to learning)
- Strong judgement on asset condition and confident working independently in the field
- A self-starting, customer-minded approach — able to represent the business well on-site
You’ll be trusted to work autonomously, backed by a team that values your input, and encouraged to contribute to continual improvement across safety, asset management, and field processes. You’ll also help shape frameworks that impact long-term risk and reliability — not just tick boxes.
Why Make the Move?
- No toolshed politics – just a tight team that knows their stuff
- Smart, structured work – less firefighting, more foresight
- Based in the beautiful Eastern Bay of Plenty – where your downtime matters too
- Stability – this is a permanent, essential service role with growth potential
Sound like your kind of challenge? Apply now and we’ll be in touch. All conversations are confidential.
- Locations
- Whakatane
Whakatane
Why work with Paragon? 💎
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True Partnerships, we're not about transactional relationships 🤝
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Proven success recruiting in the contact-centre industry 📞
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Solutions built for your business, not others
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Upholding the businesses and your candidates privacy 🔒
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We use technology to back our processes. Therefore full transparency is assured 🖥️📱💻
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We provide guidance to your hiring managers!
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A unique cost-model, we're not just about the big fee at the end 💰
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We have over 70 years of joint expertise to find you the best and hardest to entice talent across the globe
Partnering with Paragon
As a small business we’re agile and adaptable to meet the expectations of our clients, and our candidates.
Our ethics, honesty, transparency and hands-on approach means we’re always contactable, in tune with what our candidates and clients require and provide updates and advice, along the recruitment journey.
We are inclusive, love having fun and a laugh, we're inquisitive about you as a candidate, and your business as a client, so we ask loads of questions so we can help you as best as we can!
We don’t take ourselves too seriously but take finding your next dream job, as seriously as anything!
At the same time, we are very committed to attracting the best talent for your business, and ensuring your brand speaks volumes for potential employees to join your team.
Check out the candidate journey we take our candidates on, to be their best!
About Paragon Recruitment Ltd
What is a Paragon?
Paragon (n): A person or thing viewed as a model of excellence.
Imagine a 100-carat diamond, Invaluable. Precise. Flawless.
These are the values that drive Paragon. When it comes to recruitment, our mission is to find you that diamond in the rough.
Paragon represents Excellence in Recruitment & HR.
We take the hassle out of recruitment; Using a precise method that focuses on quality to deliver invaluable candidates for our clients.