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Clerical - Administrative
Transport Riggers Unit Leader
Clerical - Administrative
#36604
Remote / WFH
Babcock International
Job Description
Transport Riggers Unit Leader
Location: Auckland, NZ, 0624
Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite
Babcock is looking for a Unit Leader to lead the Rigging & Transport team based in Devonport, Auckland.
About the role
Join Babcock NZ in a pivotal leadership role where you’ll take charge of rigging and transport operations supporting complex marine maintenance programmes. Based in Devonport, you’ll lead skilled trade teams, ensuring work is delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards while balancing time and budget expectations.
This is your opportunity to step into a hands-on leadership position where your expertise directly drives operational success. You’ll influence planning, execution, and continuous improvement across workshop and site activities, while developing your team’s capability and maintaining a strong safety culture. If you enjoy leading from the front, solving complex challenges, and making a real impact in a high-performing environment, this role offers both responsibility and progression.
Role Benefits
$51.50 per hour (trade cert essential)
1.5x after 40hrs
2x after 43hrs
Additional benefits
About you
You are an experienced trade professional with strong leadership capability and a passion for delivering safe, high-quality outcomes. You thrive in fast-paced, complex environments where planning, coordination, and decisive problem-solving are critical. You bring proven experience leading teams, managing competing priorities, and improving operational performance. With a practical mindset and strong communication skills, you build trust, develop others, and drive results while maintaining high safety and quality standards in every aspect of your work.
Key Required Skills
Trade-based rigging and/or mechanical expertise
Team leadership and supervision
Planning and workload coordination
Strong health and safety management
Problem solving and decision making under pressure
Stakeholder communication and relationship management
Continuous improvement and process optimisation
IT literacy (work orders, reporting, systems use)
Key Required Qualifications
Level 4 Trade Certificate (Rigging, Cranes or relevant discipline)
Full NZ Driver’s Licence (Class 1 minimum)
Proven experience managing trade teams
Extensive experience in engineering or maintenance environments (marine desirable)
Your future at Babcock – what we offer you
Our work life integration policy brings together leave entitlements which include annual leave, wellbeing leave, paid parental leave, defence reservist leave plus more;
We will provide you with a supportive and engaging environment where you can grow your career, supported by our capability framework plus ongoing access to self-led learning modules through LinkedIn Learning and access to study leave;
You’ll have access to beRewarded which will provide you with endless discounts across retail, health, entertainment, travel and much more, plus novated leasing options and corporate shares plan;
Location: Auckland, NZ, 0624
Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite
Babcock is looking for a Unit Leader to lead the Rigging & Transport team based in Devonport, Auckland.
About the role
Join Babcock NZ in a pivotal leadership role where you’ll take charge of rigging and transport operations supporting complex marine maintenance programmes. Based in Devonport, you’ll lead skilled trade teams, ensuring work is delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards while balancing time and budget expectations.
This is your opportunity to step into a hands-on leadership position where your expertise directly drives operational success. You’ll influence planning, execution, and continuous improvement across workshop and site activities, while developing your team’s capability and maintaining a strong safety culture. If you enjoy leading from the front, solving complex challenges, and making a real impact in a high-performing environment, this role offers both responsibility and progression.
Role Benefits
$51.50 per hour (trade cert essential)
1.5x after 40hrs
2x after 43hrs
Additional benefits
About you
You are an experienced trade professional with strong leadership capability and a passion for delivering safe, high-quality outcomes. You thrive in fast-paced, complex environments where planning, coordination, and decisive problem-solving are critical. You bring proven experience leading teams, managing competing priorities, and improving operational performance. With a practical mindset and strong communication skills, you build trust, develop others, and drive results while maintaining high safety and quality standards in every aspect of your work.
Key Required Skills
Trade-based rigging and/or mechanical expertise
Team leadership and supervision
Planning and workload coordination
Strong health and safety management
Problem solving and decision making under pressure
Stakeholder communication and relationship management
Continuous improvement and process optimisation
IT literacy (work orders, reporting, systems use)
Key Required Qualifications
Level 4 Trade Certificate (Rigging, Cranes or relevant discipline)
Full NZ Driver’s Licence (Class 1 minimum)
Proven experience managing trade teams
Extensive experience in engineering or maintenance environments (marine desirable)
Your future at Babcock – what we offer you
Our work life integration policy brings together leave entitlements which include annual leave, wellbeing leave, paid parental leave, defence reservist leave plus more;
We will provide you with a supportive and engaging environment where you can grow your career, supported by our capability framework plus ongoing access to self-led learning modules through LinkedIn Learning and access to study leave;
You’ll have access to beRewarded which will provide you with endless discounts across retail, health, entertainment, travel and much more, plus novated leasing options and corporate shares plan;
