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General Information

Job Type
Permanent
Category
Road Surfacing
Business
Higgins
Location
Bay of Plenty
Job Reference
39838
Posted Date
23-Apr-2025
Closing Date
22-May-2025

Description

The Higgins Tauranga team have an opportunity for an Asphalt Paving Supervisor to join the Surfacing division. 

Reporting to the Surfacing Manager, you will be actively involved in the planning and supervising the safe successful day-to-day activities of a paving crew. You will have the ability to lead and motivate your team of between 8-12 members and will be involved in large resurfacing projects, State Highway works, site works and sub-divisions. 

Come join the Green Team:
  • Competitive Salary + Company vehicle 
  • Leadership opportunity
  • Career development – opportunities to grow your career at Higgins and the wider Fletcher Building group of businesses
  • Access to Fletchers Building Benefits Programme, including: 
    • A market-leading parental leave policy to ensure employees are well supported throughout one of life’s most significant events
    • FB employee share scheme, welfare & educational funds – including funding towards School Holiday Programmes & tutoring for children
    • A significant portfolio of retail benefits across major NZ businesses such as ANZ, Z energy, PlaceMakers, Mico and Samsung.

What you’ll bring to the role:
  • 5+ years technical experience in planning and delivering a variety of asphalt and compaction methodologies 
  • Experience with plant and people resourcing, managing utilisation and plant costs 
  • The ability to lead, motivate and influence your team
  • Full clean Class 1 New Zealand Driver’s License – Class 2 and WTR beneficial
  • Excellent communications skills both verbal and written and a person who can build long standing relationships
  • Self-motivation, a positive attitude and the ability to think for yourself
  • Be a reliable, honest and flexible team-player 
  • A strong focus on health and safety not only for yourself, your team but also the public.

Higgins is a leading roading and civil infrastructure company in New Zealand. We are on a dynamic growth path with people at the heart of what we do every day. We offer a great working environment, competitive hourly rate, subsidised medical insurance and subsidised education and training for you and your dependants.

Higgins is committed to a drug-free workplace. The successful applicant will be required to pass pre-employment drug and alcohol testing along with a health check – you’ll need to be fit for work!

Building better roads for safer journeys – He pai ake te hanga o ngā rori, kia haumaru ai ngā haerenga

Research shows that females and minority groups don’t always apply for roles unless they match 100% of the requirements. So, if this role is of interest but you feel you don’t quite fit, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are enriched by many nationalities, languages, religions, customs, and lifestyles. We are proud of our diversity and see it as one of the things that make us better together.