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General Information

Job Type
Permanent
Category
Administration
Business
Higgins
Location
Wairarapa
Job Reference
41832
Posted Date
04-Nov-2025
Closing Date
02-Dec-2025

Description

About the Role

Are you ready to be part of a small, passionate team that works well together and knows how to balance fun and delivering great results?  In this role you will support our Project Management team(s) by providing accounts and administrative support.  As part of a close-knit team, you will also lend support to the wider team as required. Duties include:
  • Reception and front-of-house customer service
  • Working collaboratively with the Project Management team(s)
  • Maintaining accurate records and systems
  • Other general office administration 


What you’ll bring to the role
  • Proven experience in an administrative role with a financial / contracts focus
  • Civil construction industry experience would be a bonus!
  • Competent with Microsoft Excel and Word
  • Versatility – be effective and efficient
  • JDE experience would be a bonus
  • Self-motivated and pro-active
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills


This is a permanent Part-Time role – working 32 ½ hours per week. We require someone to be available until 4pm to monitor our reception desk. 


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

We are actively looking to fill this role and encourage your early application. Applications are reviewed regularly, and we reserve the right to remove the advertisement before the advertised closing date.

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.