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General Information

Job Type
Permanent
Category
Construction/Technical
Business
Higgins
Location
Hamilton
Job Reference
41657
Posted Date
06-Oct-2025
Closing Date
05-Nov-2025

Description

The Higgins Green Team in Waikato have an awesome opportunity for a Wirtgen Stabiliser Operator to join the Stabilising crew.

  • Grow and develop in a supportive team who treat each other like whanau
  • Competitive hourly rate + guaranteed 40 hours per week 
  • Upskill and gain further licences if required 
  • Hard work is recognised - build a career and not just do a job 
  • Access to educational funds for you and your children 
  • Funding for school holiday programmes and tutoring for your children 
  • Z fuel discounts including a monthly free pie and coffee
  • Market-leading parental leave policy 

As part of our Stabilising crew, your role will be to operate and manage the Wirtgen Stabiliser / Cold recycler ensuring accurate and high-quality work.

What you’ll bring to the role
  • Experience as a Wirtgen Operator 
  • Class 4 with WTR 
  • Dangerous Goods – ideal we can put you through that if needed 
  • A safety-first attitude – for yourself and the public 
  • Team player 
  • Flexible, committed and reliable – will turn up rain or shine 
  • Passion for our industry and the willingness to work hard and learn 

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 dependents.

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.