Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) is a great place to work, offering diversity and a rewarding career opportunity. Our people are dedicated and driven to work towards our vision of ensuring our seas are safe, secure and clean, on behalf of all New Zealanders.

We are now recruiting a Maritime Officer to join our Compliance team. Based in Maritime New Zealand’s office in Nelson or Christchurch, you will work closely with the maritime community and with MNZ staff across the country. As a front line staff member you will help to develop and maintain the national safety, security and environmental protection regulations that govern the operation of vessels, ports and offshore installations in New Zealand waters.

You will be motivated to support, encourage and require operator compliance with those regulations by licensing and certifying seafarers and commercial operations, educating the maritime community, auditing operators and service providers such as ship surveyors, investigating incidents to try to stop them happening again and enforcing the regulations to hold people to account for their actions. Your focus will be domestic shipping but could include international shipping as well depending on your background and training.

We are looking for a self-motivated team player with a great attitude, initiative and good communication skills who is keen to be trained and supported through a great career at MNZ.

The ideal candidate will need to have some of these key requirements:

You will need to be available to travel and work across New Zealand, sometimes at short notice, and you must also hold a current full and clean Driver Licence.

Expectations for this position are high. Ultimately you will be expected to lead, support and train your colleagues in a challenging and dynamic environment, work collaboratively as part of a regionally focused team and also engage widely both internally and externally.