Owner’s Technical Requirements Manager

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity  

You’ll manage the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of Contact’s OTR across all generation technologies, ensuring it remains accurate, current, and fit for purpose as a “living” set of requirements that evolves with regulation, standards, and lessons learned. 

In this role, you’ll be trusted with strategic ownership and strong cross‑functional influence. You’ll work closely with technical, commercial, legal and project delivery partners to keep requirements clear and unambiguous, balancing regulatory obligations with commercial outcomes, upfront capital choices, and long‑term operational value. 

You’ll be responsible for: 

• Shaping technical requirements that become the backbone of tendering and, once contracts are executed, are managed through formal change processes.  

• Bringing experts together and turn complexity into clarity by facilitating workshops with technical specialists and incorporating regulatory updates, industry standards, project learnings, and Contact’s risk appetite into the OTR.  

• Elevating the quality of technical writing and consistency so requirements are plain language, precise, and workable for both contractor and internal technical/commercial audiences.  

• Strengthening alignment to Contact Engineering Standards by partnering with Engineering and Technical Authorities to ensure the OTR and internal standards stay in sync.  

• Enabling confident governance and decision making by supporting the OTR Review Boards (including agenda and minutes) and ensuring stakeholders have the insights they need.  

• Improving the system, not just the document by identifying opportunities to lift OTR processes, governance, and database quality over time.  

• Supporting delivery teams through tendering so contractors clearly understand and align to requirements before contract award, reducing downstream surprise. 

Reporting to the Head of Project Portfolio Management – Renewable Growth, you’ll sit in the Renewable Growth team and work across the business to help projects move from concept to confident execution.