Maintenance Operations Contract Manager

Attractive Salary | Company Ute | Health Insurance | Discounted Fuel | Career Growth | Winton and Lumsden based

Southland's roads take a beating, sun, snow, silage trucks, the lot. We need someone who can keep on top of it all, permanently.

SouthRoads is looking for a Contract Manager to run our Maintenance Operations team, covering everything from scheduled reseals to the 2am call-out after a slip takes out a culvert. This isn't a build-it-once-and-move-on role, it's ongoing, it's varied, and no two weeks look the same.

About Us

SouthRoads Ltd is a progressive civil construction contractor with deep roots in Southland and Otago, and part of the HW Richardson Group. Our fleet is modern, our people are the real deal, and our reputation is built one project at a time. If you like being somewhere that still feels like a team rather than a spreadsheet, you'll fit right in.

About The role

You'll own the relationship, Southland District Council on our maintenance contracts, which means you're as comfortable in a contract review meeting as you are standing in the rain looking at a washout. Day to day you're planning reactive and cyclic works, deploying crews and plant where they're needed most in conjunction with other Contract Managers, keeping an eye on contract KPIs, and making the call when weather changes everyone's plans for the day. You will maintain the divisions plant in liaison with our workshop and manage projects.

About you

We need someone who's done this before, genuine maintenance or roading experience, a working knowledge of council requirements, and the kind of calm head that doesn't panic when three things go wrong before smoko. You'll be leading people, so they need to want to follow you, not just report to you.

What we offer

In return, a strong salary, a company ute, health insurance, discounted fuel, and a real path upward in a business that's been part of the Southland and Otago landscape for a long time. We're part of the HW Richardson Group, so there's scale behind us, but we still run like a team that knows each other's names.

Sound like your kind of work? Let's talk.

To apply for this job go to: https://hwrcareers.co.nz/Vacancies

Reference Code: 6933359

Applications close 14 October 2026