Electrician
Visa sponsorship
Trade · Queenstown, New Zealand · Full-Time · $25/hr · Visa: Employer sponsored
Queenstown, New Zealand is the base for this electrician role with an electrical services business, covering commercial installations, infrastructure and development projects, streetlighting and essential electrical services. You would manage your own tasks and be trusted to make sound technical decisions.
Overseas electricians are invited to have their experience assessed for a New Zealand-based career, so keep registration, qualifications and work history in order.
Start your English CV with your EWRB registration, your commercial and streetlighting experience and your practising licence status. Use Build AI CV for a clean layout before you apply.
Key Responsibilities
- Install and maintain electrical systems for commercial buildings
- Work on infrastructure and development projects
- Install, service and maintain streetlighting
- Read through electrical drawings, plans and technical specifications ahead of each job
- Find, diagnose and fix faults
- Finish installations as each project demands
- Organise your own workload with little oversight and hold workmanship to a high level on all projects
- Operate within electrical regulations, workplace procedures and safety requirements
- Update supervisors, colleagues and project stakeholders regularly
- Handle electrical tools and equipment carefully, cope with shifting project demands and work settings and help the team stay dependable and professional
Requirements & Eligibility
- Current EWRB Electrical Registration
- Current New Zealand Practising Licence, or eligible to obtain one
- 3–5+ years of commercial electrical work experience
- Strong practical knowledge of installing and maintaining electrical systems
- Verifiable work history in the electrician trade, plus practical skills you can genuinely demonstrate
- Comfortable working alone and making sound technical decisions
- Careful with detail and committed to quality
- Clear written and spoken communication
- Proactive, reliable and professional, with a strong commitment to health and safety
- Fits in well with a small team
- Legally eligible to work in New Zealand, or suitable for employer-supported sponsorship
Apply: Apply by email · WhatsApp
Visa guide: New Zealand AEWV Guide