Project Delivery Lead
Are you looking to join a true Kiwi clean-tech success story scaling across New Zealand, Australia, and Europe?
- True Kiwi clean-tech success story scaling across NZ, Australia & Europe
- Work with ex-ABB & Rocket Lab engineers on world-first EV grid tech
- Napier-based (no regular travel need) with relocation grant & concierge service
Are you looking to join a true Kiwi clean-tech success story scaling across New Zealand, Australia, and Europe?
Are you a practical electrical infrastructure project manager ready to own end-to-end delivery for world-first EV grid technology from a sunny Napier base?
Kwetta is rapidly expanding across New Zealand, Australia, and into Europe on a mission to decarbonise heavy transport. Backed by premier investors including Blackbird and powered by smart humans from ABB and Rocket Lab, they are solving one of electrification's biggest bottlenecks: unlocking existing high-voltage grid capacity so ultra-fast EV charging can deploy in weeks rather than years. Based in Napier with no regular field travel, this is a chance to change the world, not just change jobs.
The Opportunity:
Reporting to the Head of Service & Delivery, you will own Kwetta's delivery scope on every customer project, taking world-first ultra-fast EV power systems from Sales handover through Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), dispatch logistics, and commissioning coordination to operational handover.
Based at Kwetta's Napier headquarters without regular field travel, you will be the primary point of contact for customers, channel partners, electrical contractors, and network distribution companies. While customers or partners manage site civils and physical installation, you will keep close oversight of site readiness, supply technical requirements and drawings, and resolve risks early so every project lands safely and on programme.
About Kwetta
Decarbonising transport is one of the most urgent challenges of our time, and Kwetta is dedicating its life's work to solving it. Commercial fleets make up just 5% of traffic yet cause over 25% of road transport emissions, held back by multi-year utility substation delays. Kwetta's modular Prime Grid Gateway and Sky Hook hardware connects directly to high-voltage networks to bypass those bottlenecks.
With real systems operating commercially today, Series A backing from Blackbird Ventures, and active expansion into Amsterdam and wider Europe, you will work alongside founders and engineers from ABB, Rocket Lab, CR Automation, and Vectek. The culture blends Silicon Valley ambition with Hawke's Bay balance: really smart people, surprisingly little ego, high autonomy, and everyone mucking in together.
What You'll Do
- Own Kwetta's Delivery Scope: Plan and manage deliverables, programme, budget, variations, resourcing, and risks from Sales handover through to operational handover.
- Coordinate Testing, Logistics & Commissioning: Lead Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) with Operations and R&D, manage freight logistics from Napier dispatch to site, and coordinate commissioning and compliance sign-off with Kwetta's technical team.
- Oversee Partner & Customer Site Works: Maintain oversight of civil, electrical, and network connection works with distribution companies, providing drawings, installation guidance, and early risk resolution.
- Scale Delivery Systems: Build and refine project templates, tools, and lessons-learned processes as international deployments accelerate across Australia and Europe.
- Coordinate Service & Initial Triage: Partner with the Service Lead and field service contractors on planned maintenance, reactive jobs, and remote fault triage using Kwetta's monitoring tools.
We are looking for a practical, solutions-focused project manager who understands electrical infrastructure and is confident managing multiple stakeholders, partners, and budgets from a central HQ base.
- 5+ years' practical experience project managing electrical infrastructure delivery (such as EV charging, solar, battery storage/BESS, switchboards, substations, or commercial/industrial electrical).
- End-to-end delivery track record covering planning, programmes, budgets, risk management, contractor coordination, testing, commissioning, and handover.
- Strong technical and compliance knowledge covering electrical installation, safe work practices, and multi-stakeholder management.
- Relevant trade or engineering background such as a registered electrician or electrical fitter, NZ Diploma/Certificate in Engineering (Electrical), engineering degree, or project management qualification (proven practical delivery counts most).
- Full New Zealand driver licence and willingness for occasional travel if required.
- Nice to have: Experience with EV charging, solar, BESS, network distribution connections, international project delivery, electrical fault-finding, or PMP/PRINCE2 certification.
- Purpose & Pedigree: Help eliminate petrochemical reliance and speed up global electrification alongside industry veterans who have built power networks and sent hardware to orbit.
- The Hawke's Bay Dream & Full Relocation Support: Swap traffic jams and big-city mortgages for a much bigger, better, and cheaper house near the beach, world-class schooling, sunny weather, and no regular field travel. Kwetta offers up to $4,000 in relocation support plus a dedicated concierge service to help source homes, schools, childcare, and doctors. Even if relocating feels like a pipe dream right now, do not stress over it: let's have a confidential chat first, and we can connect you with team members who have already made the move (some took longer than others to make the leap, and we completely get it).
- The Full Package: Competitive salary reflective of your experience, ESOP equity upside, flexible working hours, Southern Cross Wellbeing One health insurance for you and your direct family, plus a $500 annual wellbeing allowance.
Apply now via SEEK, or contact Tom Shaw at tom.shaw@sproutpeople.co or 029 043 28220 for a confidential chat.