About the Company:
Tait Systems NZ is a newly established company tasked with constructing and operating a Public Safety Network (PSN), a secure digital land mobile radio communications network that will strengthen the communications capability of Emergency Services Agencies across New Zealand.
The PSN will provide modern and secure communication services - including voice, messaging, and inter-agency communications ensuring our emergency services can respond faster, safer, and more effectively.
We operate as a lean organisation, where everyone contributes to ensure delivery is on time, on budget, and to the highest quality. Innovation, a can-do attitude, and a relentless drive to do things better are at the core of who we are. We're looking for people who thrive in this environment and are excited to take on big challenges.
This is a rare opportunity to play a key leadership role in one of New Zealand's most significant communications infrastructure programmes.
About the Role
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the General Manager Deployment will lead the delivery of the network build programme, ensuring regional deployment milestones are achieved, and the project is delivered safely, efficiently, and within budget.
In this role, you will lead a team responsible for managing the end-to-end deployment of PSN sites from Site Acquisition (SAQ) through to handover and acceptance. You'll provide strategic oversight across project planning, resource allocation, risk management, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring the programme meets its objectives with excellence.
This is a fixed-term or contract position through to June 2027, offering an opportunity to directly influence the success of a critical, high-profile national programme.
Your Key Responsibilities will Include:
About You:
You'll bring proven senior leadership experience in large-scale telecommunications, infrastructure, or technology deployment programmes, ideally within complex or safety‑critical environments.
Your background should demonstrate:
Above all, you are hands-on, results-driven, and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where challenges are met head-on and success is shared.
Apply Now:
If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you! Apply now with your CV and cover letter by Monday 2nd March 2026.
To find out more about the role, please download the Position Description from our Careers page.
Our clients protect communities, power cities, move citizens, harness resources and save lives all over the world. We work with them to create, support and unify the critical communication solutions they depend on to do their jobs.
Digital wireless communication forms the central nervous system of everything we do. Around this resilient, robust core we design, develop, manufacture, test, deploy, support and manage innovative communication environments for organizations that have to put their total trust in the systems and people they work with.
We’ve worked hard to develop genuine insight into our clients’ worlds, and have pursued engineering, operational and services excellence for more than 40 years. This understanding, and our belief in championing open-standards technology, means we can give our clients the best possible choice and value to achieve the human outcomes they’re driven by.
We’re not simply aligned with our clients; we’re devoted to their cause.
Tait Communications’ sole dividend receiving shareholder is a charitable trust which shares the company’s operating profits across several donation and investment streams responsible for research and development, regional reinvestment and education. This rare model means clients can rely on Tait Communications to be an independent long-term player in the critical communications industry and to continue to play its role of ‘open-standards champion’.
