Fitness Consultant | Matanga Waiora
PCC
Listing Description
Description
The people of Porirua City are what makes ours a truly special place – we take pleasure in helping and caring for each other. We want everyone to feel welcome here, whether they're visiting, living or working here. We're looking for people who will help position our city as a welcoming, dynamic place to live, work and visit.
All about the job
We are seeking a customer focused, friendly person to work on Saturday afternoons (12:30 – 7:00pm) at Arena Fitness Centre. We also have a casual role available, with no fixed hours.
This role will embrace your passion for creating a fantastic customer experience and provide you with a dynamic and friendly team.
You will be responsible for:
- carrying out fitness assessments and setting effective exercise programmes to assist our members to achieve their fitness goals
- confirming new memberships and completing new member inductions
- providing tours of the gym premises
- ensuring our Arena Fitness Centre is tidy, well presented and operating at a high level
- answering customer enquiries, and confirming membership
- covering at reception
- completing general administrative tasks including updating membership records and members files.
All about you
You will have worked in the health and fitness industry and will have completed some tertiary qualifications in Sport Exercise or Health and Fitness.
You'll need to show us that you:
- have a tertiary qualification in Exercise Science or Health and Fitness at Level 4 Personal Training or higher
- have great communication skills and thrive on motivating others to achieve their goals
- have a current first aid certificate
- have demonstrated initiative and are able work unsupervised and in a team
- always provide a high level of customer service and communication skills
- are a team player, and a willingness to pull together to get the work done.
What you need to do now
Come and join our Arena Team and be part of our welcoming and engaging environment. Please contact Sheree Marsh 04 237 1568 for more information.
Porirua City Council is committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. If you have any support or access requirements during our recruitment process, please let us know when you apply, and we'll do our best to get you sorted.
To find out more about working for Porirua City Watch this video
You will need to apply via our careers centre: http://www.poriruacity.govt.nz/careers.
Applications need to be received via our Careers Portal by Tuesday 3 February 2026.
Application details
PCC
We are kaitiaki of Porirua and work together to protect the city, keep it working and help it grow. And we love our mahi.
You can be part of our place by working here! Join us, and contribute to the exciting future of our vibrant city. Kia kaha e hoa mā! It's our people that make this such a great place to work. He aha te mea nui? He tāngata. He tāngata. He tāngata.
You’ll meet a welcoming and diverse team who are proud to work for our city and share a common goal to make a difference here for our community.
We want everyone to feel welcome, whether they’re visiting, living or working here. Our three behaviours guide all Council kaimahi in their day-to-day work – we look for ways to do things better, use our skills to get things done, and work together to make a difference. Porirua City supports an inclusive environment and is a member of Diversity Works
We have a wide range of roles and careers at Council – libraries, parks and reserves, transport, Arena Fitness, policy and regulation, arts and culture, emergency management and finance to name a few. If the role you’re looking for isn’t available, you can register on our Careers portal to receive notifications.
Our website – poriruacity.govt.nz/work-with-us – has more about who we are and the work we do, and you can check out our Facebook page to get a feel for what’s been happening recently: http://www.facebook.com/PCC.PoriruaCityCouncil or follow us on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/porirua-city-council
