Maintenance Specialist needed in ANTARCTICA!
Hays
Listing Description
Description
- A once in a lifetime opportunity to live and work in Antarctica
- Free meals prepared daily, no grocery bills, no cooking
- All required medical checks included as part of your deployment.
Maintenance Specialist ANTARCTICA!
If you are looking to elevate your career with an experience that stands out anywhere in the world, APPLY NOW or call 021 967 565
Location: McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Full Time, On Site, Summer season (Estimated October 2026 - Feb 2027)
This is a full on site deployment. You will live and work on the ice for the duration of the assignment.
Flights + Accommodation + Meals + Covered Medical Checks
What's Included
- A once in a lifetime opportunity to live and work in Antarctica, surrounded by world leading scientists, engineers, and a tight knit international community.
- Free accommodation for the entire duration of your stay
- Free meals prepared daily, no grocery bills, no cooking
- All required medical checks included as part of your deployment
About the Role As a Maintenance Specialist, you will perform a wide range of preventive and corrective maintenance tasks across buildings, systems, and equipment under the supervision of the Preventative Maintenance Foreman or Facilities Maintenance Supervisor. Work is assigned based on your experience and operational requirements. This role is essential to keeping McMurdo Station's critical infrastructure running in one of the most unique environments on Earth.
Key Responsibilities
- Diagnose, repair, and perform scheduled preventive maintenance on buildings, systems, equipment, and infrastructure
- Conduct major overhauls on HVAC, refrigeration, hydronic systems, pumps, compressors, overhead doors, hoists, kitchen equipment, shop tools, and other facility related assets
- Manage small maintenance projects, coordinating trades, tools, materials, and schedules
- Respond promptly to emergency service calls, including after hours
- Prepare work plans, JHAs/JSAs, checklists, and required documentation
- Maintain accurate records of hours, materials, and work performed
- Communicate job progress and material/labour needs to the Supervisor
- Work from job plans, schematics, blueprints, wiring diagrams, manuals, and codes
- Identify hazards and maintain a safe work environment
- Assist and oversee Utility Technicians as required
- Perform other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Willingness and ability to deploy to Antarctica for extended periods
- 3+ years of industrial or commercial facilities maintenance experience
- Experience in HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing, and electrical systems
- Experience with fuel oil fired combustion appliances
- Ability to read and interpret design drawings, specifications, and diagrams
- Proficiency with mechanical and electrical test equipment
- Experience preparing work plans and safety documentation
- Basic computer literacy and willingness to learn digital tracking systems
- New Zealand citizenship, permanent residency, or valid NZ work rights (no sponsorship available; WHV acceptable with relevant experience)
- Full New Zealand driving licence
- Ability to pass medical, dental, drug testing, and criminal background checks
Who This Role Suits This position is ideal for maintenance professionals who are adaptable, safety focused, and motivated by unique challenges. It offers the chance to contribute to essential operations in one of the most extraordinary environments on Earth.
Sounds like you? Apply now or send an up to date version of your CV to Venizze.bruzo@hays.net.nz and call Venizze on 021 967 565
Other roles available below
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- CONSTRUCTION LABOURER
- ELECTRICIAN
- LIGHT VEHICLE TECHNICIAN
- MAINTENANCE SPECIALIST
- PIPE FITTER
- PLUMBER
- CARPENTER APPRENTICE
- CONSTRUCTION SUPERINTENDENT
- ELECTRICIAN
- LIGHT VEHICLE TECHNICIAN
- MAINTENANCE SPECIALIST
- MECHANIC BOILER
- MECHANIC REFRIGERATION
- MECHANIC UTILITY
- PIPE FITTER
- PLUMBER
- SHEET METAL WORKER
Application details
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