Fixed Term Digitisation Technicians Role
NZ Micrographic Services (NZMS) is a leading specialist in the preservation, digitisation, and management of cultural heritage collections across Aotearoa. Founded in 1990, NZMS work with fragile and historically significant materials, expertly digitising documents, photographs, bound volumes, artworks, maps, objects, and other taonga.
NZMS supports a wide range of organisations — including galleries, libraries, archives, museums (the “GLAM” sector), as well as government agencies, iwi, schools, universities, commercial enterprises, artists, community groups, and private individuals. The organisation provides end‑to‑end solutions encompassing digitisation, microfilm preservation, consultancy, training, and digital collection management. As resellers of Recollect, NZMS also offers robust platforms that ensure collections remain accessible, discoverable, and protected for future generations.
The Role
Reporting to the General Manager, the Operations Manager oversees day-to-day business operations to optimise efficiency, productivity, and profitability.
Key Responsibilities & Duties
- Operational Delivery: Lead the delivery of contracted services to customers for the Wellington based team.
- Operational Efficiency: Implementing strategies to streamline workflows and improve productivity.
- Process Improvement: Analysing data, KPIs, and operational performance to identify weaknesses and implement improvements.
- Staff Management: Recruiting, managing performance, training, and mentoring staff, as well as overseeing productivity and quality achievement.
- Technical Leadership: Ensure the equipment we use and supply to customers is installed, maintained and operated in line with industry requirements.
- Quality & Compliance: Ensuring products/services meet quality standards and that company activities comply with regulations.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Experience: 3-5 years of experience in an operations leadership role, preferably from the knowledge management sector or associated sectors such as printing or photography.
- Leadership: Strong ability to lead and manage teams, delegate responsibilities, and drive change
- Process Management: Ability to design, implement and manage operational processes and tools.
- Analytical Skills: Strong ability to interpret data and metrics to improve performance
- Communication: Excellent interpersonal skills to work across operations and sales teams nationally
- Customer: Ability to interface at all levels with customers through sales and operational delivery.
- Microsoft suite: Intermediate knowledge in Word, Excel, Teams
- Adobe Suite: Proficient in Adobe applications for creating, editing, and managing documents and visual materials.
- Experience using software platforms for collaboration e.g Zoho, SharePoint desirable.
For more information check out our website www.micrographics.co.nz and www.recollect.co.nz
Please apply with your CV and a cover letter.