Aaron Hume-Merry

Operations Manager

Aaron brings together a broad background of relevant fields in his role as Operations Manager that comprises of a wide variety of disciplines and roles from General Management to development engineering and hydrology for renewable power generation.

As a past Development Engineer within the building development engineering team at Auckland Council for three years Aaron was responsible for the processing of building consents, land-use consents, and managed numerous specialist reviews for Auckland Council clients. His time spent with Council developed his engineering skills and knowledge, specifically in relation to consent processing and the statutory obligations for consent holders.

Following his time with Council, Aaron was offered an exciting opportunity to manage the (Sir) Russell Coutts Sailing Foundation and dedicated three years to this cause as General Manager. Aaron exceled in this role, managing staff and projects and assuming sole responsibility for the day to day running of the Foundation which accounted for the teaching of sailing to more than 3000 participants and employing over 25 staff at its peak.

Within his role as Ops Manager, Aaron provides the team with quality assurance support for managing and coordinating projects including consent compliance and health and safety auditing. Aaron manages all business systems, processes, resourcing and provides project support to our project managers. Included in his responsibilities are people and capability and management of Health & Safety, both tasks of particular familiarity to him following his previous role as GM.