Media Release
For immediate release – 20 March 2024

Council welcomes new Group Manager Operations and Services
Kawerau District Council extends a warm welcome to Dean Lye as the new Group Manager, Operations and Services. 

Dean comes to Council as a senior leader with more than three decade’s experience in the military, commercial aviation, and port industries. Dean has recently relocated back to New Zealand from Perth where he was working as a Regulatory Accountable Manager and Engineering Director. 

Council chief executive Morgan Godfery on behalf of the council and the district welcomes Dean and his family who will be moving to the Bay of Plenty.

“We welcome Dean to join council as part of the leadership team and thank him for bringing his kete of knowledge and experience to our district.”

Council officially welcomed Dean to the organisation on Monday March 18, with a Mihi Whakatau in the Council Chamber from Council’s Cultural Advisor Te Haukakawa Te Rire and Her Worship Mayor Faylene Tunui with attendance by the senior leadership team and some 40 members of staff, many of whom are in the operations and services team.

Dean started work with the Council on March 18 and takes on the role from the acting group manager role Riaan Nel, council’s engineering manager.

“The Kawerau community is fortunate to have someone of Dean’s knowledge and experience. We look forward to the contributions he will make in his new role.”

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For more information, please contact Kawerau District Council communications and engagement manager Tania Humberstone on 027 464 3785.

 

Her Worship the Mayor Faylene Tunui, new general manager, operations and services Dean Lye with his new team at the Council’s mihi whakatau (welcome) that was held on Monday 18 March.​

Dean Lye (left) and Chris Marjoribanks (right) at the Council’s mihi whakatau (welcome) that was held on Monday 18 March.