About Us | Lutra

Our Story

Founded in 2006, Lutra started as a small process engineering team, providing consultancy services throughout New Zealand for water treatment. Lutra have since grown to a team of 35, expanding our consultancy services into Water and Wastewater, as well as developing the market leading data management software Infrastructure Data.

With well over a decade of experience, 30+ clients in the government municipalities and industrial space in NZ, as well as 25+ international clients, Lutra have built a reputation of delivering excellence across our engineering, advanced process control, training and software offerings.

We Are So Much More Than Your Average Consultancy

Our Team is made up of engineers, modelers, data management specialists, content producers, and project managers. We combine expert engineering knowledge with innovative technologies to support the three waters industry in providing end-to-end solutions, including market-leading operations and compliance management software.

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Water Engineering

Lutra's experienced water process engineering team have the skills and experience to offer a broad range of services such as options studies, process design and commissioning support.

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Infrastructure Data Software

Our operations and compliance management software is designed to improve operational performance while reducing organisational risk.

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Wastewater Engineering

Lutra's wastewater process engineering team's knowledge is some of the best in the industry, whether you want to design a new activated sludge system or optimise your MABR we can help you out.

Wastewater Services

Why Lutra?

We are an outcomes focused company who prioritise the needs of our customers over anything else. Our expert team spend time upfront understanding our clients needs and the desired outcomes for any project, ensuring we deliver excellence with every project.

Some incredible friends we've made along our journey

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Our Team

Lutra boast one of the most experienced and talented teams in the industry.

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Our Commitments

Sustainability

Means working smarter, researching new solutions to current problems, plus efficiently tracking our emissions.

Reducing our emissions and developing sustainable operating practices is core to why in which we operate and is reflected in our Statement of Intent and Mission statement.

Diversity

We are committed to providing a safe, healthy and fun place to work for all of our staff.

Our people are our largest asset. Without our highly skilled team, we would not succeed as a company. We invest heavily in our people - providing training opportunities, a work/life balance, equal pay and the freedom to work from home.

Community Engagement

We actively engage and share our knowledge with communities to better our industry.

Lutra aim to share our knowledge with the wider community by actively publishing blog posts, Lutra TV episodes, and newsletters through our LinkedIn.

Empowering Clients

Through smart end-to-end solutions.

We provide operational insights, engineering advice, and advanced process control across your water and wastewater treatment assets, to improve your plants performance, efficiency and compliance.

We believe in keeping people safe

And not just when it comes to providing clean safe drinking water, but also to our staff and yours when they are onsite. To that end we provide regular health and safety training to staff and have completed our PREQUAL Tōkita contractor Prequalification, so you can trust in our health and safety practices, policies and procedures.

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Lutra Offices

Interested in becoming a part of the Lutra family? Here you'll find our open vacancies.

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We are a team of expert process engineers, data scientists and designers, who are driven by a passion to protect water, the environment and people’s health by delivering smarter solutions.