Tauranga City Councils core management staff are having to re-apply for their jobs as part of the current restructuring process.

Four management positions for a Chief Executive Advisory Unit, Strategy Group, Organisational Services Group, Infrastructure Services Group, Regulatory and Community Services Group have been advertised.

Tauranga City Council management have to reapply for their jobs in a council reshuffle.

Current management comprises of customer and environmental services manager Peter Frawley, city directions manager and deputy CEO Christine Jones, city services manager Ian McDonald and business services manager Dean Riley.

Christine Jones' job is now general manager of strategy while city services manager Ian McDonald's job is general manager infrastructure services.

Business services manager Dean Riley's job is split to create a new group manager for organisational services and a lower tier job for an information and technology manager.

Customer and environmental services manager Peter Frawley's job is now general manager for community and environmental services.

The appointment of the new group managers will be made by the new CEO. Interviews for the CEO begin next week, with the appointment expected to be announced next month.

Current CEO Leigh Auton was hired to complete the restructuring process following the death of Ken Paterson last June.

'The general principle was if the job description changed by more than 25 per cent then the job had to be advertised on the open market,” says Mayor Stuart Crosby.

'When you drill down into the detail, activities have been shifted around the different groups so that's triggered the 25 per change, which then triggers the requirement for the job to be advertised on the open market.

'The important thing is that we will appoint a CEO hopefully in not too distant future - and that new CEO will be part of the appointment process of that new senior management team, because they will be his or her senior management team, not Leigh's.

'So it's critical whoever it is plays a very strong role in the appointment of particularly those top four.”

The council has one more interview on its short list for the new CEO, before the council makes its decision, says Stuart. It is expected to take a couple of weeks.

The council is also looking for a chief financial officer, which will be a restructured version of the financial controllers job held by Paul Davidson, and a new communication manager after former communications manager Elizabeth Hughes resigned last year.