The number of Department of Conservation staff in Rotorua will be reduced by three as part of the nationwide restructure.
The Rotorua office will have 23 positions after the restructure, down from the 26 it has at the moment but one more than in the initial proposal.
Opotiki is also set to have its numbers reduced but Whakatane will pick up an extra three positions.
Meanwhile the future is still uncertain for Department of Conservation staff in Turangi and Taupo, with a sombre mood prevailing at the districts' two DoC offices.
While a change to the proposed restructure sees four more staff being retained at the Turangi DoC office than originally signalled, all DoC staff are having to apply for jobs in the new structure, and there is widespread uncertainty.
Once the new structure comes in effect, the Turangi DoC Service Centre will have 17 positions (down from 32 at present) and Taupo will have 34 positions (up from 17 at present).
The new structure also sees the 11 DoC conservancies abolished, with six regions being created instead. Taupo has been selected as the site for the new Central North Island Regional Office, which will encompass the Tongariro, Whanganui, Taranaki, East Coast and Bay of Plenty. Turangi loses its Taupo-nui-a-Tia Area Office status and will become a service centre, as will the Whakapapa Area Office.
That means that some Turangi jobs will shift to the new Taupo regional DoC office and the overall number of DoC jobs in the Taupo district will be slightly higher, with two new positions being created, but there's still the uncertainty of who will be appointed to which jobs.
DoC's Taupo-based conservation support manager Mark Davies said jobs in the new structure were "quite different" because of the way it had been designed and in some cases there's not an automatic fit between the jobs people were doing now and the new jobs.
The jobs most affected are the middle management layers, including programme and area managers. The number of DoC rangers in the new structure is "very similar" to those in the current structure, Mr Davies said.
All the conservators' jobs have disappeared but the new regional structure will have two new regional directors, one a partnerships director and the other a conservation services director.
Mr Davies said the uncertainty was impacting on local DoC staff and on the mood in DoC offices.
The new DoC regional office, likely to be built on vacant land behind Waiora House in Taupo and could be completed as early as December.