Senior Engineer

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As Senior Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in project managing a wide range of three waters asset renewals and upgrade projects through the design and construction phases. You will lead challenging issues and review work and act as a technical support to the wider team of more than 20 staff overseeing some of the most critical infrastructure projects across the region.

Working with a wide range of stakeholders, you will work to ensure the design standards are best practice and consistently upheld to ensure the continual improvement of infrastructure across the region.

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Core responsibilities for the role require you to:

• Act as the recognised expert in design and project management
• Manage multiple, large scale and complex projects through investigation and design to construction across three waters focus areas.
• Oversee contract documentation preparation, tender process and contract administration.
• Investigate issues around water supply, wastewater and stormwater utilities and work to provide streamlined solutions.
• Actively manage stakeholders to ensure project deliverables are met, and relationships are strong.
• Ensure strategic outcomes across the team are delivered and a wider project delivery programme meets all standards and deliverables.

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The ideal candidate will:

• Have CPEng status and a minimum of a Bachelor of Engineering in either civil or environmental engineering.
• Have experience in managing design processes and specialist consultants
• Be experienced in the delivery of three waters infrastructure projects.
• Have a strong understanding of three waters infrastructure design and construction and solid understanding of water quality requirements
• Possess a detailed knowledge of project management practice including pre-tender phase, scheduling works, budget management and stakeholder engagement
• Have prior exposure to GIS and project management software
• Capability to work with a variety of stakeholders, including consultants, councils, and internal teams, and direct reports.
• Familiarity with New Zealand’s regulatory environment and consenting processes.
• Design experience preferred.
• Experience either in local / regional government organisations and / or consultancy organisations.

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You will engage in critical projects with high-profile visibility, and will be comfortable that there is committed funding and a huge forward workload. In a supportive, and family-oriented work environment, this is a culture of knowledge sharing, and an organisation that is strongly positioned for any potential future water reforms.  

As a result you can expect a very competitive salary commensurate with your experience and a wide list of employee benefits, professional development and career progression.

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