Lead Water Engineer Design Manager

Lead Water Engineer / Design Manager

Wereexpanding our water portfolio in Wellington and Auckland need an experienced water engineer to lead design delivery of three waters projects.

This role sits within a technically strong Land & Water team that delivers a variety of growth-related and renewal projects across Wellington for a variety of clients across the water land development transport health education and manufacturing be focused on water sector work coordinating detailed design packages with input from multiple disciplines coordinating stakeholders navigating utilities and building and maintaining trusted relationships with clients.

What Youll Do

• Lead design delivery for threewaters capital projects including network renewals resilience upgrades pump stations pipelines storage assets and treatmentrelated infrastructure.
• Take ownership of concept through detailed design bringing together civil hydraulic structural geotechnical mechanical and electrical inputs to deliver safe buildable solutions in live operational environments.
• Be accountable for design scope programme quality and technical risk with clear ownership of outcomes through to construction handover.
• Coordinate and guide multidisciplinary teams resolving interfaces and complexity and setting the standard for highquality practical design delivery.
• Act as a trusted daytoday technical partner to our water clients leading workshops optioneering and reviews within collaborative delivery models.
• Deliver clear highquality design documentation including design management plans reports drawings specifications risk and safetyindesign outputs that support confident construction and asset operation.

What Youll Bring

• 1015 years experience delivering water infrastructure projects with demonstrated leadership of design delivery and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong background in the water sector with experience across threewaters assets and familiarity with council or utility clients in New Zealand or comparable markets.
• Deep technical capability in civil and hydraulic design with the confidence to integrate review and challenge inputs across structural geotechnical mechanical and electrical disciplines.
• Proven ability to take ownership of design scope programme quality and technical risk from concept through to construction handover particularly in brownfield or operational environments.
• Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering (or equivalent) CPEng (or working towards) familiarity with tools likeAutodesk Construction Cloud Civil 3D and strong proficiency in MS 365 including Copilot to support efficient collaborative delivery.

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