Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?
At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives enabling you to do the best work of your life. You can experience a world of opportunities to shape a career as unique as you.
WSP is one of the world’s top professional services firms, bringing together some of the brightest engineers, advisors and scientists from across the globe. We exist to shape communities to advance humanity. We see the world through a Future Ready® lens, fuelled by a shared commitment to making a positive impact—one project and community at a time.

Senior or Principal Engineer – Civil Water Infrastructure, Auckland
We are looking for a senior leader within our Auckland Water Team who will provide technical leadership on water and wastewater projects. A subject matter expert with proven track record of successful water and wastewater infrastructure project delivery. This is a role for technical specialist and leader who understand the challenges involved in moving projects from planning through to construction, skilled at driving project outcomes through technical excellence and value add. If you want to grow your career, then this is the role for you.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to undertake some of the following tasks;
• Prepare technically studies, plans and reports, participate in public consultation/engagement programmes, take a lead strategic view across projects, formulate advice to clients on technical issues when required.
• Be recognised in WSP as an emerging technical leader in water and wastewater with a focus on large pipelines, including experience in trenchless installation, pump stations and underground structures, and provide technical inputs into projects and proposals.
• Manage designs on projects and programmes of work through day-to-day design guidance, providing robust and future ready solutions that meet client and community needs.
• Responsible for coordination and delivery of design package deliverables on time with fit for purpose quality and value for money.

About you:
• Min. 7 years’ professional experience as an infrastructure / water and wastewater professional.
• A recognized tertiary qualification
• CPEng or equivalent
• Experience in design, design management, construction / supervision experience in water supply and wastewater infrastructure, including pipelines and pumpstations. delivering projects through the construction phase.
• Preferable professional experience in a design delivery related discipline
• This is an Auckland based role, please reach out if you are interested in transferring to Auckland.

We are proud to have the blueprint of Aotearoa New Zealand in our DNA and our 2,000+ expert professionals in 24 offices are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve.
Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 75,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

With us, you can. Apply today.
We will review applications as they come in, so if this opportunity sounds like you, don’t wait to apply!

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