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 Transport Planners & Senior Transport Engineers

Our Transport Infrastructure team is looking for Senior Transport Planners and Senior Transportation Engineers to join their business in Auckland and Hamilton. You will work closely with an increasingly diversified range of clients to help visualise and achieve their goals with commitment, integrity and innovation.

We work on some of New Zealand's key infrastructure projects and these roles will provide opportunities for growth and variety.

Contribute towards growing the capacity, capability, skills and reputation of the team to become the leading consultant of choice within New Zealand.

Work collaboratively with the wider Transport teams nationally and internationally to break down barriers and deliver strategic projects. These roles will provide Transport Planning support to projects around the country.

The roles:

• Develop and lead investment cases and scheme assessments for transport projects in accordance with NZTA or appropriate client procedures.
• Develop and lead various transportation assessments, investigations, strategy studies, feasibility studies, traffic/transportation modelling, economic evaluation, scheme assessments and other tasks relating to all transportation modes.
• Manage assigned projects to ensure that all deliverables meet, or exceed, clients’ explicit and implicit needs and expectations.
• Lead and contribute to project teams to ensure that projects are completed on time, within budget and to the required quality. Contribute to ensuring projects achieve the planned profit.
• Undertake planning of and correctly scope out projects, have appropriate inputs and outputs and verification activities.
• Undertake administrative tasks associated with assigned projects including reporting on job progress and budget.
• Undertake verification activities and technical reviews of projects and tasks.
• Ensure that designs, drawings, strategy development and recommendations will achieve the desired outcomes and that all reports and other outputs are correctly prepared and monitored.
• Prepare fee estimates and negotiation of fees for services with clients, ensuring that projects can operate on a profitable basis.
• Engage in business development activities, including meetings and events with clients, under the leadership of company client relationship managers.
• Liaise with and meet staff from similar WSP transportation teams across New Zealand and across the WSP company globally with a view to supporting them on project work and business development where applicable.

About you:

• 5+ years’ professional experience within the field of transportation infrastructure, transport engineering and planning.
• Relevant tertiary qualification
• Proven ability and track record in managing multidisciplinary projects through the full spectrum of the project life cycle and delivering according to quality, time and budget requirements.
• Proven experience developing business cases and leading project proposals

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

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!

At WSP, we exist to shape communities to advance humanity.

It’s why we bring people together who are wired to solve complex challenges - engineers, scientists, advisors, and technical experts who are driven by a common passion - to redefine what’s possible and shape what comes next. We are Visioneers.

As one of the world’s leading professional services firms, we partner with clients across transportation, infrastructure, environment, buildings, energy, water, mining and metals. We pair deep local knowledge with global insights to pioneer solutions designed to leave a lasting, positive impact.

At WSP, you’ll join a community of brilliant minds that push boundaries every day - applying deep expertise and fuelling innovation to help create a more connected and resilient future. Here, your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and you are encouraged to bring your authentic self to work. We empower our people to collaborate across disciplines, challenge the status quo, and shape a career with purpose.

Join us.

Please Note:

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations. Full details here

Some safety-sensitive positions involve fieldwork and may include work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Full details here