Ground Engineering & Tunnelling Team Leader - Auckland

Company Description

Work with us. Change the world. 

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Providing sustainable water solutions for a better world.

For decades AECOM has been providing water system services throughout ANZ with a focus on emerging technology and innovation. We are industry leaders in asset management as well as the full range of infrastructure and service planning, design, and construction.

Public and private municipal water companies call on our experience to help them protect public health and the environment through the provision of safe drinking water and sanitation services.

We work closely with clients to provide water solutions that contribute to liveable and water sensitive cities, reduce cost and impact and use new technology in treatment processes.

Job Description

What will a day in this role look like?

• Creating a great place to work aligned with our cultural aspirations; continuing to develop a high performing, motivated and engaged team, encouraging learning and development opportunities, employee engagement, attraction and retention strategies.
• Driving technical excellence and exceptional project delivery including representation at Technical Practice Networks
• Growing relationships with key clients, leading to winning projects and extensions
• Driving collaboration, bringing innovation and pursuing best practice in our key pursuits, pitches, bids, pitches and proposals and projects.
• Forecasting and efficient scheduling of resources and allocation of work tasks to meet client demand and expectations, as well as financial performance for the business.

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes, you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.  

Qualifications

What are we looking for from you? 

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline i.e. civil, structural, geology
• Demonstrated experience in a leadership role within the civil, geotechnical and/or geology disciplines
• Solid business development skills and the ability to build strong client relationships
• Ability to set and communicate a clear set of actions with associated proposed outcomes and timeframes
• Communicates with confidence; builds broad and deep external networks, uses a full range of mediums to inspire and engage others, demonstrates empathy, understanding and has exceptional active listening skills, elicits feedback and encourages others to speak up.

Additional Information

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.