Chief Infrastructure Design & Engineering Leader

Assemble Group; Auckland; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working with flexibility

Parental leave topped up to 100% of 18

Life cover

Share of benefits and health insurance

Job summary

Auckland Airport seeks a senior infrastructure leader reporting to the Chief Infrastructure Officer. You will head four functions—Infrastructure Project Development, Engineering and Architectural Design, Spatial Information and Digital Engineering, and Engineering Logistics—driving from concept to delivery and aligning design with strategy and governance.

You will lead a Design Centre of Excellence and set standards across dispersed teams, influencing decisions at the Board level and shaping

Qualifications

• Degree and senior leadership experience in large infrastructure programmes.
• 15+ years in large, complex infrastructure capital programmes.
• Senior leadership experience, ideally as a Chief Engineer or Technical Director.
• Proven ability to lead senior technical specialists and develop strategy.
• Ability to influence without direct authority across matrixed teams.
• Excellent communicator who clarifies complex engineering for non-technical audiences.
• Emotionally intelligent, pragmatic and calm under pressure.
• Positive, collaborative and comfortable leading through change.
• Desirable: Chartered status; airport, airside or terminal experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead design input into ideation, options and business cases.
• Turn master planning concepts into deliverable infrastructure programmes.
• Bridge strategic planning and delivery with governance and assurance.
• Define and build the Design Centre of Excellence and its community of practice.
• Own engineering and architectural design standards, governance and assurance.
• Drive consistency, knowledge sharing and professional growth across dispersed teams.
• Advise the Chief Infrastructure Officer and Leadership Team.
• Present complex technical matters clearly to executives and the Board.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Project governance

People leadership

Influence without authority

Change management

Technical credibility

Education

Degree in Engineering, Architecture, Planning or related

Job description

Auckland Airport seeks a senior infrastructure leader reporting to the Chief Infrastructure Officer. You will head four functions—Infrastructure Project Development, Engineering and Architectural Design, Spatial Information and Digital Engineering, and Engineering Logistics—driving from concept to delivery and aligning design with strategy and governance.

You will lead a Design Centre of Excellence and set standards across dispersed teams, influencing decisions at the Board level and shaping