Intermediate - Senior Civil Engineer

Holmes Aus & Nz; Auckland; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Holmes Aus & Nz is seeking an Intermediate to Senior Civil Engineer to join our NZ team, delivering a diverse civil engineering portfolio across local projects and New Zealand-wide initiatives. You’ll engage with clients, partners and project teams, providing technical leadership and mentoring to junior engineers while contributing to innovative design solutions.

You’ll bring extensive civil engineering experience, strong knowledge of infrastructure design, and proficiency with Civil3D/AutoCAD.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of civil engineering experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in civil engineering.
• Strong design and client-relations skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to technical design across infrastructure projects.
• Develop and maintain positive client relationships and stakeholder engagement.
• Provide day-to-day technical leadership and mentoring for junior engineers.
• Support proposals through to project delivery and successful outcomes.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Technical design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering

Higher degree in Civil Engineering

Tools

Civil3D

AutoCAD

Job description

For seven decades, across New Zealand and the world, Holmes has led the engineering industry in invention, creativity and quality. We’ve built our reputation on the strength of our technical brilliance, ability to innovate, and our unwavering commitment to delivering engineering excellence. With a fast-growing, highly successful team and new projects starting all over New Zealand, we’re looking for Intermediate - Senior Civil Engineer to join our team.

About the role | Mō te Tūranga

Working on projects locally and across NZ, you’ll be part of a close-knit team delivering a diverse and challenging civil engineering portfolio. We work on a range of different infrastructure projects, all varying in size and complexity. You’ll have an opportunity to bring new ideas, innovation and thinking to the table. This role will see you involved in technical design along with developing and maintaining positive and productive client relationships. Using your stakeholder management skills to engage your clients, project partners and your own project team, you’ll also support with day-to-day technical leadership, along with coaching and mentoring our junior engineers to improve their skills and deliver excellence.

About You | Mōu

Experience working within the field of civil engineering, ideally with 5 plus years of experience along with a relevant bachelor’s qualification or higher in civil engineering.

• You’ll have strong experience across a wide variety of infrastructure design aspects, and experience in pipe networks, pressure pipes and pump systems.
• We’re ideally looking for someone with a civil/mechanical background, with experience in reservoirs, and treatment plants.
• You’ll be a technically astute engineer, ideally with relevant experience in the NZ regulatory environment.
• Experience in Design and Construct Tender processes is preferred.
• With project lead and relationship building capabilities, your experience will span from proposals through to project delivery.
• Your excellent technical skills will be matched by your ability to build meaningful client relationships and you’ll be a confident communicator with the willingness to help out at every level.
• Strong experience in Civil3D/AutoCAD.
• You'll also have excellent communication skills and be creative and solutions focused.

Working with Holmes | Te Mahi ki Holmes

• You’ll be part of an experienced team delivering a diverse and challenging civil engineering portfolio.
• The opportunity provide day-to-day technical leadership, support and guidance on projects, along with coaching and mentoring our engineers to improve their skills and deliver excellence.
• Continual professional development conversations + performance & career conversations.
• We offer and encourage flexible working and support a work/life balance to suit your lifestyle and we operate on a 37.5 hour working week with hours to suit your lifestyle.

Hard work's a big part of what's got us where we are today, but it's not the final word. At Holmes, we have a vibrant, fun culture. If sport is your thing, you can join our touch, indoor netball, or football teams. Bootcamps, ski and cycle trips are also on the menu if you want to get involved, and we’ve got a range of social functions throughout the year if they take your fancy. We’re a friendly, relaxed team that loves getting stuck into great projects, with plenty of fun and good times along the way.

Our vision at Holmes is to be more representative of the communities we serve—and the places we live and work. Holmes people are encouraged to dream big and empowered to achieve their goals in an environment where we recognise and value diversity. Our commitment is to provide all of our great people equal support and equitable opportunity to thrive, grow and develop.