Lead Process Engineer

Aurecon Group; Wellington; In loco; NZD 180.000 - 280.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Flexible work

Relocation support

Descrizione del lavoro

Aurecon Group is seeking Lead Process Engineers to join our Auckland or Wellington offices to lead complex dairy and industrial projects across Aotearoa New Zealand. You will shape practical solutions for live manufacturing environments and mentor a growing team of engineers.

With 10+ years in industry or consulting, you will drive technical delivery, client relationships and business development while overseeing multiple projects from concept to commissioning in dairy, food and industrial

Competenze

• Experience in the dairy industry or food & beverage processing environments.
• Proven leadership of complex industrial process projects and multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to develop and manage client relationships and opportunities.
• Strong project-delivery judgement: balance priorities, schedule, risks and client expectations.
• Clear communication and relationship-building with clients and cross-functional teams.

Mansioni

• Lead medium-to-large industrial process projects from concept through commissioning.
• Develop practical process solutions for challenging operating environments.
• Deliver and review process engineering outputs (PFDs, P&IDs, calculations, specs).
• Guide procurement, vendor interfaces, site installation, commissioning and handover.
• Build trusted client relationships and contribute to proposals and future work.
• Mentor junior engineers and strengthen team leadership capabilities.
• Travel to client sites and manage multiple projects across locations.

Conoscenze

Dairy industry

Team leadership

Client relationships

Project delivery

Communication

Formazione

Process/Chemical Eng

Descrizione del lavoro

Energy and Industrial Manufacturing| Auckland or Wellington

Lead complex dairy, food and industrial process projects across Aotearoa New Zealand, shaping practical solutions for live manufacturing environments with New Zealand’s largest dedicated industrial process engineering practice.

Join a team with experience delivering some of New Zealand’s most significant industrial projects, including the Fonterra Clandeboye's mozzarella plants, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. Work with globally recognised clients while building your reputation as a trusted technical leader.

We’re looking for Lead Process Engineers to join our Auckland, or Wellington offices and solve practical engineering challenges in complex operating environments. With significant investment across New Zealand’s dairy, food and industrial sectors, our team has a strong pipeline of work and growth opportunities.

What You’ll Do

• Project Leadership: medium-to-large industrial process projects, ranging from $5m to $60m in capital value, and multidisciplinary teams from concept through commissioning.
• Process Solutions: Understand client production challenges and develop practical process solutions for complex operating environments.
• Technical Delivery: Deliver and review process engineering outputs, including PFDs, P&IDs, calculations, equipment specifications and design documentation.
• Project Delivery: Guide procurement and vendor interfaces, site installation, commissioning and handover.
• Client & Work Winning: Build trusted client relationships, identify opportunities and contribute to proposals, work winning and future project phases.
• Team Leadership: Mentor junior engineers and strengthen technical, project and people leadership across the team.
• Site Exposure: Work across multiple projects and client sites, with occasional travel.

What You’ll Bring

• Industry Exposure: Experience in the dairy industry is highly preferred, with relevant food and beverage, hygienic processing or pharmaceutical experience also welcome.
• Seniority: Proven experience leading complex industrial process projects and multidisciplinary teams, typically gained over 10+ years in industry or consulting, and people leadership
• Client Relationships: Ideally, you’ll have proven business development, work-winning capability and transferable client relationships.
• Project Leading and Delivery: Commercial and project-delivery judgement, including the ability to manage priorities, programmes, risks and client expectations.
• Communication: Confident communication and relationship-building skills, with the credibility to operate independently with clients, and coordinate project delivery across multi-disciplinary teams
• Technical Qualifications: A relevant Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering or aligned engineering qualification from a Washington Accord-accredited university. Chartered status is desirable.

Why this is the perfect opportunity for you

• Join New Zealand’s largest dedicated industrial Process Systems practice, with a strong pipeline of dairy, food and industrial manufacturing work across Aotearoa New Zealand.
• Step into meaningful technical, project and client ownership in a Tier 1 Engineering Consulting firm, with clear opportunities to grow into broader leadership as the practice plans for its future.
• A diverse and inclusive working environment, with a close-knit and supportive team
• Flexible working options to support your lifestyle commitments, as well as relocation support available for the right candidate.
• Check out some of the meaningful employee benefits we offer

Who We Are

We are an engineering consultancy with more than 6,000 people across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and Asia. We believe the world needs people who can engineer possibilities; people who can create infrastructure that makes life better for people and the planet. That is why we are here: to bring ideas to life, the Aurecon way.

Te whakahā i ngā whakaaro | Breathing life into our ideas, thoughts, views

Kia māia, kia kaha, mahi tahi | Be bold, be strong, work as one