Principal Transport Engineer

WSP in Canada; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP Auckland is seeking a Principal Transport Engineer to provide consultancy services in transport engineering and planning, focusing on analysis, reporting, design, and supervision. You will lead teams across projects to ensure timely, on-budget delivery and high-quality outcomes.

The role requires 8+ years in transportation infrastructure, a relevant degree, and CPEng or equivalent, with experience in business development and leading projects within a global firm.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in transportation infrastructure, transport engineering and planning.
• Relevant tertiary qualification to the discipline.
• Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or equivalent.
• Minimum of WSP PMAF Level 2 accreditation or equivalent; 5+ years leading projects in the discipline.
• Experience developing new business to increase revenue and expand market penetration.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultancy services to clients in transport engineering and planning focused on analysis, reporting, design and supervision.
• Lead project teams to deliver on time, within budget and to high quality standards.
• Provide expert engineering support to project managers and clients for cost efficiency and quality.
• Lead or contribute as Project Manager/Technical Lead and ensure procedures are followed.
• Engage in business development activities with clients under client relationship managers.

Skills

Project leadership

Transport engineering

Client relationship

Budgeting & fees

Business development

Education

Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status

Engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

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.

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.

Principal Transport Engineer

• Provide consultancy services to clients in the areas of transport engineering and planning with a focus on analysis, reporting, design and supervision.
• Be an active member of the team, contributing to the success of the Transport Infrastructure sub-sector in meeting its business plan.
• Provide highly expert engineering support to the team in the provision of professional services to project managers and clients to ensure quality, efficiency and cost effectiveness of those services.
• Provide leadership and/or inputs on project teams (Project Manager / Technical Lead as appropriate), ensuring WSP Project Management procedures are followed.
• Promote best practice and technical excellence by applying sound technical review practices and taking a leading role in delivery of key or strategic projects
• Lead transport engineering on projects, ensuring appropriate technical reviews, verifications and audits are completed according to WSP procedures
• 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:

• 8+ years professional experience within the field of transportation infrastructure, transport engineering and planning.
• Relevant tertiary qualification to the Discipline
• Chartered Professional Engineering (CPEng) status or equivalent
• Minimum of WSP PMAF Level 2 accreditation or equivalent Minimum of 5 years of professional experience leading projects in the Discipline
• Experience in developing new business by identifying and capitalising on opportunities to increase revenue and/or profit and expand market penetration
  
  
  

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