Project Manager

Beca; Wellington; On-site; NZD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Project Manager to lead innovative Power, Energy, and Renewable projects in Wellington. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance your project management skills while delivering complex projects that meet rigorous technical, time, and cost requirements. You will collaborate with a diverse team, ensuring projects are completed to high standards while fostering strong relationships with clients and stakeholders. If you are passionate about project delivery and eager to take on new challenges in a supportive environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Several years of project management experience in consultancy.
• Strong communication and relationship management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead diverse and complex power projects ensuring timely delivery.
• Build credible relationships with clients and technical experts.

Skills

Project Management

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Business Development

Relationship Management

Education

Experience in Consultancy Environment

Job description

Project Manager, Power (Wellington)

• Project Delivery role, being the go-to person delivering complex, diverse, and challenging Power, Energy, and Renewable projects, with rigorous scope, technical, time and cost requirements.
• Champion project delivery, within a supportive and diverse team culture.
• Develop your career in a broad role with a variety of projects enabling you to step change your project management skill set.

Te whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

Lead design projects, lifting project delivery excellence across power, energy, and renewable related projects. You will be a project expert contributing to the delivery of energy related transmission, generation and renewable energy projects. You will utilise strong project management skills to manage internal teams and client relationships ensuring projects are completed to time, cost, scope and quality. This is a unique opportunity to join the Beca Power business, working on projects throughout New Zealand and Australia, based in the Beca Wellington office.

Working at Beca will provide you with access to a truly multi-discipline business where you can draw on technical experts to support delivery of significant and complex projects, across the power, energy, and renewables domain. You will gain exposure to a wide base of consulting services in a highly collaborative business, that is employee owned. Significant career opportunities exist across functions, disciplines, people leadership, management or delivery roles depending on how you want to shape your career.

Mōu ake | About you

Grow your Project Management career in this role where you will have plenty of scope for success. You will enjoy being a trusted advisor, with a passion for project delivery and achieving client outcomes, across the technical requirements within the Power, Energy, and Renewables sector. You will have the ability to lead and manage projects, building credible relationships across technical experts, clients, and contractors, with the ability to guide, collaborate, influence, and instigate project conversations to ensure delivery. You will know when to encourage, thank, support and challenge teams, including having courageous conversations when required.

You will be energetic and passionate with a bias for action, known for working with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders to make things happen. You will enjoy building relationships and understand key project requirements, leading people, and commercial acumen. You will have current project management and delivery experience, with a background within the professional services or consulting sector being important for success.

You may have run projects of different scope and scale previously and be ready to make that next step in the complexity, diversity, and scale of Power related projects you work on. You will also be ready for increased responsibilities across the commercial outcomes of a project, with the desire to learn.

Role

To be successful in this role, you will bring several years’ experience, ideally in a consultancy environment with a delivery focus (this role won’t suit those at a graduate or at the start of their careers). You will also:

• Be organised, adaptable and able to think outside the box.
• Have good inter-personal skills.
• Be a great communicator; able to explain complex issues to a range of user groups.
• Have experience managing project teams.
• Be confident with business development and have advanced relationship management skills.
• Be able to champion delivery across the business.

This position will provide you with wide exposure and create opportunities for career and professional development across the Beca business, both locally and across Australasia.

Beca Power Business

Our Power team work throughout New Zealand and Australia on high-value projects including traditional high voltage power infrastructure as well as innovative smart grids, intelligent power networks and renewable power generation. We've honed our skills over many years providing solutions to our power generation, transmission, and distribution clients across Australasia. Learn more about our projects, practice and people here: https://www.beca.com/powerteam.

Mō mātou | About us

Beca is one of Asia Pacific’s largest independent advisory, design, and engineering consultancies. After a century of operation, we have grown from a family-owned business to one of the most progressive, client-centric professional services consultancies in our region. We have more than 4,000 employees in 25 offices around the world and have delivered projects in more than 70 countries. ‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose – to make everyday better. Find out more about us at www.beca.com.

Tonoa mai! | Apply now!

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