Roading Contracts Engineer | Flexible, Impactful Roads

Join Our Team; Waikato; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP Paeroa Civil Infrastructure seeks a Senior/Principal Engineer to drive roading asset management and network performance. You will work embedded with a key client five days a week in the Thames-Coromandel region, delivering strategic advice and technical delivery.

You will lead asset management projects, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and build trusted client relationships to grow asset information and data analytics services regionally and nationally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or a related discipline.
• 8–10 years’ experience in a comparable civil engineering role with asset management.
• Chartered status or progress toward accreditation.
• Experience with asset information management and data analytics.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic asset management and network performance advisory services.
• Deliver data analytics and asset management deliverables to clients.
• Apply asset management standards, NZ standards, and ISO guidance.
• Lead delivery of asset management projects with scope, budget, and risk control.
• Provide leadership across multidisciplinary teams and ensure high-quality outcomes.
• Build relationships with clients and support growth of data services.

Skills

Asset management

Network performance

Project management

Client engagement

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Chartered Engineer status or progress

Tools

Asset information management software

Job description

Senior or Principal Engineer - Asset and Network Performance (Transportation/Roading)

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Senior or Principal Engineer - Asset and Network Performance (Transportation/Roading)

Join our Paeroa Civil Infrastructure team in a senior technical and project delivery role focused on roading asset management and network performance. You will work in a fully embedded capacity alongside a key client five days a week within the Thames-Coromandel region, providing strategic advice, technical expertise and practical project support and delivery.

What you'll do

• Provide strategic and advisory asset management and network performance consultancy services across transportation infrastructure projects.
• Deliver specialist asset information management advice, technical guidance, data analytics and asset management deliverables.
• Apply relevant asset management standards, legislation, codes of practice, New Zealand Standards and emerging ISO standards.
• Undertake technical reviews and verification activities, and develop practical, innovative solutions to client challenges.
• Lead the successful delivery of asset management projects, managing scope, programme, budget, quality, risk, and client outcomes.
• Provide project leadership across multidisciplinary teams, coordinating resources, monitoring performance, and ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and to a high standard.
• Build trusted relationships with clients and stakeholders, and support the growth of asset management, network modelling and related data services across the region and nationally.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary specialists across WSP to deliver technically excellent, client-focused outcomes.

About you

• A bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a relevant discipline.
• At least 8-10 years of professional experience in a comparable civil engineering role, including asset management and network performance.
• Experience in project management, client engagement and business development.
• Chartered Professional Engineer status, or progress towards professional accreditation.
• Local government and NZTA experience is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of asset management, asset information management and data analytics techniques, standards and practices.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to manage project scope, programme, risk, quality and financial performance.
• Clear communication, sound judgement and a collaborative, client-centred approach.

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