Senior Digital Engineer

Auckland Airport; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Auckland Airport is seeking a Senior Digital Engineer to lead digital delivery for its capital works and Asset Information Models. You will define data requirements, BIM standards, and CDE setups to keep models accurate for project and operations teams.

You will work with project teams, asset owners, and stakeholders to ensure data is current, accessible, and usable, enabling improved decision-making and risk management across the programme.

Qualifications

• 14+ years of experience on large scale and complex infrastructure projects.
• 5+ years’ experience configuring and using information management systems (e.g., PDM, BIM, GIS, EAM).
• Strong understanding of GIS and asset information systems and protocols.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Engage with projects at inception to assess contractor digital delivery capability and ensure BIM and data obligations are set before procurement closes.
• Identify opportunities to introduce digital tools and techniques for project visibility and risk management across the capital programme.
• Define and embed digital delivery requirements for capital projects (AIDM, BIM execution plans, CDE configuration, metadata standards).
• Maintain currency and accuracy of BIM models and spatial data underpinning Auckland Airport's Digital Twin.
• Collaborate with Spatial Data & Technology Lead to align record models with operational changes and asset updates.
• Coordinate collection, validation, and delivery of record information (as-built models, drawings, specs, asset attributes).
• Maintain and enforce Asset Information Requirements across all projects.
• Support future capabilities like Digital Twin and predictive analytics.
• Build strong relationships with Engineering Services, Operations, and Compliance to meet information needs.

Skills

BIM

Digital engineering

Asset information management

GIS knowledge

Communication

Coordination

Tools

Project Document Management Systems

Building Information Management

Geographical Information Systems

Enterprise Asset Management systems

Common Data Environment (CDE)

Job description

Auckland Airport stands proudly as the gateway to Aotearoa, welcoming travellers beginning their journeys, farewelling Kiwis to new destinations, connecting businesses and workers to new opportunities, and celebrating partners and investors who back us along the way. We have ambitions to be a global hub and a comprehensive development programme to deliver this vision.

Auckland Airport is delivering a significant capital works programme. The Senior Digital Engineer ensures this investment produces accurate, usable asset information that supports the business long after construction. The role sets projects up to deliver the right information by defining digital delivery expectations, including required data, formats, timing, contract requirements, BIM Execution Plans, and Common Data Environment (CDE) set up from day one.

About the role

The role is responsible for working with a small team of Digital Engineering specialists, ensures BIM models, and reality capture data supporting Auckland Airport's Asset Information Models stay current, accurate, and useful to project and operational teams. It maintains active engagement with project teams, asset owners, and operational stakeholders, resolving issues, and keeping data on track.

Some of your key responsibilities will be:

• Engage with projects at inception to assess contractor digital delivery capability and ensure BIM and data obligations are established before procurement closes.
• Identify opportunities to introduce digital tools and techniques that enhance project visibility, decision-making, and risk management across the capital programme.
• Define and embed Auckland Airport’s digital delivery requirements for all capital projects, including AIDM, BIM execution plans, CDE configuration, and metadata standards.
• Maintain accountability for the currency and accuracy of the BIM models and spatial data that underpin Auckland Airport's Digital Twin, ensuring they reflect the current state of the asset base and remain actively useful to project and operational teams.
• Collaborate with Spatial Data & Technology Lead to keep record models aligned with operational changes and asset updates.
• Coordinate the collection, validation, and delivery of record information, including as-built models, drawings, specifications, and asset attributes.
• Maintain and enforce Asset Information Requirements across all projects.
• Support initiatives that enable future capabilities such as Digital Twin and predictive analytics.
• Build strong relationships with internal teams such as Engineering Services, Operations, and Compliance to ensure information needs are understood and met.

What you’ll bring to the role

At Auckland Airport, we are a busy hive of activity, and a lot of what we look for is how you would align with our values Respectful, Collaborative, We Care, IntegrityandExceptional.

To ensure your success in this role, you will need:

• 14 years + working experience within large scale and complex infrastructure projects.
• Including 5+ years’ experience configuring and using information management systems (i.e. Project Document Management Systems, Building Information Management, Geographical Information Systems, Enterprise Asset Management systems, or similar).
• Strong understanding of GIS, asset information systems and protocols.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills across multidisciplinary teams
• Experience in either Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Information Management, Geospatial, or a closely related field, and working within large infrastructure or capital works programs is desirable.

About us

Auckland Airport is more than just a business. It’s a truly unique place with an important role to play in New Zealand’s recovery. Together we’re its custodians, knowing that the work we do has the power to create positive change for our customers, the community, the environment and for the prosperity of Aotearoa. We’re all about creating a sense of place where everyone can thrive, and one where others aspire to work. We’re a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcome people from all walks of life.

Please note that applications will be reviewed continuously throughout the recruitment period, and appointments may be made before the official closing date of the advert.