Senior Digital Engineer

Auckland Airport; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Auckland Airport, New Zealand’s gateway for travel and logistics, is seeking a Senior Digital Engineer to ensure asset information is accurate and usable across the capital programme. You will define digital delivery expectations, BIM execution plans, and a Common Data Environment from day one.

You will lead a small team of Digital Engineering specialists, ensuring BIM models and reality capture data stay current and aligned with project and operational needs.

Qualifications

• 14+ years of experience in large-scale, complex infrastructure projects.
• 5+ years configuring and using information management systems (PDM, BIM, GIS, EAM).
• Strong understanding of GIS and asset information systems.
• Excellent communication and coordination across multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in Engineering/Architecture/Construction Management/Information Management is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Engage with projects at inception to assess digital delivery capability and set BIM/data obligations.
• Define and embed digital delivery requirements (AIDM, BIM execution plans, CDE).
• Maintain currency and accuracy of BIM models and spatial data for the Digital Twin.
• Collaborate with Spatial Data & Technology Lead to align with operations.
• Coordinate collection and delivery of as-built models, drawings, specifications, and asset attributes.
• Maintain and enforce Asset Information Requirements across projects.
• Support Digital Twin and predictive analytics initiatives.
• Build relationships with Engineering Services, Operations, and Compliance.

Skills

Digital engineering

BIM

GIS

Asset information management

Communication

Education

Engineering/Architecture/Construction Management/Information Management

Tools

BIM software

GIS software

Project Document Management Systems

Enterprise Asset Management systems

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.