Senior Location & Portfolio Manager - NZ Energy Projects

Worley; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible & hybrid work

Career development

Parental leave 22 weeks

Competitive remuneration

Global online learning

Job summary

Worley is seeking a Senior Portfolio/Location Manager to lead and grow our Auckland & Tauranga teams, championing delivery across a diverse project portfolio. You will develop people, ensure technical excellence, and drive safe, high-quality outcomes across feasibility through commissioning stages.

This senior leadership role requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and a commitment to an inclusive, high-performing culture. NZ working rights and a hybrid working setup are expected.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading engineering and project teams in consulting, engineering, energy, water, resources, chemicals, infrastructure or industrial environments.
• Strong leadership, coaching and people development capabilities.
• Experience delivering projects through feasibility studies, FEED, detailed design, construction support and commissioning.
• Sound judgement in identifying delivery risk and challenging project performance.
• Excellent communication, influencing and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead our teams in all aspects of engineering and project delivery.
• Lead local business development activities and support the pursuit of new opportunities.
• Support project teams through proposal development, technical reviews and problem solving.
• Support resource planning, workforce capability development, succession planning and recruitment activities.
• Drive consistency in project engineering practices, standards and quality management processes.
• Collaborate with customers and multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative and practical solutions.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, innovation and growth.
• Promote a strong culture of safety, inclusion and technical excellence.

Skills

Leadership

People development

Project delivery

Stakeholder management

Communication

Risk management

Commercial awareness

Safety culture

Job description

Worley is seeking a Senior Portfolio/Location Manager to lead and grow our Auckland & Tauranga teams, championing delivery across a diverse project portfolio. You will develop people, ensure technical excellence, and drive safe, high-quality outcomes across feasibility through commissioning stages.

This senior leadership role requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and a commitment to an inclusive, high-performing culture. NZ working rights and a hybrid working setup are expected.