Water Engineer

NPAworldwide; Auckland; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NPAworldwide Auckland is seeking a Senior Water Engineer to lead stormwater and wastewater projects, shaping design and delivery across multi-disciplinary teams. You will engage with clients and councils, steering programs and budgets while mentoring junior engineers.

The role emphasizes practical, community-impact work on Auckland's three-waters infrastructure, with opportunities to specialise and progress to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Civil or Environmental Engineering.
• Experience in stormwater, wastewater, or wider three-waters infrastructure.
• CPEng status preferred for Senior-level applicants.
• Experience managing projects through construction phase.

Responsibilities

• Technical studies, design, and reporting for stormwater and wastewater infrastructure, and wider three-waters projects.
• Input into proposals and project planning
• Managing or contributing to design packages, working to programme and budget
• Liaising with clients, councils, and project stakeholders
• Technical leadership and mentoring junior engineers (Senior level)

Skills

Stormwater design

Technical leadership

Project management

Client liaison

Mentoring juniors

Education

Civil/Environmental Engineering (Washington Accord)

Job description

Job Description

The Role:

Auckland's water infrastructure is under real, visible pressure population growth, ageing pipe networks, and increasingly severe weather events. If you want engineering work with actual community impact rather than abstract box-ticking, this is it: the projects you touch directly affect how the city copes with flooding, growth, and climate resilience.

What Makes This One Worth Applying For

• Meaningful, visible work not just technical design in a vacuum
• Mix of new infrastructure and upgrades to ageing networks, so genuine variety
• Chance to specialise in stormwater/wastewater, a space with strong long-term demand
• Real client and community-facing exposure, not just deskbound modelling

Responsibilities

• Technical studies, design, and reporting for stormwater and wastewater infrastructure, and wider three-waters projects
• Input into proposals and project planning
• Managing or contributing to design packages, working to programme and budget
• Liaising with clients, councils, and project stakeholders
• Technical leadership and mentoring junior engineers (Senior level)

About You

• Tertiary qualification in Civil or Environmental Engineering
• Experience in stormwater, wastewater, or wider three-waters infrastructure
• CPEng status (or equivalent) preferred for Senior-level applicants
• Experience managing projects through to construction phase (Senior level)

Other Roles Available: We're also recruiting Water Engineers across Auckland at other levels Graduate through to Principal and Technical Director covering Auckland CBD, Newmarket, Pukekohe, and Rosedale.

Qualifications

Washington Accord - Civil or Environmental Engineering

Why Is This a Great Opportunity

This role puts you at the sharp end of one of Auckland's most pressing challenges helping the city actually cope with growth, flooding, and climate pressure, rather than working through abstract technical exercises. You'll get genuine variety between new builds and network upgrades, room to specialise in a discipline with strong long-term demand, and real client and community-facing exposure instead of being deskbound the whole time.

Salary Type : Annual Salary

Salary Min : NZ$ 110000

Salary Max : NZ$ 130000

Currency Type : NZD