Technical Director Water Treatment - Auckland - ref. d87811719

Mott MacDonald New Zealand is a team of experts who enjoy sharing success in delivering awesome projects such as Christchurch’s Te Kaha Stadium, Lake Onslow Pumped Hydro Scheme Feasibility, Seascape Tower, Auckland Airport upgrades, and numerous complex wastewater treatment plants across New Zealand, including Snells Beach Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Our locally based teams are deeply committed to the communities they serve. Over the years, we’ve played pivotal roles in strategic projects across New Zealand. Our diverse team, comprising skilled engineers, project managers, leaders, digital designers, and advisors, is dedicated to shaping the communities in which we live.

We are looking for an experienced leader with Water Treatment to join us. In this role, your primary responsibility would be to support the growth and development of our treatment team consisting of Mechanical and Process Engineers in Auckland, working with our other discipline managers in Wellington and Auckland.

You will also contribute to the planning and design of various projects, including large municipal, commercial onsite, and industrial trade wastewater & water treatment plants; pump stations; chemical dosing systems; and many other industrial mechanical installations.

You will need design experience primarily in water and/or wastewater treatment plants and conveyancing to join us in delivering exciting projects across New Zealand.

As a key leader in our water team, this role would see you responsible for line management, coordination of resourcing with other offices and discipline managers; providing discipline specific bid and project teams, including the appropriate use of other offices and global teams; managing team utilisation; planning and managing staff skills and capability development.

Your technical background will allow you to coordinate the preparation, as well as review and manage production of designs, technical and commercial specifications, drawings, and schedules on a range of projects, whilst providing support and mentoring to build the capacity of junior engineers and actively lead development of the treatment team.

You would work in close partnership with our Clients and Contractors through all design phases and into the construction phase. This role will give you an opportunity to develop your leadership skills and profile within the Wellington Region, whilst contributing to the delivery of treatment projects across Aotearoa.?

About You:

A passion for delivering high quality water projects for our communities, and the ability and energy to work in a team environment is highly desirable. Your well-developed interpersonal skills with an ability to influence and guide key stakeholders will set you up for success from the start of your career at Mott MacDonald.?

The successful candidate for this role would have proven experience in team leadership and project delivery. In particular, you should also have expertise in the delivery for both new and existing treatment plants. Ideally, you will have a degree in Environmental, Civil, Mechanical or Process Engineering, and be a Chartered Engineer or progressing towards being Chartered.?

You’ve got this!?

This is a great opportunity to join a global consultancy that is growing and is pushing ahead in the local market. If you are looking for an opportunity to work in a fast-growing business with an organisation that is shaping the communities in which we live, then we would encourage you to apply for the above position and join our world class consultancy.

We are committed to fostering a culture that empowers our people, promotes teamwork and embraces sustainability.

If you don't tick every box in this ad, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our values of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, and integrity. So, if this role resonates with you, please send through your application.