Mott MacDonald Looking for Senior Project Manager at Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

Permanent

Work pattern

Full time

Position Location

Auckland, New Zealand

Job Description

Our busy and growing water team in Auckland is currently seeking a Senior Project Manager.

As part of our dynamic team, you will manage projects from the early phases through to construction phase monitoring, and drive projects to an effective and successful conclusion. You will manage relationships with the relevant stakeholders including the client, consultants, contractors, and internal staff.

Our portfolio includes three waters reticulation systems, and pump stations projects and three-waters modelling, planning and design studies. We work within New Zealand, Australasia, the Americas, Europe including the United Kingdom through our Mott MacDonald’s international community.

Joining Mott MacDonald will provide you with exciting opportunities to work alongside industry-leading professionals on a wide range of water projects within the Asia Pacific region and beyond. Based in our offices in Central Auckland, you will work in an environment that fosters career growth and development and challenges you to achieve more.

The role involves collaborating closely with design teams to ensure project success, leading and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams, implementing and maintaining projects controls such as scheduling, risk management, and cost control, strengthening client relationships, monitoring project progress and reporting to stakeholders, promoting continuous improvement through sharing lessons learned and coaching/mentoring, as well as leading or supporting proposals.

Candidate Specification

The ideal candidate will tertiary qualified with at least five years’ experience in project management. They will also have excellent client relationship management, communication, organisational and report writing skills. Furthermore, they should be comfortable working to tight timeframes and dealing with conflicts and project delivery challenges.

In turn you’ll be working on significant projects that shape the communities in which we live. You will build connections with our local team and be a part of a great global business.

You’ll also have access to many company benefits including increased Employer KiwiSaver contribution, agile working, life insurance, coaching and mentoring and our Purchase Leave policy, to name a few!

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

There’s no time like the present to make a change.

Job Profile

Mott MacDonald NZ is a dynamic and innovative engineering, management and development consultancy working with high profile clients across New Zealand. We are an independent, employee-owned company with strong local leadership and autonomy.

We have a supportive and collaborative culture which values equality and diversity, and we take proactive steps to create an inclusive workplace.

Other Information

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.

Job Ref

63797BR

Recruiter Contact

Louis Knight-Adams

Country

New Zealand

Region/State

Auckland

Discipline

Consultancy, Project controls, Water

Sector

Water

Website Region

Australasia

Website Sector

Water and wastewater