Geotechnical Engineer

Mott Macdonald has a new, exciting opportunity for a Geotechnical Engineer to join our growing team, based in either Auckland or Wellington.

Your focus will be on ANZ projects, but you will also support other offices globally by providing internal support services related to tunnelling, foundations, retaining structures and slopes and interpretations on civil infrastructure projects.

• As part of the wider Geotechnical team, you will be mentored and supported by senior team members. Where required you will prepare specifications and reports and carry out site inspections as well as attend client meetings and manage the client interface on progressively larger and more complex projects.
• In this varied role, your day to day activities will include:
• Working with internal and external clients as a member of the geotechnical team
• Assisting in scoping geotechnical aspects of projects
• Supervision of drafting personnel
• Site inspections and reporting
• Field monitoring and data assessment
• Advising our internal professionals in our roads, tunnel, aviation, water, and structural engineering groups
• Assisting as a team member on geotechnical related projects
• Preparation of reports and specifications
• You will be a degree qualified Civil Engineer or Geotechnical Engineer. This role suits someone with a few years post graduate experience, who is looking to develop alongside a team of high performing geotechnical professionals.
• With a solid base of technical knowledge and experience in geotechnical projects, we seek a person who is technically focussed but able to be client minded with great allround skills in presentation and communication.
• In addition to the above, you will have:
• Experience in ground characterisation
• Experience in seismic assessments and design
• Experience in geotechnical design
• Experience in project management
• Appreciation of engineering risk
• Developing an understanding of commercial risk.
• Preparedness to innovate and think outside the square

In turn you'll be working on significant projects that shape the communities in which we live.

You will build connections with our local and international experts and bring this knowledge to our clients and to their projects.

We adopt a pioneering mindset to meet our challenges head on.

• You'll also have access to a number of company benefits including increased Employer KiwiSaver contribution, agile working, life insurance, coaching and mentoring and our Purchase Leave policy, to name a few
• 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 a wholly independent, employeeowned 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.
• Our successes over the past years have seen us take significant roles on a range of NZ landmark and country shaping projects including:
• Lake Onslow NZ Battery project
• Auckland Airport's new Domestic Terminal
• Auckland City Rail Link
• Rosedale WWTP expansion
• Seascape Residential Tower, Auckland (tallest occupied tower under construction)
• Milldale and Drury South development projects

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.
More about Mott MacDonald
We're a global engineering, management and development consultancy.

• Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients' businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
• A fundamental part of this is respecting each person's differences and striving to meet their needs.
• Our values: progress, respect, integrity, drive, excellence

Job Ref

• 60553BR

Recruiter Contact

• Louis Knight-Adams

Country

• New Zealand

Region/State

• Auckland, Wellington

Discipline

• Consultancy, Geotechnical and tunnelling

Sector

• Transport

Website Region

• Australasia

Website Sector

• Transport

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