Team Leader

Company Description

We encourage you to strengthen your knowledge within and beyond your discipline.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

**Job Description**:
Leading the change toward a sustainable and equitable future.

AECOM is a leading provider of engineering, environment and construction services, and is contributing its deep experience to help strategically plan, develop, design and construct energy infrastructure to not only meet future demands but to deliver sustainable legacies for our clients, community and our planet.

We look at our projects as part of the broader energy system and across the whole life cycle, from commissioning to decommissioning. We help our clients achieve the right balance across the spectrum of generation through renewable energy sources, solar, wind, stored energy, hydropower and fossil fuels; and alternative energy fuels including hydrogen and electrification.

We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

AECOM’s Energy group are looking for a Team Lead in Secondary Systems Design to work across a number of diverse and challenging projects in Transmission and Distribution, while leading a technical team of design engineers. This role will allow a proven engineer to utilise their engineering knowledge and progress their career in a team leadership role.

What will a day in this role look like?

With a strong pipeline of Transmission and Distribution projects awarded across New Zealand we are looking for a substation secondary engineer to support our fantastic team in Wellington. As well as taking on the responsibility of a Team Lead role, you will be involved in project delivery either in a project management or technical capaciity.

+ Leading a team of protection and secondary design engineers which includes:
+ Ensuring the welfare of the team and maintaining a collaborative environment.

+ Safeguarding the wellbeing and safety of team members and ensuring adherence with AECOM policies/procedures.

+ Coordinating and scheduling project teams to successfully execute projects.

+ Being responsible for team KPIs

+ Involvement in business development activities and preparing proposals.

+ Fostering and maintaining strong client relationships.

+ Identifying and driving change in the team to enhance client experience.

**Qualifications**:
+ Proven technical competency in HV substations secondary design with the ability to work independently

+ Leadership experience - people and/or projects

+ Strong interpersonal skills with the drive to achieve outstanding results

+ Strong oral and written communication skills

+ Commercial acumen, and the ability to maintain client base

+ Proven ability to deal with competing demands under tight timeframes

+ Experience working in an engineering consultancy is an advantage

+ Project management experience is an advantage

+ Experience working with NZ clients and local industry knowledge is an advantage.

Additional Information

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

**ReqID**: J10102271

**Business Line**: Energy

**Business Group**: DCS

**Strategic Business Unit**: ANZ

**Career Area**: Engineering

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