Project Director

6 days ago


Tauranga, New Zealand GHD Full time

Join a global professional services leader.

We are committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges in the areas of water, transport and urbanisation.

Our Tauranga team is currently seeking an experienced Project Director to become an integral member of our Northern Water business and take a regional lead in business development.

**Key responsibilities will include**:

- Establish and maintain good business relationships with existing and potential clients to ensure required project outcomes are met and client satisfaction is maintained at a high standard.
- Develop new and repeat business within the Northern region and wider NZ as required - including preparation of proposals and bids for projects, and liaising with Marketing & BD
- Support project delivery as Project Director.
- Provide guidance, training and mentoring to team members on projects.
- Provide technical input and leadership to projects
- Preparation/ review/ contribution to high quality reports, correspondence and other deliverables.
- Support collaboration with other GHD Regions particularly Australia, UK, Manila and Fiji/Pacific.

**What you will bring to the team**:

- Strong leadership skills and industry profile
- Articulate, professional and self-confident
- Strong analytical thinker
- Project/Client problem solving focus
- Focused on the delivery of high quality output.
- Strong judgment and decisiveness, bias for action
- Drive a high-performance culture through effective leadership and mentoring.

**What's in it for you**:

- Insurances paid for by GHD (life, trauma and income protection)
- Up to 20 days extra leave with our holiday buy -back scheme
- Daily interaction with high performing teams
- Professional development and ongoing training
- Competitive remuneration
- Flexible working arrangements for work-life balance
- Opportunities to learn from our industry experts and technical gurus across APAC.
- A highly supportive and collaborative team environment
- We will set you up for success with the latest hardware, tools and tech

**Ki GHD, ka ākina te kaimahi e mātou kia tutuki ōna ake moemoeā. Nā te mea, ko te kaha o te tangata te tuarā o te pakihi. Nā reira, he hiahia nō mātou ki te whiwhi kaimahi nō ngā ahurea tuakiri maha, nō whenua rerekē, tane mai, wahine mai.**

We respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage.

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**Why GHD?**

Being the best we can be is in our culture.
We are a family of smart, innovative and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.

**Our commitment to you**

Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

Our Commitment to you

**Who we**
**are**

We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation. GHD is a global professional services company that is a leader in engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals, yet we are proudly ‘One GHD’ across more than 200 offices, spanning five continents - Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are passionate about building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.

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