Principal Design Engineer

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

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.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you 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.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future.

**Job Description**:
Our Civil Infrastructure team is looking to appoint a Design Lead on a number of sizeable projects we are delivering across New Zealand. This role will be responsible for reviewing technical quality of engineering and design tasks while supporting the Programme Manager to ensure on time and budget project delivery. Working closely with the wider team and managing relationships is a key element of this role. In this role, you will assume responsibility for monitoring the outcomes of the programme with specific oversight over the technical engineering inputs.

+ Management of Engineering and Design team

+ Oversight of the overall management of resources required for specialist design and engineering inputs;
+ Coordinate engineering, utilities, drawing, mapping and cost estimation resources for timely and effective programme delivery;
+ Verification of overall engineering and design processes and outputs;
+ Manage engineering/design processes and deliverables to track and report timeliness of delivery, scope and budget

+ Work collaboratively with Technical leads and Wider Programme Team;
+ Perform active risk management to minimise engineering and assessment risks;
+ Issue regular reports on the engineering team to the Lead Engineering Advisor;
+ Hold weekly meetings with the engineering team;
+ Collection and reporting on lessons learned throughout the programme lifecycle;
About You

+ Proven minimum 10 years’ experience

+ Ability to manage resources across multiple work streams;
+ Experience delivering projects with a high level of public visibility and interest;
+ Experience bringing together a cohesive team on complex projects

+ Strong understanding of the business case and integrated Transport Assessment processes, and approvals processes

**Qualifications**:
+ Civil Engineering degree

+ CPEng Preferable

Additional Information

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM 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.

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.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM 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 impac