Consultant, Risk

Just imagine your future with us...

At Aurecon we see the future through a very different lens. Do you?

Innovation, eminence, and digital are at the heart of everything we do. Are you excited about the future?

Are you driven by the opportunity to shape Aotearoa as you work on some of the most challenging and complex projects and to learn from the best? We are.

We embrace flexible, hybrid working and have embedded this into our culture. Our people choose when and where we work that works best for our work community (clients, team, stakeholders), for us, and for our work. We offer flexible leave options, including the ability to purchase additional annual leave along with our Cultural Public Holiday Swap option to swap out public holidays each year to celebrate festivals or special days that are culturally important to you.

We were the first engineering consultancy to offer a Shared Care policy that offers paid parental leave options that support both primary and secondary careers over and above, and in addition to Government-provided parental leave.

We believe that diversity of background and experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, clients, and communities. Our goal is to be recognised as an employer of choice for all, irrespective of gender, ethnicity, generation, flexible work status, family circumstances, sexual orientation, or disability. Further details can be found on our website.

What will you do?

In this role, you will be always be challenged You will work with businesses and government to shape a more equitable future for Aotearoa New Zealand to enable people, places, and businesses to thrive for generations. To realise this vision, a transformation is underway in how government and industry invests, designs, and delivers infrastructure. You will play an instrumental role in realising this vision with your work to better schools and hospitals, transforming the water sector, decarbonising industry, and national building infrastructure projects.

We're an Infrastructure Advisory team where we know that the work we do is vital in assisting our world's economic development, and it's the technical expertise and the depth of knowledge of our people that really sets us apart. We work closely with our technical teams to provide our clients with this combined offering and become their trusted advisor.

Here are the key things that you will do to bring ideas to life:

- Assist clients to navigate challenges and help them solve complex problems. Often, these problems require an understanding of how social, economic, or financial value is delivered, whether that is to customers, shareholders, or taxpayers
- Produce professional, visually-engaging deliverables for clients to effectively convey our complex analyses into a tidy and easily digestible format, including business cases and other similar investment decision-making tools

What can you bring to the team?

You will share our genuine passion for re-imagining the future of Aotearoa and be someone that actively pursues continuous learning to help shape this vision.
- A track record of working with a team to bring ideas to life
- Have delivered, ideally in a consulting capacity, some of the following services
- Business Continuing Planning (BIA workshops, BCP development/review, BCP testing/simulations, business interruption reviews)
- Incident Response, Crisis Management Planning (playbook development/review, testing/simulations)
- Disaster Recovery Planning (testing/simulations, reputation management)
- Supply Chain Risk Management (reviews, resiliency improvement, testing/simulations)
- Enterprise Risk (policy, framework, governance, processes, audit, maturity, risk register development, risk appetite identification)
- Scenario Planning / War Gaming (scenario identification, testing/simulations)
- Strong communication and numerical skills for report writing and presentations
- The ability to find pragmatic solutions to real world problems
- A broad set of experiences at and outside work that help you inform your growing problem-solving skills
- A relevant tertiary qualification such as Engineering, Business, Science, Economics
- Strong Microsoft Suite skills, particularly PowerPoint
- Confident at driving deliverables and coordinating between multiple technical teams and/or stakeholders

Our Aurecon Attributes describe the types of people we bring together and there will be at least one that resonates strongly with you. Because of this, we know that each of our team members brings something different to Aurecon.

About us

We've re-imagined engineering.

Aurecon is an engineering and advisory company; just not as you know it

For a start, our clients' ideas drive what we do. Drawing on our deep pool of expertise, we co-create and deliver innovative solutions with our clients to some of the worlds' most complex challenges. And through a range of unique creative processes and skills, we work to re-imagin