Associate or Technical Director

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. Join us and let’s get started.

**Job Description**:
AECOM’s award-winning national Cost Management practice has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Quantity Surveyor / Cost Manager to join our highly successful multi-discipline team in Auckland.

Reporting to our NZ Practice Leader - Cost Management, the Technical Director provides leadership to the business and will build and strengthen our long-term client relationships and raise our profile and reputation in the market. The Technical Director will contribute to the strategic growth of the business and be an active and visible champion of change for the services we offer to our clients.

Working closely with our Team Leaders, you will be responsible for the delivery of cost management / quantity surveying services on some of Wellington’s most iconic projects, giving you a senior opportunity to further develop your career and client exposure to a range of market sectors.

Tasks will include, but are not limited to:

- Cost planning and estimating during design phase
- Leading and guiding teams of Cost Managers/ Quantity Surveyors
- Construction phase cost and project management
- Managing cost, budget and timelines of multiple projects in parallel
- Assisting with feasibility studies, capital cost advice
- Client relationship management
- Life-cycle costing.

**Qualifications**:
We are looking for an effective leader with tenacity and drive to achieve outstanding results, who can develop meaningful relationships with key clients in the local market.

This role is ideal for a proven professional who is looking to lead and guide cost managers across diverse projects setting the next challenge in your career. This is a fantastic and influential opportunity to operate across a variety of sectors, including Healthcare, Education, Civil Infrastructure, Industrial, Defence, Energy and Commercial. At AECOM, our Cost Management business benefits from integrated cost / design opportunities and global reach enabling our team to provide a higher standard of consulting.

To be successful in this role, you will be a team player with proven interpersonal skills and experience in the following areas:

- Relevant tertiary qualification in Quantity Surveying or similar
- Extensive cost management experience, consultative approach, with proven experience working in a consultancy highly advantageous
- Demonstrated skills in managing multiple project costs and budgets
- Strong knowledge and working practice of local market conditions, Quantity Surveying/Cost Management standards, frameworks and processes, estimating models/methodologies and contract conditions
- Excellent ability to understand and develop project scope in varied construction and engineering project environments
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Proficient in the use of MS Office Suite
- Knowledge of CostX is advantageous, but not essential

Additional Information

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great