Nz Sector Lead

Company Description Bring your bold ideas and big dreams. 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. 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. **Job Description**: Our energy business across Australia and New Zealand is fast responding to a rapidly transitioning to a low carbon and renewable energy future. This is being driven by the growing climate imperative, the changing governments priorities towards energy transition and reducing cost of renewables. As a result, we are seeing unprecedent investment in utility scale renewable energy projects and decarbonisation opportunities across our client base. The investment requires strong collaboration cross our teams to ensure we are able to leverage these opportunities and support our clients and the market achieve its goals as we target net zero ambition. AECOM have a long history providing planning, advisory, engineering investigations, feasibility studies, detailed design, construction support, owner’s engineer and asset management services to our key clients and on large, complex brownfield and greenfield projects. This director level role has responsibility for the overall success of the Transmission & Distribution (T&D) team, within our NZ Energy business line. The T&D team is spread across our regional offices, in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Hamilton. The regional teams collaborate nationally across a diverse range of projects servicing a diverse range of clients that are regionally based as well the national transmission grid operator, Transpower. This includes accountability for the strategy, growth and development of T&D business, and contribution to growth and achievement of the wider NZ Energy business. **Qualifications**: + Appropriate technical qualification + >20 years of relevant experience including a successful track record in field of expertise and substantial project experience + Demonstrated commercial acumen, and the ability to develop a strong client base + Demonstrated business development and work winning skills + Excellent interpersonal skills; able to communicate effectively with people at all levels and adapt messaging appropriate to audience. + Demonstrated leadership skills including technical leadership, people engagement, innovation and motivation Additional Information 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**: J10097681 **Business Line**: E