Senior Civil Engineer

Senior Civil Engineer – Three Waters

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We're looking for a Senior Civil Engineer (Three Waters) to join our busy and high-performing Property and Infrastructure team. As the Three Waters reform progresses across Aotearoa, Queenstown Lakes District Council remains committed to delivering safe, reliable, and sustainable water services to our communities - now and into the future. We're currently recruiting for this key role within our water services team. These roles are essential to our ability to deliver for the district, whilst we transition to a Water Services Commercial Council-Owned Organisation (WSCCO) under the national reform.

We offer hybrid working practices, a host of employee benefits (including highly discounted access to our health and fitness facilities), and a genuine commitment to your training and career development.

What you'll be doing / He aha te mahi

We're looking for a Senior Civil Engineer (Three Waters) to join our Property and Infrastructure team in Queenstown. You will be responsible for facilitating the high-quality technical delivery of three waters capital infrastructure within the Property and Infrastructure and Community Services departments. You will provide support and guidance to the internal and external teams delivering three waters infrastructure projects across the Lakes District with a view to assure the high quality, consistency and continuity of technical project outcomes.

The role will involve:

• Provide technical support to the Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Delivery & Engineering Manager, and project teams across the capital works programme.
• Ensure quality assurance through design reviews, specification checks, and consistent technical guidance across all project phases.
• Support technical continuity and compliance with QLDC's Land Development and Subdivision Code of Practice (LDSCP).
• Apply sustainable design principles in alignment with QLDC's Climate and Biodiversity Plan.
• Providing technical quality assurance guidance at a project level, through regular liaison with external project teams, with a focus on technical continuity and consistency across the Council's programme of capital works
• Conducting design reviews and ensuring technical continuity across capital works projects
• Undertaking high-level checks of design calculations to support decision making.
• Undertaking project safety in design reviews and contract specification reviews.
• Sitting on the internal technical governance group for project technical gateway approvals.
• Assisting with and guiding the technical scoping of projects, including the review of project scopes/project plans for adoption in the Annual Plan/Long Term Plan.
• Engaging with suppliers and industry professionals for technical guidance
• Champion health and safety, ensuring compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and construction industry standards

What you'll bring to the role
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Ko wai tō Pukeka

Our ideal candidate will have several years of experience working within three waters infrastructure project delivery, with a key area of expertise in design review.

To best succeed in this role, you'll have:

• Bachelor of Engineering or Engineering Diploma with significant relevant experience.
• Experience in infrastructure delivery in a client-side design reviewer role, local or central government experience preferred.
• Practical experience in three waters infrastructure design, risk identification and mitigation, infrastructure planning, sustainable design implementation and design management.
• Experience working to the requirements of Taumata Arowai and the Water Services Act 2021.
• Excellent communication skills, including solid independent technical report writing skills e.g. infrastructure reports.
• A current and valid New Zealand Driver's License.
• Knowledge and experience of project management methodologies (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2).

To apply, please follow the link or for any questions please contact Christian Wingate, Engineering Manager, on

Applications close: Friday 24th October 2025.

Please note we will review and process applications as they come through; we encourage your early application