Senior Civil/3 Waters Engineer

6 days ago


Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Holmes Aus & NZ Full time NZ$80,000 - NZ$120,000 per year

Join a team of engineers with decades of experience and a business with some of the most complex and interesting engineering projects in the world.

  • Strong pipeline of complex and interesting projects
  • Join a collaborative working environment, focused on career development
  • Location Flexible - Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch or Hamilton

For more than six decades, across New Zealand and the world, Holmes has led the engineering industry in invention, creativity and quality. We've built our reputation on the strength of our technical brilliance, ability to innovate, and our unwavering commitment to delivering engineering excellence. With a fast-growing, highly successful team and new projects starting all over New Zealand, we're looking for Senior Civil/3 Waters Engineer to join our team.

About the role | Mō te Tūranga

Working on projects locally and across NZ, you'll be part of a close-knit team delivering a diverse and challenging civil engineering portfolio. We work on plenty of complex, large-scale infrastructure projects, with an opportunity to bring new ideas, innovation and thinking to the table. This role will see you developing and maintaining positive and productive client relationships, using your stakeholder management skills to engage your clients, project partners and your own project team. You'll also provide day-to-day technical leadership, support and guidance to your own teams, coaching and mentoring our engineers to improve their skills and deliver excellence.

About You | Mōu

You'll have experience across a wide variety of infrastructure design aspects, and strong experience in 3 waters and hydraulic modelling including HEC-HMS Modelling, along with river hydrology including scour protection.

  • You'll be a technically astute engineer with relevant experience in the NZ regulatory environment.
  • With strong project lead and relationship building capabilities, your experience will span from proposals through to project delivery.
  • Your excellent technical skills will be matched by your ability to build meaningful client relationships, and you'll be a confident communicator with the willingness to help out at every level.
  • You'll also support by coaching and developing the next generation of civil engineers, so people leadership experience is important.

Working with Holmes | Te Mahi ki Holmes

Hard work's a big part of what's got us where we are today, but it's not the final word. At Holmes, we have a vibrant, fun culture. If sport is your thing, you can join our touch, indoor netball, or football teams. Bootcamps, ski and cycle trips are also on the menu if you want to get involved, and we've got a range of social functions throughout the year if they take your fancy. We're a friendly, relaxed team that loves getting stuck into great projects, with plenty of fun and good times along the way.

Our vision at Holmes is to be more representative of the communities we serve—and the places we live and work. Holmes people are encouraged to dream big and empowered to achieve their goals in an environment where we recognise and value diversity. Our commitment is to provide all of our great people equal support and equal opportunity to thrive, grow and develop.

If you're ready for a challenge and keen to take the next step in your career, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today or for more information please call Louise Hooper Smith on

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