Wellington Transport Lead (Principal Transport Engineer)

Working closely with the Transportation Leader - NZ, your primary focus will be on the leadership of our Wellington based Transport team. This position encompasses a blend of project execution and oversight, design leadership as well as fostering business growth and nurturing client relationships.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and/or undertake the delivery of transport infrastructure projects for key clients across the private and public sectors.
• Provide technical expertise, advice and oversight through all stages of the project lifecycle from feasibility studies, business cases, design strategies, developed designs, and construction.
• Develop detailed designs using modelling software and AutoCAD when required.
• Review and sign off on engineering and technical outputs such as technical option reports, engineering principles & studies, detail designs and test procedures, etc. to ensure compliance to relevant standards.
• Manage project work technically and contractually to ensure that it meets technical requirements.
• Manage the successful delivery of concurrent projects through the different stages of the project lifecycle, including scope, resource and financial management
• Lead a team of engineers and technicians, providing technical advice and direction to all employee levels through technical challenges and issues.
• Proactively identify opportunities to engage and work collaboratively with colleagues from other disciplines and Business Unit’s across Egis Group
• Build and maintain strong external client relationships and contribute to the strategic growth of the roads sector by identifying and securing related business opportunities with key and emerging clients