Associate – Stormwater Engineering

The suitable candidate for this role is an emerging technical leader in Stormwater Design. As a Principal Engineer, you will be be the stormwater technical lead or reviewer for stormwater designs and road drainage projects. You will effectively lead the technical delivery, whilst delegating and upskilling junior members of the team. The role involves coordination with design engineers and peergroups across India and New Zealand while reporting to the Head of Department in India. The ideal candidate would be provide coaching to junior members on projects, as well as act as a mentor to wider team members.

Responsibilities

• Leads the technical delivery of a variety of stormwater, revetment and drainage engineering projects and provide technical inputs to support design from concept through to consenting and construction for medium to large, complex and multi-disciplinary projects in accordance with our Integrated Management System (IMS). Work alongside project managers and junior team members to ensure efficient delivery. Delivers through teams, not individually.
• Produces research, feasibility studies, analysis and subsequent reporting suitable for client presentation to a high-level of grammatical and technical presentation.
• Has a technically strong knowledge of stormwater reticulation, drainage and revetment engineering, including strategy, investigation, and related advisory work in the field of stormwater, revetment and drainage engineering and is able to successfully supervise others in these fields.
• Able to work without supervision, direct others and ensures their work is verified by an appropriate professional.
• Produces and review models, designs, calculations, contract documentations, specifications, schedules, construction estimates and drawings suitable for the preparation of NZS 3910 and NZS 3916 contract documentation. With a particular focus on stormwater and revetment engineering.
• Supports, coaches and mentors stormwater professionals and team members.
• Ensures project related quality processes are carried out (technical reviews, verification, approval to release etc.) in a timely and cost-effectively manner.
• Provides regular feedback to team members in a constructive and timely manner.
• Prepares reports and other documents associated with stormwater, revetment and drainage engineering and associated services to a high level of grammatical and technical presentation.
• Completes tasks within allocated timeframes and budgeted hours.
• Ensures all technical risks are understood, managed, assigned to the organisation best placed to manage the risk, and these are well communicated with the project team, and / or client
• Solves problems effectively by engaging sound problem solving techniques and appropriate analysis.
• Maintains knowledge of appropriate technical standards, legislation, codes of practice and New Zealand standards; Is knowledgeable on industry developments, trends, and processes.
• Applies sound judgement to decisions about technical issues and solves problems for clients to get the best possible outcome for a project.
• Undertakes appropriate verification of projects and team members’ work.
• Considering risks to client’s business or reputation as part of the planning and management of projects.
• Delivering excellent service to clients to promote repeat and uncompetitive work.
• Develops and maintains an extensive network of industry contacts in India and NZ (as a minimum) and is readily able to access key people.
• Builds and maintains strong, trusted relationships with clients.
• Actively seeks feedback from clients and communicate this to the team to ensure successful delivery of projects and lessons learnt.
• Ensure projects and variations are scoped and priced in a manner that will ensure commercial success and that respond to the specific risk profile of the project.
• Writes and supports bids that are commercially astute, recognises and manages commercial risks while demonstrating value to the client.
• Hold focused meetings that achieve appropriate outcomes at key times; Deliver engaging, informative well-organized presentations; Create opportunities to share learnings, improvements, new tools, better practices etc with the wider water team.
• Liaise and work closely with Sector leadership and peer groups across India and New Zealand; Act as a brand ambassador of GCC within WSP in India across geographies.

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