Senior Project Manager - Property & Buildings

Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives enabling you to do the best work of your life. You can experience a world of opportunities to shape a career as unique as you.

WSP is one of the world’s top professional services firms, bringing together some of the brightest engineers, advisors and scientists from across the globe. We exist to shape communities to advance humanity. We see the world through a Future Ready® lens, fuelled by a shared commitment to making a positive impact—one project and community at a time.

Senior Project Manager – Property & Buildings

As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll provide end-to-end project management and consulting services across a diverse portfolio of property and building projects. You’ll work closely with clients, multidisciplinary teams, and stakeholders to deliver high-performing projects that balance technical excellence, commercial outcomes, and positive environmental and community impact.

Key aspects of the role include:

• Leading and managing property and building projects from feasibility through to delivery
• Acting as a trusted advisor to clients, ensuring their explicit and implicit needs are met
• Preparing and managing project delivery plans, including scope, programme, budget, resourcing, and risk
• Delivering high-quality investigations, analysis, and reporting to support informed client decision-making
• Collaborating with technical specialists across local, national, and international teams
• Contributing to business development through client engagement, proposals, and market presence
• Championing health, safety, and quality across all project activities

About you

You’re an experienced project manager within the Property & Buildings discipline, with strong commercial acumen and a passion for delivering quality outcomes. You enjoy working in a collaborative environment and are confident engaging with clients and stakeholders at all levels.

You’ll bring:

• A relevant tertiary qualification
• Ideally 10+ years’ professional experience in engineering and project management in a related property/buildings discipline
• Proven experience managing projects, including budgets, programmes, and multidisciplinary teams
• Strong knowledge of relevant New Zealand standards, legislation, and best-practice project management frameworks
• A client-centric mindset with the ability to build and maintain trusted relationships
• Excellent communication, collaboration, high attention to detail, strong organisational ability, and the resilience to thrive in a busy, changing environment.

Why Rotorua?

Located in the heart of the Bay of Plenty, Rotorua offers a unique lifestyle where professional opportunity meets year‑round adventure. Famous for its geothermal landscapes, rich Māori culture, and the majestic Redwoods forest, Rotorua boasts crystal‑clear lakes, world‑class mountain biking and walking trails, and a thriving events calendar. Its central North Island location makes weekend escapes easy, with Tauranga, Taupō, and Hamilton within convenient reach. With a temperate climate, welcoming communities, good schools, and an abundance of outdoor activities for all ages, it’s a family‑friendly destination.

Relocation support is available to assist you in settling into Rotorua if you are moving from outside the region.

Learn more about our WSP Rotorua office here: https://www.wsp.com/en-nz/contact-us/offices/new-zealand/na/rotorua/001671

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

We are proud to have the blueprint of Aotearoa New Zealand in our DNA and our 2,000+ expert professionals in 24 offices are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 75,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

With us, you can. Apply today.

We will review applications as they come in, so if this opportunity sounds like you, don’t wait to apply!

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