Project Engineer - Water

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.

3 Waters Project Engineer

We are seeking an experienced 3 Waters Engineer or Project Manager to join our team in Rotorua. This is an exciting opportunity that will deliver professional water resources engineering and consulting services, leading, and managing projects to provide innovative solutions for clients, ensuring positive impacts on the environment and communities, and contributing to business development and client relationships across Rotorua and the wider Bay of Plenty region.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, support, and manage water-related projects to achieve successful outcomes for clients.
• Undertake investigations, analysis, and modelling to develop engineering solutions and communicate results.
• Deliver high-quality technical consulting services, including feasibility studies, asset condition assessments, and practical design solutions.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and use digital tools (e.g., GIS, BIM, Power BI) to enhance project delivery.
• Actively identify and pursue new business opportunities, building and maintaining trusted client relationships.
• Prepare and manage project delivery plans, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality.
• Ensure compliance with technical standards, company quality, and health & safety requirements.
• Support the ongoing success of WSP through high-quality consultancy, professional development, and upholding company values.

What You’ll Bring

• Relevant tertiary qualification in civil engineering or a related discipline.
• Ideally, a minimum of 5 years’ professional experience in 3 Waters engineering.
• Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status, or working towards this.
• Strong technical, analytical, and project management skills, with a client-centric approach.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills.
• 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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