Senior Project Manager - Civil/Water Projects
Beyond Recruitment
Listing Description
Description
A leading Tier 2 civil contractor is seeking a Senior Project Manager to deliver several civil projects within the civil sector, notably water projects. They are a growing contractor with a major pipeline ahead now looking for the right PM leader to take charge and drive projects and site teams.
About the Role
As Senior Project Manager, you’ll oversee the planning, delivery, and completion of complex water infrastructure projects. You’ll lead multidisciplinary teams, manage stakeholders, and ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, and on budget. The role requires strong capability in civil infrastructure delivery, including pipelines, pump stations, structures, and temporary works.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of civil projects from inception to completion
- Manage project programmes, project scheduling and all commercial aspects of projects including budgets, cost reporting, cash flows, and claims management
- Oversee procurement, contract administration, and compliance
- Coordinate consultants, contractors, and subcontractors across disciplines
- Ensure health & safety, quality, and environmental standards are met
- Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to project teams including Site engineers, projects engineers and site teas.
About You
- 10+ years’ experience in project management within civil infrastructure or water projects
- A demonstrable career history of moving up the ranks from site engineer to project engineer and beyond
- Commercial leadership
- Experienced in design of temporary works, understanding construction plans, skilled in planning and programming
- Tertiary qualification in Engineering
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills Self-starter with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset
Salary: $170K - $200K pending experience
For further information, please call Matt on 0275544064 or email your details to matt.shortt@beyond.co.nz
Ref: 131352
Application details
Apply online for this role or contact Matt Shortt for more information.
Beyond Recruitment
We have a talented team of people who recruit throughout New Zealand and love to go Above and Beyond for candidates and employers. We operate ten specialist teams across all key disciplines within an organisational structure, and our highly experienced consultants often further specialise in a particular role type. This means that whether you are looking for a new role or looking to find the best talent, we know where to look and who to speak to.
Our teams deliver nationwide recruitment services across:
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Here at Beyond Recruitment, we are passionate about Aotearoa and its people. We aim to advance the opportunity for employers to succeed through the placement of top people while equally advancing the careers of our candidates. We are committed to working to benefit New Zealand both in business and the wider community through our work. Diversity and inclusion are at the centre of everything we do. We are also proud to support a number of charities annually and love giving back to the diverse communities we serve. Our Values
As a values-led business, we are passionate about New Zealand and seeing New Zealand organisations succeed through great people.
Our core values are:
We are fair, open, flexible, professional and honest in all our dealings
We treat all people with respect
We work collaboratively
We stand for excellence in delivery and value
We work to benefit New Zealand
When you work with us, you will find us to be astute, relaxing, effective, engaging, refreshing and stimulating. We look forward to hearing from you!
