Engineering Manager - Win Work

Job Posting End DateMay 7, 2025Job LocationAucklandJob Description

The Fulton Hogan Life

Life at Fulton Hogan is about making the most of the opportunities, taking responsibility, having a crack, being accountable and making it happen. We live by our REAL values – Respect, Energy & Effort, Attitude, Leadership – and we demonstrate these through the good work we do, every day, as one team.  

Nau mai haere mai ki tā mātou whānau |Welcome to our Fulton Hogan Family

The Major Projects Win Work team bids for major infrastructure projects in New Zealand. We win profitable business by meeting customer needs more effectively than our competitors do. We also support project delivery, especially to manage continuity of key risk management from bid to delivery.

Our Win Work team is on the hunt for an Engineering Manager. Reporting to the National Manager – Win Work you will be an integral part of the leadership team bidding for, and going on to deliver, major infrastructure projects and programme bids. This will typically involve working with JV and consortium partners. You will also identify and deliver continuous improvements to our business and processes, in relation to engineering management. In this role you contribute to the winning and delivery of new business by ensuring that the solutions we develop for ECI, D&C, other forms of competitive tender, and negotiated work meet all applicable requirements, and provide optimum value for money, through a structured and systematic approach to innovation and optimisation.

In addition to the above you will:

• Assist with the evaluation and selection of Design Consultants for D&C projects and agree their commercial arrangements in accordance with levels of authority and agreed project budgets. Accurately define the scope of work for consultants to be engaged to each project
• Ensure that customer requirements are understood, and that we achieve mutual understanding of what represents best value for money solutions
• Work with the Fulton Hogan Civil and Regional businesses, and design and construction consortium members, to agree the integrated design, construction, estimating, contingency, risk and commercial approach; resourcing; programme; systems; processes, and budget for each bid or negotiation
• Oversee and coordinate the design team outputs and deliverables in accordance with the agreed programme
• Coordinate the design and peer review processes, and all internal and external review and approval processes, including the interfaces with key technical and other stakeholders, and interested third parties
• Use structured and systematic processes that will drive our design and construction solutions to meet minimum requirements and standards while doing the least amount of work. Less work, less waste equals lower cost
• Contribute to effective knowledge continuity and handover/transition – from tender to design to delivery.

Good Work equals Good Benefits

• KiwiSaver employer contributions
• Fuel discount card
• Parental leave top-up payment with additional return to work support
• Family scholarships
• Ongoing training and development, career growth and progression opportunities
• Great discounts at a wide range of retailers
• Medical insurance
• Life insurance 

At Fulton Hogan, we genuinely care about the wellbeing of our people and giving them the tools and opportunities they need to succeed and grow with us.  
 

We’re looking for someone with:

The person we are looking for will have 10 years’ experience in design management, engineering management or other directly relevant roles working on multi-disciplinary highway and/or water projects > $100M in value and have the following experience and skills. 

• Appropriate tertiary engineering qualification
• CPEng achieved or in progress
• Sound commercial understanding in relation to civil infrastructure construction; familiar with forms of contract commonly encountered in New Zealand
• Outstanding negotiating skills - works with others to identify motivations and influencing factors. Optimises outcomes to ensure win-win solutions with a long term relational (rather than transactional) approach.
• Knowledge of construction approaches, suppliers and subcontractors in the New Zealand market
• Knowledge of, and relationships with, design partners and civil contractors in New Zealand
• Excellent communication skills
• Encourages learning and capability growth. Takes responsibility for own continuous development.
• Strategic understanding of the design management function; how it interacts with other parts of the business, and how to achieve improvement
• Ability to work and lead effectively under pressure and deal with ambiguity

Creating, Connecting and caring for the community 

Our people regularly donate their time to local causes and initiatives, while at a regional and national level we provide financial support, skills and resources to a wide range of organisations that are strengthening our communities. Our focus aims to also reduce our impact on the environment, and regenerate healthy new ecosystems. We look to partner with others to lift the standards of our industry and show customers lower-impact, sustainable ways of delivering infrastructure.

Learn more about us: Homepage - Fulton Hogan and make an application to join our growing industry. 

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All successful candidates must under-go and pass a pre-employment medical and drug screen.

We celebrate and embrace diversity across our business and are committed to equal employment opportunities.

We believe in the value that diversity brings to our team and people who share our REAL values are encouraged to apply