Lead Engineer, Chemical & Process

Responsibilities

• Lead Projects: Take charge of small to medium-sized projects, ensuring delivery meets client expectations and business objectives.
• Project Lifecycle Management: Oversee the entire project lifecycle, including cost estimation and budgeting, detailed design management and coordination, procurement and vendor management, commissioning and handover.
• Work Winning & Client Engagement: Build authentic, long-lasting relationships with clients. Support business development through work-winning strategies, proposals, and solutions.
• Inspire and guide: Mentor and coach junior team members, fostering their growth and enabling the team to deliver exceptional results for our clients.
• Project Management: Proven track record as a project manager leading cross functional teams.
• Innovation and Research: Stay up to date with the latest advancements and integrate new innovations and best practices into project designs.
• We know today's complex challenges can only be solved through bringing together diverse teams of people from across our business, so there will be opportunities for you to apply your skills and creativity to projects in other geographies and markets.
• What can you bring to the team?
• Firstly, you will share our genuine passion for re-imagining engineering and be someone that actively pursues continuous learning to help shape the future.
• The ideal candidate will have a strong background in dairy, food or other clean-industry sectors or general manufacturing.
• Alongside this, you will have the following:
• Bachelor's degree in Process or Chemical Engineering
• Proven experience in a similar role with 6+ years' experience post-graduation
• Demonstrated success in winning work
• Excellent project management and communication skills.

Requirements

• Global design standards:
• ASME BPE, 3-A, EHEDG (any of these)
• Chartership: IChemE or AIChE
• Key Relationships:
• Internal Stakeholders:
• Project Engineering Lead - Collaborate on overall project strategy, design integration, and delivery milestones. Provide technical input to support project planning and risk management. Develop universal methodologies to enable efficient collaboration and technical excellence.
• Design Team - Work closely with mechanical, electrical, structural, and control systems engineers to ensure seamless integration of process design with other disciplines.
• Quality Assurance - Partner on design reviews, HAZOP facilitation, and compliance verification to ensure designs meet food safety and regulatory standards.
• Project Managers - Maintain clear communication on design progress, risks, and schedule to support overall project delivery.
• External Stakeholders:
• Client Teams - Engage with client operations, maintenance, and engineering staff to understand requirements, validate designs, and build confidence in solutions.
• Equipment Suppliers - Collaborate with equipment manufacturers to confirm specifications, lead times, and technical capabilities; incorporate supplier input into design optimization.
• We value that each of our team members brings something different to Aurecon. We look for people who have had a broad range of experiences throughout their career and can demonstrate how they have worked as part of a team to bring ideas to life. Does that sound like

Additional Information

Just imagine your future with us... At Aurecon, we see the future through a very different lens. Do you? Innovation, eminence and digital are at the heart of everything we do. Are you excited about the future? Are you driven by the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and complex projects around the world and to learn from the best? We are. Diversity is at the core of everything we do. We work together to create a culture based on respect, trust, and inclusiveness. Our differences are what fuel our creativity. What will you do? Join our team as a Lead Engineer, Chemical & Process and play a key role in delivering innovative solutions across energy, resource, and manufacturing projects. Collaborating closely with clients and multidisciplinary teams, you'll focus on the dairy industry, manufacturing and food & beverage sectors , supporting and expanding our pipeline with sustaining capital projects in New Zealand. You'll also contribute to our growing decarbonization portfolio, strengthening client partnerships and driving growth with new manufacturing clients, in alignment with our Energy & Industrial plan. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of engineering in a dynamic, impactful sector.

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