Job Description

Overview

LDE, an AtkinsRéalis Company

With a strong reputation for practical engineering, trusted client relationships and local delivery, LDE, an AtkinsRéalis Company, is a New Zealand-based multidisciplinary engineering consultancy supporting infrastructure and development projects across Aotearoa New Zealand. Combining deep local knowledge with broader trans-Tasman capability and access to a global network of engineering specialists, LDE helps clients deliver resilient, practical and future-focused outcomes across the transportation, water, power and renewables, ports and marine, resources, and industrial sectors.

At LDE, you will be working with intelligent people from a wide range of backgrounds, on interesting projects that make a real difference to communities all around New Zealand. You will be valued for your skills and experience and who you are as an individual. We work collaboratively and independently, and balance office time with field trips off the beaten track. We love what we do and have plenty of laughs along the way.

Your role

Based from either Napier or Gisborne, we are seeking a Civil Engineer looking for an opportunity to advance and grow their career while helping to extend our client base with support from our team of senior engineers. Our approach to developing a well-rounded engineer will see you involved from proposal and engagement through to engineering recommendations, designs of a specialist nature and budget management.

You will have confidence in your ability but also the capacity to learn from others and apply this in your day-to-day work. Working at LDE often requires a generalist mindset, so a willingness to collaborate across disciplines is highly valued. With a strong pipeline of active work, you'll have every opportunity to hit the ground running and make an immediate impact.

Our Hawkes Bay office in Ahuriri is home to a multidisciplinary team of civil, geotechnical, and structural engineers, engineering geologists, and environmental scientists — and with the beach just steps away, the work-life balance practically takes care of itself.

Work will involve civil design works, including but not limited to

• Small to large subdivisions from concept to signoff stages
• Roading and pavement design
• Stormwater and wastewater reticulation design
• Stormwater hydraulic neutrality design and flood assessments
• Reporting
• Site monitoring
• Simple structural design
• Retaining wall and MSE wall design
• Foundation design
• Coastal revetment designs

About you

• Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)

• 4+ years of New Zealand experience, including consultancy exposure

• Proficient in AutoCAD and Civil 3D; familiarity with HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS is an advantage

• Resilience and having the ability to adapt and push through setbacks
• Ability to be able to clearly communicate and translate technical information for clients, contractors, and non-engineers
• A dependable team player

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Competitive remuneration
• A flexible environment including flexible working hours to help make life easier
• A friendly, fun, inclusive and supportive work environment
• Loads of variety through exposure to a range of national projects
• A company that genuinely lives and breathes work-life harmony
• Approachable and talented multidisciplinary teams.
• The ability to be involved with technically challenging and large projects.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognised for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services organisation. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.