Senior Mechanical Engineer

Senior Mechanical Engineer, Industrial

Apply and develop your mechanical engineering career leading designs, delivery, and work package teams to meet complex client design requirements for industrial facilities across New Zealand, Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

Varied role with career development opportunities through working across client types and sectors from food and beverage manufacturing, mineral and metal processing, to wood and fibre.

Be part of a passionate team, focused on project delivery excellence for our clients, as well as your personal and professional development, making every day better.

The Opportunity

Apply your Mechanical Engineering project and work package delivery leadership abilities, while building your consulting career as part of Beca's global Industrial business, as part of a team with over 40 years of experience and commitment to make every day better for our clients. You will be working with a team of over 250 engineers and industry experts passionate about the positive impact they have through the projects they deliver. This role provides the opportunity lead projects, design processes, work packages and teams while also expanding your project experience through the exposure to the variety of client sectors and project types you will be working across in the Industrial market. You will have the opportunities of having a varied and meaningful career at Beca, and our employee-owned structure puts people at the heart of our decision-making.

You will be joining a diverse and talented team with a vast breadth of knowledge and track record, where innovation and delivering the best for our clients is at the heart of every decision we make. In this role, you will be part of the team working with clients, contractors and vendors to deliver a diverse range of projects across New Zealand, Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. You will be able to continue your project leadership and delivery career, leading the mechanical engineering design processes across large and complex industrial sites from food and beverage manufacturing to minerals and metals processing, wood and fibre, as well as contributing to large water treatment projects. In addition, you will have scope to support and mentor others in your project teams, enabling graduate and other career level mechanical engineers to develop their careers. While each project you work on will be different in scope and scale, you will be:

• Leading mechanical and piping work packages, specifying and integrating mechanical equipment for production, manufacturing, utilities, refrigeration, energy, water and waste projects on large industrial sites
• Expand and build your experience working across multiple industries, understanding client's opportunities and challenges, and translating them into work briefs that provide the right engineering solution
• Helping develop long term client relationships and partnering with some of New Zealand's most successful organisations in our largest industries
• Working with experienced engineers in developing energy recovery and carbon zero projects
• Working in project engineer roles in the office and site-based locations, setting clear expectations on scope, cost, quality, and schedule
• Identifying opportunities for Beca to expand service offerings across multiple clients and markets
• Working with site-based engineering teams delivering capital projects
• Supporting the mentoring and development of others, across the delivery of mechanical engineering design teams

You will have the opportunity to both learn from our leading Principals, mechanical experts, delivery leads and project specialists, as well as having scope to have your say and contribute. Working at Beca will provide you with access to a truly multi discipline business where you can draw on technical experts to support delivery of significant and complex projects across complex mechanical engineering projects. You will have input into how projects are delivered, being encouraged to make suggestions and voice your thoughts on solutions.

This role will be based on Beca's Auckland office with our Industrial team of 75 diverse and passionate engineers, mechanical experts, designers and project delivery teams. You will be part of a close-knit team who enjoy being part of the Auckland office culture which showcases our values of enjoyment, partnership, care and tenacity!

About You

To be successful in this role, you will be an experienced Mechanical Engineer looking to make a step change in your career, with a passion for project delivery excellence. You love to learn, be pragmatic, share knowledge and are someone who can bring a fresh perspective. You will also have an enquiring mind and be able to problem-solve and think laterally. You are a qualified Engineer with a passion and good problem-solving skills. You have grown your technical design, mechanical engineering and project management experience through working on projects for heavy industrial, food and beverage processing facilities, or related industrial sites. You will have experience and understand the detailed design process, as well as being able to understand how designs and solutions impact on site. Experience working on-site building relationships with operations teams and the related requirements of being on site, will be an advantage.

How you work is also important to us – we will value your enthusiasm and motivation to continue to learn from your peers and more senior members of the team. Working amongst a group of highly motivated professionals, you will step into an open and supportive culture that values the skills you contribute to the group. You will also enjoy the challenge of working across multiple projects with different timelines and deliverables, as well as having responsibility for delivery of your part of a project.

Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture – open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences. We welcome applications from candidates from a range of backgrounds and work experiences. If you are interested however have questions whether this is currently the right opportunity for you, then please reach out via the contacts listed below.

About Us

Beca is one of Asia Pacific's largest independent advisory, design, and engineering consultancies. After a century of operation, we have grown from a family-owned business to one of the most progressive, client-centric professional services consultancies in our region. We have more than 4,000 employees in 25 offices around the world and have delivered projects in more than 70 countries.

'Creative people together transforming our world' is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose – to make everyday better. We create value through understanding and delivering successful solutions, exceptional service and our enduring relationships helping our clients shape communities, optimise their assets and streamline their operations.