Senior Hydrologist

ENGEO are looking for a senior hydrologist to join our water services team – join us as we expand our hydro capability across New Zealand!

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced consultant to take on a high impact role in a growing team. You will enjoy autonomy paired with support as you drive projects forward and help to develop the ongoing success of our team.

About the role

In this role, you’ll bring technical depth to analysis, design, and reporting, while also ensuring successful project delivery and strengthening ENGEO’s hydrology capability across New Zealand.

You will be a well-rounded consultant, combining technical delivery with client relationship management, identifying and creating opportunities to expand our water services offering.

You’ll work closely with our current water services team, as well as our ground engineering, and contaminated land teams on a range of complex work spanning land development, buildings, infrastructure, natural hazards, and more.

Our local water team is small – currently three surface water and five groundwater consultants – but we’re well connected, delivering projects across NZ, Australia and the Pacific! While working very closely with our California-based water team, too.

This position can be based in any of our New Zealand offices, but you will need to work across a broad geographic area and different time zones.

What will you be doing?

• Leading hydrology projects from proposal through to delivery.
• Helping to grow ENGEO’s water service line across New Zealand
• Close commercial management of projects, including invoicing & variations
• Designing detailed hydrological field investigations and coordinating field staff
• Providing technical analysis across a range of projects: flood control, river erosion and scouring, dam break, surface water conveyance and stormwater disposal, surface water supply takes, and groundwater-interaction.
• Reviewing proposals and technical reports
• Mentoring others to help grow ENGEO’s hydrology capability

Who are you?

We are looking for an hydrologist with an extensive background in engineering consulting. Ideally your technical experience includes both land development and infrastructure projects.

Furthermore, you will be someone who works from a place of proactivity and ownership, you’ll enjoy looking after your clients, and keeping a steady hand on your projects.

Our ideal candidate is someone who is humble, hungry, and smart, and has:

• 12+ years’ experience in hydrology
• Professional engineering registration (CPEng, Civil)
• Strong technical design and analysis skills
• The ability to effectively prioritise multiple projects in parallel
• Sound project commercial awareness
• A keen interest in client & business development
• Great communication and technical writing skills.
• A natural ability to bring people together and build connections to strengthen our hydrology capability across the business
• A proactive, service-oriented mindset

If you are interested in the role, but don’t necessarily meet all of the requirements, feel free reach out via the contact details below.

Life at ENGEO

ENGEO is an award-winning, employee-owned consulting firm of more than 350 people worldwide, providing geotechnical, geological, environmental, and ground/surface water services.

We proudly put our people first. We believe great outcomes come from a happy, supported team – not the other way around! We keep hierarchy light and give you the tools you need to succeed. You’ll enjoy a flat structure, minimal bureaucracy, and autonomy paired with strong senior & principal support.

At ENGEO, you’ll work on challenging projects which will stretch your technical abilities, you’ll have access to internal and external training, and experience career growth to new heights. We value integrity, collaboration, and bringing positive energy to everything we do. Our culture is our strategy: we hire for potential and values – humble, hungry, and smart.

What’s in it for you?

ENGEO are proud to provide an attractive base salary, as well as a bunch of benefits:

• A fantastic employee share ownership scheme – shares from day one!
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Wellbeing allowance
• Health insurance – for you and a significant other!
• Long service leave
• Birthday leave
• Flexible working arrangements
• Great learning, training, and development opportunities
• Opportunities to travel domestically and internationally

To apply:

Apply below today! We look forward to hearing from you.

If you’d like to have a confidential conversation first, please call
Oliver Saltmarsh on 027 309 0090