Senior Project Manager - Wastewater | Infrastructure

# Senior Project Manager - Wastewater | Infrastructure

**Full-time**
**Department:** Infrastructure

## Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, defence, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world's most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

## Job Description

We are looking to expand our Infrastructure team with an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead complex wastewater treatment projects in Hamilton, New Zealand. This role requires a strong background in wastewater treatment processes, combined with proven project leadership experience in live operational environments.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience managing wastewater investigations, design coordination, and upgrade programmes, while leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating technical, operational, and stakeholder interfaces. You will be responsible for driving project outcomes, managing risks, integrating specialist advice, and ensuring the successful delivery of complex wastewater infrastructure projects.

## Qualifications

- Extensive project management experience delivering complex water or wastewater projects with a proven track record of leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating multiple workstreams.
- Strong wastewater treatment process expertise with hands-on knowledge of wastewater treatment plant operations and the ability to understand, review and challenge technical and operational recommendations.
- Experience delivering projects within live operational environments, ideally involving wastewater treatment plants, including managing operational interfaces, risks, safety, compliance, and stakeholder requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to lead investigations, design development, and technical coordination, ensuring practical, implementable solutions that balance operational, regulatory, commercial, and delivery objectives.
- Excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills with experience working collaboratively with operators, technical specialists, consultants, and clients to support effective decision-making and successful programme outcomes.

**Desirable:**
- Experience working on major wastewater treatment plant upgrades or renewal programmes.
- Knowledge of the New Zealand water sector and local stakeholder environment.

## Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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