About the Role:

Working as an integral part of our Civil and Environmental teams, we will assist you to gain a broad overall understanding of projects (the big picture) through experience working across projects from start to finish, i.e. design, consent, tendering, construction observation and administration to completion.  The role will typically include:

• Roading and landform design of small to large residential and industrial projects on greenfield and brownfield sites
• Water, wastewater and stormwater reticulation and treatment
• Concept through detailed design, consenting, contract management, and construction observation.

Auckland Civil and Environmental engineering teams comprise of three CPEng with over 30 years’ experience each, a Civil Associate with 26 years’ experience in land development in the Auckland and Canterbury regions, three graduate civil and two graduate environmental engineers, a senior engineering technician and two senior civil/environmental engineers. We also have a licensed surveyor with 35⁺ years’ experience, and a team of surveyors to support land development projects.

Qualifications and experience required:

• Professional degree in Civil Engineering
• Minimum of 3 years detailed design, site assessment and observation experience in civil engineering work in New Zealand
• Proficiency in Civil Engineering design software (Civil3D or equivalent)
• Familiarity with relevant Codes of Practice, NZ Standards, technical publications and guidelines
• Excellent written reporting skills
• You must hold NZ residency status or be a NZ citizen.

Personal attributes:

• Enthusiasm and a team player
• Strong technical, analytical, verbal and reporting skills
• Practical and a quick learner
• Willingness to work in two or more different areas (e.g. civil design, stormwater, wastewater)
• Ability to work to time and budget and to ensure quality standards are met
• Keen to work towards Chartered Professional Engineer status.

A technical aptitude test will be required to be completed to our satisfaction by any preferred candidate.

To apply for this position, email your CV and cover letter to admin@ftl.co.nz

About the Role:

You will be a key member of our Survey team, assisting with the provision of high quality services, primarily in the Auckland region, but may also involve on-site or remote assistance to the Christchurch office with their project work around the Canterbury area. Workload demands will allow you to be involved in a proportionate amount of field to office work; you won’t be stuck at a desk day after day.

The role will typically include:

• Engineering Surveying
• Cadastral Surveying
• Site and building survey monitoring
• Preparation of reports and specifications, sketches and/or finished drawings.

Auckland Survey team comprises one Licensed Surveyor, with over 30 years’ experience, one senior surveyor (Associate), a graduate surveyor, and three technician surveyors.

Qualifications and experience required:

• Surveying diploma or degree
• Confidence with Word, Magnet, GPS, Total and Robotic Stations and Land-on-Line
• Be eligible to work in New Zealand and have a current NZ driving licence.

Personal attributes:

• Enthusiasm and a team player
• Ability to listen, take instructions and to think for themselves
• Good technical, analytical, verbal and reporting skills
• Practical and a quick learner.

To apply for this position, email your CV and cover letter to admin@ftl.co.nz

About the Role:

This role offers you the opportunity to work independently on a wide variety and size of projects, while our open-door policy and collaborative company culture will assist you with exploring ideas and creating solutions, to provide your clients with services and/or designs tailored to their specific needs.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Investigation and analysis of existing building structures
• Detailed design of commercial and residential buildings and industrial and civil engineering structures of various types and sizes
• Undertaking of site inspections and preparation of technical opinions (supported by structural analyses) on the performance of engineering structures (including performance under fire conditions)
• Peer review of structural works
• Preparation of reports, sketches and/or finished drawings, specifications and schedules, and construction observation, relating to the above
• Client liaison and development
• Mentoring of graduate engineers. 

About You:

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Bachelor of Engineering, with or working towards CPEng
• A minimum of 7 years of New Zealand experience
• Strong understanding of New Zealand design codes
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience monitoring construction and contractor supervision
• Interest and desire to be a part of business development, making your own contacts and maintain relationships to aid in securing future work
• A project track record of seismic analysis and design
• Proven teamwork and leadership skills and mentoring experience.

You must be a NZ Citizen or Resident to apply for this position.

To apply for this position, email your CV and cover letter to admin@ftl.co.nz

About the Role:

Your role will include landfill engineering and civil and environmental engineering across a diverse range of projects. This work includes a variety of the following:

• Site inspections and investigations of solid waste management facilities, including landfills, refuse transfer stations, materials recovery facilities and composting facilities
• Engineering design of solid waste management facilities, especially landfills, using specialist software i.e., Civil3D/AutoCAD etc
• Preparation of Design Reports, Management Plans, and finished drawings
• Preparation of contract documents, specifications and schedules
• Contract management, construction observation, certification and completion reporting of solid waste management facilities civil work construction projects
• Troubleshooting and design of remedial works
• Review of technical work by others
• Client (and other stakeholder) liaison and administration.

About You:

Qualifications and experience required:

• Professional degree in Civil Engineering
• 3 to 5 years’ experience in Civil Engineering, including good knowledge and practical experience of landfill design, operation
• Proficiency in Civil Engineering design software (Civil3D or equivalent)
• Familiarity with relevant Codes of Practice, NZ Standards, technical publications and guidelines
• Excellent written reporting skills.

Personal attributes:

• Enthusiasm and a team player
• Strong technical, analytical, verbal and reporting skills
• Practical and a quick learner
• Willingness to work in two or more different areas (e.g. civil design, stormwater, wastewater)
• Ability to work to time and budget and to ensure quality standards are met
• Keen to work towards Chartered Professional Engineer status.

You must be a NZ Citizen or Resident to apply for this position.

To apply for this position, email your CV and cover letter to admin@ftl.co.nz

About the role:

You will be a key member of our Environmental team, assisting with the provision of high-quality contaminated land investigations, remediation and validation, primarily in the Auckland region, but also in Northland, Waikato and Hawkes Bay, while the role may also involve assistance to the Christchurch and Nelson/Blenheim offices with their project work in these areas.  The role will typically include:

• Contaminated land – investigations (e.g. desktop studies, site walkovers, soil sampling, etc.), consenting, remediation and validation
• Environmental investigations, monitoring and effects assessments (groundwater, surface water, land and air); consent processing; compliance reporting, environmental management plans
• Site inspections and investigations of existing and proposed land development, and solid waste management facilities and infrastructure, including both open and closed land disposal facilities.
• Use of technical software.
• Preparation of reports, management plans, sketches and/or finished drawings, contract documents, specifications and schedules, contract management and construction observation, relating to the above
• Client liaison and administration
• Such other duties as reasonably required from time to time.

The Auckland Environmental team comprises two CPEng engineers, each with over 25 years’ experience in New Zealand and overseas, one of whom is a Certified Environmental Practitioner in Contaminated Land (SQEP), two intermediate and two graduate level engineers, and two intermediate level Environmental Scientists.  Our team are supported by the Civil team which includes a Civil Associate with 26 years’ experience, a senior Engineering Technician and two senior Civil engineers. We also have a licensed surveyor with 35⁺ years’ experience, and a team of 5 surveyors to support land development projects. 

About you:

Qualifications and experience required:

• Bachelor (preferably Masters) degree in Environmental Sciences
• 1 to 3 years’ experience in environmental science work in New Zealand, ideally in contaminated land
• Specialist expertise in asbestos, including qualifications in asbestos building survey and/or asbestos assessor is an advantage
• Experience in AutoCAD or ArcGIS software or similar software for producing drawings for reports summarising sampling locations and results
• Experience in the use of the MS Office suite, particularly Word and Excel
• Familiarity with relevant Codes of Practice, NZ Standards, technical publications and guidelines (e.g. MfE Contaminated Land Management Guidelines, National Environmental Standard for Assessing and Managing Contaminants in Soil to Protect Human Health).

Personal attributes:

• Enthusiasm and a team player
• Ability to listen, take instructions and to think for themselves
• Strong technical, analytical, verbal and reporting skills
• Practical and a quick learner
• Physically fit as some projects can involve soil sampling using a hand auger for most of the day
• Willingness to work in two or more different areas (e.g. contaminated land, environmental monitoring/reporting)
• Project/client focused, and willing to put in extra hours to meet project deadlines from time to time
• Ability to work to time and budget and to ensure quality standards are met.

To apply for this position, email your CV and cover letter to admin@ftl.co.nz