Civil Engineer


Civil Engineer

At the Christchurch City Council we are driven by our passion for creating a better future. We believe in working as one yet staying true to ourselves. Help make a positive impact on our community while enjoying a rewarding career of opportunities. Christchurch City Council, where it's possible to love what you do.

Want to move to the client side of engineering where you get to have true ownership of your work all while crafting Christchurch of the future?

With high profile and community projects and an interesting variety of work we are now looking for a Civil Engineer to join our Technical Services and Design department, a team of technical professionals, all experts in their fields dedicated to delivering best value sustainable infrastructure.

This is a varied and important role where you will provide civil engineering services for three waters (water supply, waste-water and storm water) utilities and infrastructure to enable delivery of the capital programme. You'll also provide design expertise, design inputs, and critically analyse/review designs including constructibility checks and documentation from internal teams and external consultants. You will provide technical advice on complex water supply, waste-water and storm water engineering projects on a city wide basis and do detailed technical reviews of external concept and detailed designs for water supply, waste-water and storm-water projects to ensure compliance with CCC standards.

You'll be a highly experienced Civil Engineer with strong design and technical review skills and will hold a BE (Civil). It would be an advantage to be a Chartered Professional Engineer with good 12d skills. You'll have extensive concept, detailed design and construction experience in water supply, waste-water and storm-water infrastructure projects. This will allow you to provide project design advice and to critically analyse and review designs of consultants and other professionals working on our projects

Opportunities like this are seldom seen on offer here at the Council as why would you want to leave when you have everything you need at your fingertips and where every day you get to collaborate with like-minded professionals who together are achieving key projects for the community.

Are you passionate about creating a better future? Find out what's possible, apply today.

Additional recruitment information

  • Salary - will be discussed with the successful applicant


Applications close on Tuesday, 22 June 2021.


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