Senior Sustainability & Resilience Consultant

AECOM's Sustainability and Resilience team partners with councils, infrastructure owners, utilities and government agencies to help plan, design and deliver more resilient infrastructure. We advise clients on climate risk, adaptation and resilience across nationally significant transport, water, energy and built environment projects.

We're looking for an experienced Sustainability and Resilience Consultant with a background advising infrastructure and public sector clients to join our national team in Christchurch, Wellington or Auckland. You'll provide technical leadership on nationally significant projects while helping grow AECOM's Sustainability and Resilience practice across New Zealand.

Working within a collaborative, multidisciplinary team, you'll lead complex client engagements, mentor emerging consultants, build trusted client relationships and contribute to business development. This is an opportunity for an established consultant who enjoys combining technical excellence with strategic client advisory and helping develop the next generation of sustainability professionals.

Some of your key responsibilities will be to:

• Lead climate risk, adaptation and resilience projects for major infrastructure, transport, water, energy and built environment clients.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and coaching to consultants, graduates and emerging professionals.
• Build trusted client relationships while identifying opportunities to grow AECOM's services in Climate Risk, Adaptation & Infrastructure Resilience.
• Lead proposals, bids and work-winning activities, contributing to the continued growth of the business.
• Independently manage client engagements from proposal through to successful project delivery.
• Analyse climate projections, technical data and risk assessments to develop practical adaptation and resilience strategies.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and engage with clients, government agencies and project partners.
• Prepare and review high-quality technical reports, presentations and client deliverables.
• Support environmental assessment and regulatory approval processes on major infrastructure projects.