Structural Engineer

Structural Engineer – Bay of Plenty

Structural Engineering at Beca

Beca has offices throughout New Zealand that lead and support projects of national significance. Being based in Hamilton or Tauranga allows you to have a great work-life balance and flexibility, while continuing to grow and advance your career in a vibrant and growing professional services organisation. 

Te whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

We are for looking for an Intermediate Structural Engineer to join our team in Tauranga. This means being part of a multi-cultural team whose individual differences makes the team stronger. We push boundaries and go beyond the conventional approaches every single day. We are also dedicated to developing and sharing technical innovation and sustainable practices.

Every day will be different and provide different challenges and variety. Overall, you can expect to:

• Apply principles and professional knowledge and judgement to plan and implement projects of reasonable complexity
• Provide technical design advice for structures and multi-disciplinary projects of reasonable complexity
• Gain experience in work planning and financial management for local, national, and international projects
• Build and foster internal and external relationships that lead to repeat work
• Demonstrate effective communication, presentation, networking, and consulting skills
• Be passionate about learning and seek feedback to ensure professional and technical career development.

This role is based in our Tauranga office but requires regular travel each week to a client site near Tokoroa (Waikato) – this is just over an hours' drive away. Our client is at the heart of New Zealand’s forestry, timber and paper industry.

Aligned with the level of the role, we envision that the base salary component will be between NZ$68,000.00 – $102,000.00, depending on skills and experience. The role is full time and permanent, with minimum guaranteed hours of 40 hours a week.

Ko wai koe | About you

You are someone who is interested in building on your timber design skills. From residential to commercial timber, we have complex projects that need passionate people to deliver.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• A Qualification in civil engineering, structural engineering or related field.
• A minimum of 4 years of experience in structural engineering consultancy.
• A passion for design and problem-solving.
• Experience with building/civil structures and multidisciplinary projects (preferred).
• Enquiring mind, strong problem-solving skills, and ability to think laterally.
• Enthusiasm and motivation to learn from colleagues.
• Working towards or possessing professional certification (preferred).