Development Manager

About the role

The Strategic Planning team plays a central role in shaping the future of Auckland Airport and articulating the business’ 30-year vision. It oversees Auckland Airport’s Master Plan and provides strategic advice in relation to aeronautical planning, transportation, environmental planning and sustainability, to ensure the timely delivery of infrastructure to enable Airport growth.

To fulfil the business’ vision, we are looking for a Development Manager with experience in civil horizontal infrastructure to deliver airport development planning and management capability to prepare for future projects and programmes of work. In this role you will work closely with the Capital Development Programme Manager and the wider team to bring the airport’s Master Plan to life.

Some of the key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring that project and programme development is aligned with the Capital Plan, masterplan, company strategy, and aeronautical requirements, reflecting an enterprise view
• Accountability to ensure sufficient resources, skill and care are applied to the development stages of the project
• Ensuring that projects are developed with an enterprise view, input is proactively provided to the project governance and that the outcomes of the project are consistently managed to meet business objectives
• Balancing the benefits and costs of alternative approaches to achieve optimal outcomes and ensuring inputs from across the business into feasibility studies and business cases are co-ordinated
• Ensuring project delivery is tightly managed to achieve business objectives and governance
• Managing risk, opportunity, and safety within the project
• Maximising synergies and managing project interfaces
• Working cross functionally, and sharing resources
• Maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders

What you’ll bring to the role

At Auckland Airport, we are a busy hive of activity, and a lot of what we look for is how you would align with our values Respectful, Collaborative, We Care, Integrity and Exceptional.

To ensure your success in this role, you will need:

• Tertiary qualification in relevant horizontal and civil engineering discipline
• 10+ years’ experience in senior client-side project development roles in complex infrastructure projects (airport infrastructure experience desired)
• Varied and in-depth commercial project experience, including demonstrated experience in leading feasibility studies
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with proven ability in building credibility, influence and working effectively with professional and technical contractors
• Excellent quantitative, verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced presentation skills
• Proven ability to focus on business benefits and needs.
• Ability to translate business need into high quality project briefs and business cases
• Demonstrated experience in proactively identifying and implementing practical solutions to technical problems, in a complex and dynamic environment

Apply today

It’s our collaboration and passion that keep everything together. This is what our culture and heritage have been built on. When you work with us, you’ll share our ambition to be a great New Zealand business, and one that’s making a strong contribution to the wellbeing of our communities and economy.

If this role sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Apply online now.

Applications close: 5th December 2024
Please note that applications will be reviewed continuously throughout the recruitment period, and appointments may be made before the official closing date of the advert.

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