angle-right Job no: 575090
Work type: Full Time - Permanent
Location: Queenstown
Categories: Engineering (All disciplines), Management, Civil Engineering

Downer has been designing, building and sustaining New Zealand's infrastructure for over a century and is a leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand.

With over 12,000 employees in New Zealand, we work alongside some of New Zealand's biggest businesses, councils and government agencies.

Our vision is to be the preferred partner for our customers, lead the way in our industries, attract and retain the very best people and keep our people safe at all times. This is a highly people focussed role with great opportunities to shape, live and embed our culture of collaboration and trust. It is all about working together to make things happen and leading from the front.

The Role
Due to internal movements through being successful as part of the Wakitipu Transport Programme Alliance Team, we are looking for a strong people leader who is commercially savvy to join as our Regional Manager - Southland / Central Otago based in Queenstown.

This role will be tasked with ensuring we maintain our strong momentum across our diverse portfolio within the regional footprint whilst also supporting resources as required moving into and out of the Alliance to meet overall programme objectives.

This is a career defining opportunity to make a real difference to our highly successful and growing organisation in a senior leadership role. Reporting to the General Manager, Southern Region, this senior leadership role will provide effective area wide leadership ensuring a motivated and productive field leadership team consistently delivering services for Downer's Transport Services clients.

As Regional Manager, you will have a key leadership role focused on developing and implementing strategies to ensure profitable growth across all businesses in your area.

You will work with the business Managers to identify the local regional business opportunities having a strong focus on the customer, providing thought leadership and collaborative solutions.

Working in partnership in multi-functional teams across the wider Downer business, you'll ensure business opportunities are maximised and delivered with expertise. To do this, you will champion best practice across financial and business processes which are both consistent and compliant with our business policies and systems.

As someone who possesses strong emotional intelligence, you'll have also have passion and drive; smarts and commercial acumen; courage; a collaborative and team based focus; clear demonstration of Zero Harm commitment; and a proven track record of operational excellence and delivering on operational promises and commercial outcomes.

About you
We are looking for dynamic and inspirational leadership. You'll have proven management experience with responsibility and accountability for staff, plant and return on investment.

With demonstrated experience in delivering complex maintenance, construction and operations services, preferably from construction and infrastructure sectors, you'll have expertise as a senior leader who can create and deliver a strong customer focus culture. You'll also be in possession of

• emotional intelligence,
• the ability to work under pressure in a fully integrated team environment,
• excellent written and oral communication skills with an ability to influence and
• proven customer relationship skills.

You'll also ideally bring with you board experience in delivery of civil construction and maintenance and operations within the infrastructure industry.

Our organisation has significant size and scale and we can provide ongoing leadership development, career opportunities and the ability to be involved in some of the most prominent projects across New Zealand.