{"id":3366835,"url":"https://alion.io/job/kiwirail-project-engineer-substructure-care-drainage","title":"Project Engineer Substructure Care - Drainage","company":{"id":1974127,"name":"KiwiRail","domain":"kiwirail.co.nz","url":"https://alion.io/company/kiwirail","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Auckland, New Zealand"],"countries":["NZ"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":38000,"max_usd":84000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":18},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-27T23:27:33Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-27","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T18:21:30Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":12,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":12},"description":"Auckland Based Fixed-term end of June 2028\nHeavily focused on innovation, Predictive Maintenance, and asset management\nCar and weekend allowance available\nStrong training and development support to build your capability\nPosition Description\nHe kōrero mō mātou | About us\nAt KiwiRail, we’re proud to connect people, goods and communities across Aotearoa. For more than 150 years, rail has helped move New Zealand forward. Today, we’re modernising and strengthening our metro networks to support more frequent passenger services, faster journey times and increased freight capacity. Our Network Readiness team is helping lead that transformation through safer, smarter and more preventative maintenance. With a focus on intelligence, automation, mechanisation and asset management, the team is building a more resilient and reliable rail network for the future.\nHe whakamārama mō te tūranga mahi | About the role\nThis is an opportunity to contribute to a high-impact programme focused on improving drainage performance across the Auckland Metro network. Reporting to the Project Manager, you’ll help develop and deliver a data-driven drainage maintenance strategy that shifts the network from reactive maintenance toward a more planned and predictive approach.\nYou’ll bring together inspection and asset-condition data, engineering insight and practical field knowledge to help define intervention priorities, develop work packages and support field trials. Working across engineering, maintenance, GIS, contractors and key stakeholders, you’ll help improve track performance, resilience and whole-of-life asset outcomes.\nThe role is primarily project and administration based, with planned support for drainage inspections and interventions during day or night shifts when required.\nWhat you'll be doing\nAnalysing drainage inspection and asset-condition data to identify network condition, priorities and intervention needs.\nUpdating drainage asset records, validating information and supporting transfer into the central asset database.\nWorking with the GIS visualisation team to develop a tailored drainage asset-management platform.\nHelping refine the drainage strategy, intervention thresholds, task instructions and maintenance delivery processes.\nDeveloping scopes, plans and work packages for drainage interventions and field trials.\nCollaborating with Civils, Track Maintenance, Infrastructure, Engineering, Protection, contractors and other stakeholders.\nSupporting procurement, contract administration, project controls, reporting, forecasting and variation management.\nMonitoring safety, cost, programme, quality, risks and benefits, while escalating material issues appropriately.\nChampioning innovation, continuous improvement and practical solutions that improve network performance.\nProviding planned field support during day or night shifts as required.\nNgā pūkenga e rapu nei mātou | What you'll bring\nYou’re a practical and collaborative Project Engineer who is comfortable working with data, technical specialists and operational teams. You can turn information into clear priorities and keep work moving in a complex, safety-critical environment.\nYou'll bring:\nA relevant tertiary qualification in engineering or a related discipline.\nPrevious project engineering experience, ideally within rail, civil infrastructure, construction or asset management.\nExperience contributing to positive project outcomes in complex, multidisciplinary environments.\nKnowledge of project-management methods and reporting, including risk, scope, cost, quality, design and programme controls.\nStrong analytical skills and confidence working with inspection, condition or asset data.\nThe ability to develop clear project documentation, scopes, reports and recommendations.\nExcellent organisation, prioritisation and stakeholder-management skills.\nA calm, pragmatic and flexible approach, with sound judgement under pressure.\nA strong commitment to health, safety and wellbeing.\nRail or drainage experience, GIS knowledge and relevant industry or project-management certification, such as PMP, would be advantageous but are not essential.\nNōu te rourou | What's in it for you?\nYou’ll join a team working on a meaningful programme that will improve the resilience and reliability of Auckland’s rail network. 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