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General Information

Job Type
Permanent
Business
Higgins
Location
Manawatu-Whanganui
Job Reference
40958
Posted Date
09-Jul-2025
Closing Date
06-Aug-2025

Description

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our team in the Manawatu. The successful candidate will lead and manage construction projects from tender phase to completion, ensuring they meet or exceed time, cost, and quality targets in a safe work environment.


What you will enjoy doing

  • Manage project budgets, forecasts, and reporting to achieve financial targets.
  • Oversee contract administration, ensuring compliance and managing risks.
  • Drive procurement strategies and manage supplier and subcontractor relationships.
  • Lead design management processes to ensure effective design outcomes.
  • Champion health and safety policies, ensuring a safe work environment for all.
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, consultants, and other stakeholders.
  • Implement robust information management practices using Procore.
  • Lead project governance processes and ensure effective communication with all stakeholders.


What you’ll bring to the role

  • Prior experience as a Project Manager in civil construction
  • Strong commercial acumen and proven experience in commercial decision making
  • Understanding of the technical, contractual and financial requirements involved in construction and maintenance contracts
  • Operational management experience, planning, resource allocation and coordination
  • Financial management, track record in running successful projects, being accountable for P&L, budgeting, cost-benefit analysis, reconciliation, reporting
  • Strong client management capability with a strong focus on client relationships 
  • Understanding of the Construction Contracts Act and the knowledge to apply NZS3910 is desirable
  • Civil Engineering Diploma, Degree or similar
  • Strong focus on health and safety not just your own but your colleagues and the public
  • Self-motivated with a positive attitude and work well as part of a dynamic team 

About Us

Higgins is a leading roading and civil infrastructure company in New Zealand. We are on a dynamic growth path with people at the heart of what we do every day. We offer a great working environment, competitive hourly rate, subsidised medical insurance and subsidised education and training for you and your dependants.

Higgins is committed to a drug-free workplace. The successful applicant will be required to pass pre-employment drug and alcohol testing along with a health check – you’ll need to be fit for work!

Applicants for this position must have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

Building better roads for safer journeys – He pai ake te hanga o ngā rori, kia haumaru ai ngā haerenga

We are actively looking to fill this role and encourage your early application. Applications are reviewed regularly, and we reserve the right to remove the advertisement before the advertised closing date.

Research shows that females and minority groups don’t always apply for roles unless they match 100% of the requirements. So, if this role is of interest but you feel you don’t quite fit, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are enriched by many nationalities, languages, religions, customs, and lifestyles. We are proud of our diversity and see it as one of the things that make us better together.