As a Structural Asset Management Engineer at GRIT Engineering, you’ll turn engineering insight into smart asset decisions, helping asset owners and operators get more from their infrastructure and industrial assets over their whole life. This is a role for an experienced civil or structural engineer who wants to work beyond traditional design, leading projects and giving clear, practical advice that makes a real difference.
You’ll take the time to understand each client’s assets, strategy, performance objectives and challenges. Then you’ll translate complex technical information into clear, commercially sound advice, from long-term strategy and investment planning through to operational optimisation.
You’ll work closely with inspectors, engineers and project teams, with the autonomy to lead your own work and experienced specialists around you when you need them. There’s also real scope to help shape GRIT’s growing asset management offering.
GRIT exists to engineer a better way - smart, practical solutions that add value and stand up in the real world. We challenge assumptions when it matters, we work as one team, and we walk the talk.
The Challenge:
Lead structural asset management projects, including asset strategies, lifecycle plans, condition and risk assessments, maintenance planning and performance monitoring.
Work with asset owners, clients and stakeholders to understand their asset portfolios, risks and whole-of-life priorities.
Review inspection findings, condition assessments and asset data, applying objective judgement and root cause analysis to develop practical, risk-based recommendations for maintenance, remediation and renewal investment.
Apply best practice asset management principles to strategies, plans, reports and specifications, and advise clients on asset optimisation and performance monitoring.
Work with project and engineering teams to build asset management thinking into design, construction, remediation and renewal solutions.
Lead project scoping, pricing, forecasting and delivery, including scope, programme, budget, risk, quality and HSE.
Build trusted client relationships and identify opportunities for follow-on work.
Mentor junior team members and help strengthen our asset management tools, templates and frameworks.
Champion safety, quality and professional standards - for yourself and the team.
Your Skills:
A civil or structural engineering degree, and CPEng or a clear pathway towards it.
7+ years’ relevant experience, with genuine depth in structural asset management, lifecycle engineering, integrity assessment or risk assessment of existing assets.
Practical site experience across infrastructure, industrial, maintenance, construction or brownfield environments.
Experience developing asset management plans, lifecycle strategies and risk-based recommendations, ideally aligned with ISO 55000 principles.
A practical, whole-of-life mindset. You naturally weigh up options, commercial outcomes and lifecycle value rather than defaulting to design calculations.
Confidence leading projects independently, and knowing when specialist input is needed.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to speak to both engineers and clients.
Experience with AWM/RAMM, Maximo or similar asset management systems is highly regarded.
Current New Zealand work rights and a current driver licence.
Location: Dunedin or Christchurch, with flexible working (including working from home one to two days a week by agreement) and occasional travel to our other offices and client sites.
Email CV + Cover Letter to: people@gritengineering.co.nz
In your cover letter, tell us the top three reasons you’d be a great fit for GRIT and this role, how your experience shows practical, whole-of-life asset management thinking, and what you hope to achieve by joining the team.