Service Leader - Transport

About the Role

Are you ready to build something significant in Auckland’s transport sector?

Vitruvius is seeking an accomplished Transport Service Leaderto establish and grow our Auckland transport offering. This is a rare opportunity to shape a service line from the ground up, build a high-performing local team, and strengthen our presence across the Auckland market.

You will combine strategic leadership with credible technical expertise, serving as a trusted adviser to key clients while overseeing business development, commercial performance, technical quality, and project delivery.

What You Will Do

As our Service Leader, Transport, you will:

• Build trusted client relationships and identify opportunities to grow our transport portfolio.
• Develop and lead the strategy for Vitruvius’ Auckland transport service offering.
• Lead bids, proposals, pricing, and key commercial decisions.
• Recruit, develop, and lead a collaborative, high-performing Auckland team.
• Act as Vitruvius’ primary transport technical authority in Auckland.
• Provide leadership and oversight across complex projects, ensuring strong safety, quality, programme, budget, and client outcomes.
• Drive technical excellence, operational efficiency, revenue growth, and sustainable commercial performance.
• Champion health, safety, wellbeing, innovation, and continuous improvement.

What You Will Bring to Vitruvius

Essential:

• At least 15 years’ experience as a technical professional within the transport sector.
• Proven experience in business development, strategic planning, and growing a service offering.
• Strong experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
• An established New Zealand industry profile and professional network in Auckland.
• Significant consulting experience, supported by strong commercial and project delivery capability.
• A relevant degree or equivalent qualification in engineering, business management, or finance.
• New Zealand Chartered Professional Engineer status or equivalent.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder engagement, and commercial decision-making skills.

Bonus Points For:

• A postgraduate qualification in engineering, management, or business.
• Experience leading complex projects and multidisciplinary teams.
• Contract administration or Engineer to Contract experience in horizontal infrastructure.
• Experience using digital tools, data, emerging technology, or AI to improve project and client outcomes.
• Recognised technical expertise or contribution within the transport industry.

What Makes This Role Special

• Build the Future. Establish and shape Vitruvius’ transport presence in Auckland.
• Lead with Influence. Become a trusted technical and strategic partner to clients, industry partners, and your growing team.
• Create Your Team. Recruit, mentor, and develop the people who will help deliver your vision.
• Strategic Impact. Influence how opportunities are pursued, projects are delivered, and the service line performs.
• Limitless Ambition. Join a growing consultancy where your expertise, ideas, and relationships can make a lasting mark.

What Vitruvius Can Offer You

• Strategic influence in a growing firm. Your ideas will shape how we grow, work, and deliver.
• Professional development, including conference attendance and leadership training.
• Flexible working, with hybrid arrangements available.
• Genuine work-life balance.
• A diverse, collaborative team that is small enough for your voice to matter.
• A truly supportive culture

Vitruvius is dedicated to creating an environment where Limitless Ambition can thrive. We value the individual skills and expertise every team member brings, and we encourage our people to innovate and collaborate so we can produce our best work together. We are building a workplace where people want to engage with clients and one another. A place that promotes, empowers, and willingly blurs the line between work and adventure.

Ready for a Change?

If you want to work on meaningful transport projects, take greater ownership of delivery and join a consultancy where your judgement will be trusted, send your CV and a brief introduction to [email protected].