Technical Director - Structural Engineering

• Engineering
• Auckland
• Full Time

28/9/2026

• Play a crucial role in a strong team of Technical Directors
• Bring your deep technical expertise the country's most complex projects
• Share your expert knowledge to help our talented engineering teams

For more than six decades, across New Zealand and the world, Holmes has led the engineering industry in invention, creativity and quality. We’ve built our reputation on the strength of our technical brilliance, ability to innovate, and our unwavering commitment to delivering engineering excellence. Holmes is a robust and resilient business with a strong balance sheet and a stable, consistent team across the country. Holmes has continued to focus on the highest technical standards, and our TD team remains a vanguard for quality in the industry. We have an exciting set of projects both in progress and in the offing over the longer term, and a strong pipeline underpinned by long-term relationships with many of New Zealand’s leading clients, architects, contractors and other stakeholders.

We’re looking for technical experts to join a strong and collaborative team of Technical Directors driving quality and continuous improvement at Holmes. You might have specific areas of technical excellence, like concrete, timber or steel, or be more of a design generalist. Either way, you’ll have experience in delivering heavy-duty technical design guidance on complex and important projects, working with the latest technologies, systems and processes to determine design actions and structural behaviour. You will have also contributed to the advancement of the engineering profession by writing academic papers, presenting at conferences or contributing to external technical committees. Alongside your deep technical knowledge, you’ll have sound commercial skills, strong leadership and relationship-building capabilities, and excellent facilitation and presentation skills. You’ll thrive working in a close-knit team, where collaboration and communication cut across all levels and locations.

In return, you’ll be working with and guiding some of New Zealand's best engineers—providing technical leadership and innovation so Holmes continues to deliver projects that enhance the Holmes brand and deliver our customers immediate and long-term value. Holmes has a flat structure where you have the freedom and opportunity to pursue your engineering ambitions, working alongside like-minded people who love the challenge of pushing the boundaries and finding better ways to solve new and age-old problems.

Hard work's a big part of what's got us where we are today, but it's not the final word. At Holmes , we have a vibrant, fun culture. If sport is your thing you can join our touch, indoor netball, or football teams. Bootcamps, ski and cycle trips are also on the menu if you want to get involved, and we’ve got a range of social functions throughout the year if they take your fancy. We’re a friendly, relaxed team that loves getting stuck into great projects, with plenty of fun and good times along the way.

Apply online here. If you’d like more information, please get in touch.