Technical Director Structural

Why TMCo

Join TMCO’s award‑winning team. Founded in 2009, we’ve grown from a tight-knit core into a national consultancy of over 85 professional engineers. Despite our growth, we’ve retained an agile, positive, and collaborative culture, no corporate red tape, just passionate people driving smart, practical engineering.

As a true multi‑discipline consultancy with offices across New Zealand (Kerikeri, Auckland, Tauranga, Whanganui, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, Queenstown) and in Australia, we lead on sustainability, energy innovation, Green Star, NABERSNZ, seismic resilience, and full building services across all major project sectors.

Benefits You’ll Love

Competitive hourly pay (min 37.5 hrs/week) paid at upper quartile of ACENZ packages + overtime, bonuses, medical/surgical cover
Supportive, flexible environment – fully covered trainings, memberships, mentoring, and career development
Engaging projects and a fun, regular social calendar across NZ

We’re not just engineers; we’re a team that backs each other, takes pride in what we do, and enjoys the journey. If you’re looking for meaningful work, great people, and a company that genuinely values its staff - this is the place.

Job description

With a large forward workload, we’re looking for a Technical Director to come in and take a technical lead within our structural team. You’ll work with a competent team of 20, that is collaborative, able to think outside the box and are naturally wired to go beyond the status quo.

You will be involved in a wide variety of work including commercial, retail, government, hospitality, education, aged care, high-end residential, industrial projects, etc., from project conception through to completion. Your key responsibilities will consist of being a structural team leader, engineering design, networking and marketing, establishing and maintaining relationships, meeting with clients and onsite observation.

Your Role Will Include:

Managing the effective delivery of project packages
Leading and providing input into strategic pursuits and bids
Providing technical input, mentoring and review to project teams
Keeping up to date with technical and legislative developments and seeking opportunities to develop a professional profile
Building effective and enduring relationships with other teams and technical disciplines and external organisations to foster cooperation and maximise cross-sell and trade-up opportunities
Providing technical expertise and overview to client and stakeholders and assisting clients through technical decision-making and provide alternatives options/solutions if there are changes to project parameters
Managing an ongoing relationship with the client and influencing decisions in both the client organisation and the industry

Candidate profile

Ideal Candidate:

15+ years’ relevant NZ consulting experience on projects of significant scale and/or complexity
Relevant degree or equivalent professional accreditation
The ability to ensure that the quality of all projects of your team are of a consistently high standard
Service focused approach – we have a wealth of repeat clients – this comes down to our design ability and excellent service delivery
Recognised expertise in the delivery of structural projects
Demonstrated technical, commercial and delivery acumen
Recognised leader in the structural discipline
Proven ability to network and influence at peer levels and demonstrated ability to lead, with good influencing, motivating and delegation skills
Excellent communication and relationship building skills, both internally and external

How to apply

Interested?

Please contact mikeb@tmco.co.nz to find out how you can be part of this multi-award winning team working on some of NZ’s highest tech and leading edge projects.