Contracting Divisional Manager
Job reference : 4036044
Job Type : Full-time
Pay : $140000 - $160000 Full use private vehicle Annually
Location : Dunedin, Otago
Posted on : 12-05-2026
Be accountable for the overall leadership and performance for contracting departments, ensuring business, and project outcomes are achieved.
Lead a major civil contracting and rail operation delivering infrastructure projects across the Dunedin region.
This is a senior leadership role responsible for operational performance, commercial outcomes, tendering, project delivery, and leading large multidisciplinary teams across civil construction and rail projects.
You’ll oversee a broad portfolio including regional contracting works, maintenance projects, excavation, pavement construction, surfacing, utilities, safety improvements, and rail infrastructure delivery.
Some leadership roles are about keeping things ticking along.
This one isn’t.
This is a role where you’ll influence the direction, performance, culture, and future capability of an entire contracting division.
You won’t just be managing projects.
You’ll be leading people, driving commercial outcomes, securing future work, and building a high-performing culture that clients trust, and teams want to be part of.
This is the type of role where your reputation matters.
You’re someone who can walk onto a site, into a boardroom, or across a client meeting and command respect because you’ve done it before.
You understand contracting.
You know how to price work, win work, and deliver work profitably without compromising safety, quality, or relationships.
And importantly?
You know how to lead.
Not from behind a laptop.
From the front.
You’ll be responsible for leading project managers, engineers, supervisors, surveyors, foremen, operational crews, subcontractors, and plant resources across multiple concurrent projects.
You’ll also play a key role in:
This company is recognised nationally for delivering complex infrastructure and investing heavily in their people, systems and long-term growth.
If you’re a proven senior leader within civil construction who thrives on accountability, performance and building strong teams, this is worth a confidential conversation. Get in touch with Hayley on 027 752 8464 | [email protected]
This is a senior leadership role responsible for operational performance, commercial outcomes, tendering, project delivery, and leading large multidisciplinary teams across civil construction and rail projects.
You’ll oversee a broad portfolio including regional contracting works, maintenance projects, excavation, pavement construction, surfacing, utilities, safety improvements, and rail infrastructure delivery.
Some leadership roles are about keeping things ticking along.
This one isn’t.
This is a role where you’ll influence the direction, performance, culture, and future capability of an entire contracting division.
You won’t just be managing projects.
You’ll be leading people, driving commercial outcomes, securing future work, and building a high-performing culture that clients trust, and teams want to be part of.
This is the type of role where your reputation matters.
You’re someone who can walk onto a site, into a boardroom, or across a client meeting and command respect because you’ve done it before.
You understand contracting.
You know how to price work, win work, and deliver work profitably without compromising safety, quality, or relationships.
And importantly?
You know how to lead.
Not from behind a laptop.
From the front.
You’ll be responsible for leading project managers, engineers, supervisors, surveyors, foremen, operational crews, subcontractors, and plant resources across multiple concurrent projects.
You’ll also play a key role in:
- Tendering, pricing, and securing forward work
- Building strong client and stakeholder relationships
- Driving a high-performing safety and quality culture
- Managing budgets, forecasting, and P&L performance
- Developing capability and future leadership within the business
- Ensuring projects are delivered efficiently, safely, and profitably
This company is recognised nationally for delivering complex infrastructure and investing heavily in their people, systems and long-term growth.
If you’re a proven senior leader within civil construction who thrives on accountability, performance and building strong teams, this is worth a confidential conversation. Get in touch with Hayley on 027 752 8464 | [email protected]