Corporate People & Capability Director

Corporate People & Capability Director

Apply to join Tonkin + Taylor as our Corporate People & Capability Director.

Who we are

Tonkin + Taylor Group is Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading engineering and environmental consultancy, renowned for our technical excellence and ability to solve complex challenges. With offices across New Zealand and Australia, we operate as a group of specialist companies that bring together deep expertise across a spectrum of disciplines, including environmental science, geotechnical engineering, transport, water, waste, and energy.

Our work connects the needs of people, planet, and performance, delivering sustainable solutions that make a meaningful impact for our clients and communities. As a 100% employee‑owned company, our people are truly at the centre of who we are. We’re driven by a shared mission : to create and sustain a better world. Join us and help shape an inclusive, high‑performing and future‑ready organisation.

We want your leadership

We’re looking for an accomplished Corporate People & Capability Director to lead our Group‑wide people and culture strategy across New Zealand and Australia. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer (COO), you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping how Tonkin + Taylor attracts, develops, and retains great people. You’ll work with leadership to strengthen the People & Capability functions across our operating companies, building a cohesive, values‑led approach that enables our people to perform and thrive.

You’ll lead a small team of direct reports and work in close partnership with other senior P&C leaders across the operating businesses, ensuring alignment and delivering high‑quality, fit‑for‑purpose people practices. This is an opportunity to apply your strategic, commercial, and people leadership expertise within one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most trusted professional services organisations.

What you’ll be doing

• Shaping and implementing the Group‑wide People & Capability strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities and future workforce needs.
• Advising the COO, Group Leadership Team and Board on people strategy, workforce risk, remuneration and organisational performance.
• Leading strategic initiatives in remuneration, reward, employment relations, organisational design, and workforce transformation.
• Overseeing the governance, policy, and risk frameworks that ensure fair, consistent people practices across operating companies and regions.
• Advancing leadership, talent, and capability development programmes that enable our people to perform at their best.
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, wellbeing, and engagement that reflects our values and supports collaboration across the Group.
• Driving the development of robust People systems, data, and analytics that support confident, evidence‑based decisions.
• Championing change initiatives that build agility, innovation, and future‑readiness within the business.

What you’ll bring

Our benefits

We embrace flexible working at T+T and aim to work in ways that support our people, clients and communities. Our commitment to inclusion means you can bring your whole self to work and thrive alongside passionate professionals who care about what they do.

Seniority level

Executive

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Administrative

For more information, visit or contact Ronny Bilkhu at Please submit applications online; we will not accept applications via email.

‘Everyone Matters’ is one of our core values at T+T, and we are proud to be an Immigration New Zealand Accredited Employer, a member of Diversity Works, and partners of TupuToa and Pūhoro STEMM Academy.

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