Emma McDonald

DIRECTOR

Emma is a Chartered Professional Engineer, proficient in change management and project management, particularly in front-end project development. She has over 20 years’ experience in a wide range of sectors and contract types including energy, industrial, roading and social infrastructure, for both public and private sector clients and under PPP, Alliance, ECI, D&C and build-only arrangements.

She has experience in setting strategic vision, asking challenging questions, looking for areas of improvement, managing a wide range of options and opinions to reach common project objectives, and facilitating the achievement of those objectives.

Emma is a collaborative leader who is results-orientated and committed to doing what is necessary for teams to succeed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Chemical & Materials – The University of Auckland, 1999
• Masters of Science (Dist.), DIC, Corrosion of Engineering Materials – Imperial College, London, 2001
• Executive MBA – The University of Auckland, 2011
• CMEngNZ, MEngNZ – Chartered Professional Engineer, Member of Engineering NZ (IPENZ)
• CMInstD – Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors NZ, 2021-current

Expertise:

• Project Manager
• Change Manager
• Facilitator and Collaborator
• Effective Communicator
• Problem Solver
• Strategist

Employment History:

• 2017 – Present Director, Pragmatix Limited
• 2009 – 2017 Bid Manager, The Fletcher Construction Company
• 2015 – 2016 Business Improvement and Change Lead, The Fletcher Construction Company
• 2005 – 2008 Project Engineer, Shell Global Solutions (Malaysia)
• 2001 – 2005 Materials & Corrosion Engineer, Shell Global Solutions (The Netherlands)

SELECTED PROJECTS:

Bid Manager, Project Engineer, Project Manager, for various projects including:

Project	Value	Brief Description of Project Work
Air NZ	TBA	Feasibility studies at the Auckland Campus
F&P Healthcare	TBA	Masterplanning phase for new Karaka Campus
Drury Metropolitan Centre – Kiwi Property	TBA	Masterplanning design and stage 1 phase for new mixed-use metropolitan centre
Modular Showhomes – Kainga Ora	$7-10m	Development of terraced showhomes to demonstrate a new off-shore modular product to the market
Holiday Inn	c. $40m	Development to expand existing hotel, to be built by volumetric modular construction
Waikeria Prison	$1b	PPP tender
Lean Construction Implementation	NA	Business improvement project
Auckland Prison	$270m	PPP tender
Transmission Gully	$900m	PPP tender
SMDS Gas-to-Liquids Plant, Malaysia	$17m – $117m	Brownfield projects, various
Pearl GTL Plant, The Netherlands	$17b	Design phase