New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Engineer extraordinaire JO’S TUNNEL VISION!

As a child, Jo Wilton spent hours in the sandpit building roads, bridges and tunnels. At 15, she was captivated by a tour of the Auckland University Engineering Department and knew she’d found her calling. In her thirties, she was breaking stereotypes, running toolbox meetings on site as a project engineer while eight months pregnant. And now, at 46, she’s still leading the way having celebrated the opening of the Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway – a multimillion-dollar roading project she

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