Funmilayo Ebun Rotimi has rich and varied work experience with a range of skills from analytical skills and research skills to many more interpersonal skills developed while mentoring and teaching students. Funmilayo began her career as a structural design engineer in a Nigerian civil engineering consultancy practice, managing several civil engineers. She delivered on some complex but exciting concrete building structure projects. Also, in Nigeria, she worked in facilities management for an oil company (NNPC) and in a university's building maintenance service department. In New Zealand, Funmilayo worked as a development engineer at a consultancy firm involved in stormwater design and land sub-divisions. After the completion of her PhD, she began an administrative role at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and then moved on to become the lead lecturer for the Diploma in Construction Management (quantity surveying strand) at Northland Polytechnic (NorthTec international campus). Funmilayo rejoined AUT as a lecturer with the Built Environment Engineering Department. Dr. Funmilayo is actively involved in research, with interests in building quality and performance; construction project management; offsite construction and health and safety; and construction productivity.