City Planning Team Lead

EBR Ever Better Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EBR Ever Better Recruitment is recruiting a City Planning Team Lead in Sydney, NSW, to drive statutory, master and precinct planning across diverse markets. You will lead a multidisciplinary team, mentor staff, and engage clients to shape development outcomes.

The role requires NSW planning experience, a bachelor’s degree, and a proven ability to deliver high-quality reports while managing risks and relationships with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in NSW statutory and strategic planning.
• Bachelor's degree in an appropriate field.
• Ability to lead and motivate high performing teams.
• Strong communicator and natural collaborator.
• Current driver's licence.
• Experience navigating DA's, SSD's, or strategic planning at precinct or development scale is highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of professionals, including mentoring, coaching and providing technical guidance
• Delivering private sector approvals with diversity of scale across a range of markets
• Engaging with clients to support master planning, precinct planning or regional planning outcomes
• Utilising a strong appreciation of the role infrastructure in land use planning
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary project teams
• Preparing reports to exceptional technical and editorial standards
• Managing commercial risks and opportunities
• Improving or building key client relationships

Skills

Team leadership

Mentoring

Client engagement

Strategic planning

Statutory planning

Communication

Collaboration

Report writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

If you have played city planning games, you will know how difficult it is to plan everything smoothly. The only difference is, you now have the chance to work in one of the world's leaders in global engineering and advisory company that operates worldwide as a City Planning Team Lead, where your state-of-art work will be making history.

We are looking for a full-time City Planning Team Lead with experience in statutory planning, approvals and strategic planning in NSW for our client! You will be rewarded financially, as well as a sense of achievement as you lay the cornerstone for the future.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of professionals, including mentoring, coaching and providing technical guidance
• Delivering private sector approvals with diversity of scale across a range of markets
• Engaging with clients to support master planning, precinct planning or regional planning outcomes
• Utilising a strong appreciation of the role infrastructure in land use planning
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary project teams
• Preparing reports to exceptional technical and editorial standards
• Managing commercial risks and opportunities
• Improving or building key client relationships

Experience

• Experience in NSW undertaking statutory and strategic planning
• Minimum bachelor's degree in an appropriate field
• An ability to lead and motivate high performing teams
• Strong communicator and natural collaborator
• A desire to deliver exceptional client experiences
• Current drivers licence
• Experience navigating DA's, SSD's, or in undertaking strategic planning at precinct or development scale is highly regarded!