Lead City Planner

EBR Ever Better Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Industry Leader in Global Engineering invites a seasoned Lead City Planner to join a senior role in NSW. The position focuses on statutory and strategic planning, delivering high-quality approvals and guiding client-led master planning and precinct outcomes.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, mentor professionals, and manage risks while collaborating with clients to achieve exceptional planning outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in NSW statutory and strategic planning.
• Bachelor's degree in planning or related field.
• Ability to lead high-performing teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Current driver's licence.
• Experience navigating DA’s/SSD’s or precinct/development scale planning is highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of professionals, including mentoring and technical guidance.
• Delivering private sector approvals across diverse markets.
• Engaging with clients to support master planning, precinct planning or regional planning outcomes.
• Utilising a strong appreciation of infrastructure's role 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

Strategic planning

Team leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Statutory planning

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Our client is an industry leader in global engineering and advisory company and operates worldwide. They provide advisory, design, delivery and asset management services on projects across the globe. With constant innovation, they are always endeavoured to explore and deliver solutions to their clients with their own ingenuity. This is a perfect opportunity for you to demonstrate your skills and expertise with one of the leading engineering and advisory company in the world!

We are looking for a full-time Lead City Planner with experience in statutory planning, approvals and strategic planning in NSW for our client, or someone who is ready for a senior position as their next step in their career!

Here are some of the responsibilities of the role:

• 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

Some of the experience we want to see:

• 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!