Senior Transport Planner

Transport for NSW; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 142,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Transport for NSW is seeking a Senior Transport Planner to shape NSW’s transport planning practice. You will help develop technical guidance, frameworks and tools and contribute to network planning projects, creating outcomes for customers and communities.

The role emphasizes evidence-based analysis, collaboration with subject matter experts and external partners, plus a flexible hybrid work arrangement enabling office and remote work.

Qualifications

• Experience in transport planning, infrastructure, consulting or the public sector.
• Qualified in planning, engineering or related discipline.
• Curious, proactive and motivated to shape industry leading practice.
• Ability to deliver high quality outputs using evidence-based approaches.
• Confident with evidence and using project management approaches and data-driven methods.
• Effective in multidisciplinary environments and with external partners.
• Strong communication to translate complex analysis into practical insights.
• Advanced transport planning capability with guidance, frameworks and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop transport planning guidance, frameworks and tools such as ITS guides and indicators.
• Contribute to network planning projects to shape the future transport system.
• Lead data-driven planning outcomes balancing policy direction and stakeholder needs.
• Provide high-quality, evidence-based advice to senior leaders.
• Assist updates to existing guidance and creation of new guidelines.

Skills

Transport planning

Data-driven analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Technical guidance development

Project management

Education

Tertiary qualifications in planning/engineering

Tools

Transport planning tools

Data analysis software

Job description

Help shape the future of transport across NSW. Use your transport planning expertise to influence strategic decisions that support growing communities, improve accessibility, and integrate transport and land use outcomes. Through evidence based analysis, stakeholder collaboration, and transport planning methods, you'll contribute to projects that help create connected, sustainable and liveable places across the state. In this role, you'll: Join the Transport Planning branch as a Senior Transport Planner to help develop important transport planning technical guidance, frameworks and tools such as the Guide to Transport Impact Assessment, Design of Roads and Streets and Transport Access Indicators. Play a central role in network planning projects that define the future of the transport system and create better outcomes for customers and communities in NSW. In this role, you will help shape the future of transport planning in NSW by contributing to the development of industry leading technical guidance, strategic frameworks and planning tools. You will work within the Technical Guidance and Frameworks team to strengthen transport planning practice across the state, applying strong technical capability to complex problems and producing high‑quality evidence-based advice. You will support updates to existing guidance and the creation of new guidelines, working closely with subject matter experts. You will help design strategic frameworks that define outcomes and guide how transport projects and business cases are delivered. You will contribute to technical innovation through new tools and products to support practitioners across the transport planning industry. You will lead and influence innovative, data-driven planning outcomes that improve integration between transport and land use in a complex, fast-paced environment balancing competing priorities, evolving policy direction and diverse stakeholder needs. For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description and information pack.

About you

• Experience in transport planning, infrastructure, consulting or the public sector, with the ability to contribute to products that lift capability across NSW’s transport planning system.
• Solid foundation in transport planning principles, supported by relevant tertiary qualifications in planning, engineering or a related discipline.
• Curious, proactive and motivated to shape industry leading transport planning practice.
• Proven ability to deliver high quality transport planning outputs using structured, evidence based approaches that support integrated transport outcomes.
• Confident working with evidence to produce clear, practical and well reasoned transport planning advice, and comfortable using project management approaches, transport planning tools and data driven methods.
• Effective in multidisciplinary environments, engaging confidently with subject matter experts and external partners.
• Clear and collaborative communicator who can translate complex technical analysis into practical insights for a range of audiences, including senior leaders.
• Strong technical transport planning capability, combining analytical rigour with the ability to interpret, develop and refine transport planning guidance, frameworks and methodologies.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day. Join us If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

Flexible work options

Flexible work options are available. We offer a genuine hybrid working arrangement with flexibility in how and where you work. This includes five days a month at the team hub in our Milsons Point office, time across any TfNSW office for at least half of your hours, and the flexibility to work from home for the remainder.

Salary

We offer a competitive salary, commensurate with the Transport Service Grade 8 level of the Transport for NSW award agreement, ranging from $141,678 to $158,677 plus superannuation and leave loading.

Applications close

Applications close 11:59 PM Sunday 1 November 2026.

Contact and Diversity

For more information about this role, please contact [e-mail]. Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal People or Supporting People with Disability for more information or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.