Senior Transport Planner- Network Planning

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible work options

Competitive salary

Job summary

Transport for NSW is seeking a Senior Transport Planner in Milsons Point to influence the future of NSW transport. You will contribute to planning guidance, frameworks, and tools, and lead data-driven network planning projects, balancing policy directions with stakeholder needs.

Join a team dedicated to robust evidence, collaborative engagement, and flexible hybrid work arrangements, with opportunities to influence accessibility and land-use integration across the state.

Qualifications

• Experience in transport planning, infrastructure, consulting or the public sector.
• Solid foundation in transport planning principles with relevant tertiary qualifications.
• Curious, proactive and motivated to shape industry leading transport planning practice.
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality transport planning outputs using evidence-based approaches.
• Confident using evidence to provide clear, practical transport planning advice with data-driven methods.
• Effective in multidisciplinary environments with stakeholders and experts.
• Clear and collaborative communicator who translates complex analysis for audiences.
• Strong technical capability to develop guidance, frameworks and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop transport planning guidance, frameworks and tools such as the Guide to Transport Impact Assessment.
• Play a central role in network planning projects defining the future transport system.
• Contribute to industry-leading technical guidance and planning tools.
• Lead innovative, data-driven planning outcomes balancing priorities and policy directions.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts and external partners.

Skills

Experience in transport planning

Transport planning principles

Curious and proactive

Deliver high-quality outputs

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Clear and collaborative communicator

Translate complex analysis to insights

Project management approaches

Data-driven planning

Education

Tertiary qualification in planning/engineering

Job description

Senior Transport Planner- Network Planning

Organisation/Entity:Transport For NSW

Job category:Planning

Job location:Milsons Point, NSW, AU, 2061

Job reference number:107004

Employment type:Permanent Full-Time

Salary range:$141678.0-$158677.0

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.

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. 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. Learn more via our Flexible work options and policy. Flexible work options may be available. Learn more viaFlexible work options and policy

Benefits

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.

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.