At a Glance
- Tasks: Shape the future of transport in NSW through innovative planning and strategic frameworks.
- Company: Join Transport for NSW, a leader in integrated transport solutions.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, flexible work options, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with diverse teams and excellent career growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on communities by improving transport accessibility and sustainability.
- Qualifications: Experience in transport planning with relevant qualifications in planning or engineering.
The predicted salary is between 141678 - 158677 $ per year.
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.
- Help shape the future of transport planning in NSW by contributing to the development of industry-leading technical guidance, strategic frameworks and planning tools.
- 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.
- Support updates to existing guidance and the creation of new guidelines, working closely with subject matter experts.
- Help design strategic frameworks that define outcomes and guide how transport projects and business cases are delivered.
- Contribute to technical innovation through new tools and products to support practitioners across the transport planning industry.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
Senior Transport Planner in Sydney employer: Transport for NSW
Transport for NSW is an exceptional employer that prioritises the wellbeing and work-life balance of its employees while delivering impactful infrastructure projects. Located in Newcastle, this role offers a collaborative work culture with opportunities for professional growth, as well as a commitment to diversity and inclusion, ensuring all voices are heard and valued. Join us in making a difference in the community while advancing your career in a supportive environment focused on achieving Net Zero goals.
