Senior Transport Planner at New Zealand Transport Agency, Wellington

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Showcase your transport planning and business case expertise on some of New Zealand's most important projects
• Contribute to economic prosperity with safe, sustainable, resilient and accessible transport solutions
• Based at any Waka Kotahi office

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

As a Senior Transport Planner, you will be supporting and leading transport planning initiatives across New Zealand in partnership with local councils and other key stakeholders. You will bring your transport planning expertise to support and lead initiatives at early conceptualisation and optioneering phases through to detailed design.

You will develop transport initiatives through our business case process, applying your transport planning and engineering expertise to develop customer focussed, safe, sustainable, resilient, and accessible transport solutions that respond to short-, medium- and long-term challenges such as rapid growth in our major cities and climate change.


Ko koe tēnei | About you

We are looking for a confident self-starter, who thrive working collaboratively with diverse and varied stakeholders to achieve positive transport outcomes coupled with an innate curiosity, solution focus and learning mindset.

Depending on your experience, you'll bring:

• A track record of transport planning in a business case context, including problem definition, option development, appraisal and evaluation, stakeholder engagement and project approvals
• Ideally detailed design experience and sound project management skills, including a high delivery focus and excellent attention to detail
• Experience managing professional services contracts to quality, time and budget constraints, reviewing outputs in association with subject matter experts
• Ability to connect people and navigate legislative process and political drivers to deliver great outcomes for our customers
• Sufficient knowledge, depending on level, to work independently or with support to provide planning and design advice across the organisation and externally
• A working knowledge of business case principles to ensure proposals are evidence based, aligned, and represent a compelling case for investment

You will demonstrate knowledge of, or a willingness to gain an understanding of Te Ao Māori and promote tikanga and Te Reo Māori. You will also have knowledge of, or a willingness to gain an appreciation of te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi) as it applies in the public sector.

We have an extensive pipeline of exciting projects across multiple outcome areas, as well as some challenging outcomes to achieve, including delivering on New Zealand's road safety strategy Road to Zero, enhancing system resilience and supporting Aotearoa towards achieving its net zero commitments.

About us | Ko wai mātou

The focus of the Transport Services group is to provide, improve and maintain an integrated land transport system to effectively enable people-centred, technology-enabled, system focused transport services, in partnership with other system providers.

Along with our other benefits we also have new Waka Kotahi Life, Income Protection and Critical Illness Insurance scheme available for permanent employees.


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Rā Katinga | Applications close : Sunday, 24 July 2022

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For further information, email: careers@nzta.govt.nz

To be considered for this position you must have a legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

Waka Kotahi is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). At the Agency we recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing a working environment that embraces these values. Please let us know if you need any support or have any access requirements that will help you through the recruitment process.

Please note that we may begin shortlisting as we receive applications. We encourage early applications as we may withdraw the advertising at any time.