Senior Consultant / Urban Planner, Environment and Planning

Just imagine your future with us…

Aurecon brings ideas to life to design a better future. Imagining what is possible, we turn problems into solutions. Using innovation, eminence and digital we seek to unravel complexity, create clarity and invent new value for clients. Diversity is at the core of everything we do. We work together to create a culture based on respect, trust and inclusiveness. Our differences are what fuel our creativity.

We embrace flexible working and are always open to discussing your individual needs so that you get to create your own experience with us.

What will you do?

In this position you will join our Environment and Planning Advisory business, where you will play an integral part in a team of highly skilled specialists that ‘bring ideas to life’ for our clients across the built environment, transport, land and water, energy and government sectors with a particular focus on systems and networks that support cities and precincts.

You will support in the management of multidisciplinary infrastructure and precinct scale developments and possess a knowledge and understanding of areas such as environmental planning, land use planning, urban design, regulatory approvals, and smart cities. You will be part of a team that seeks to coordinate and facilitate a ‘connected’ Aurecon, where you will draw upon your strong interpersonal skills and the technical expertise of the business to facilitate our clients in decision making phases of the project lifecycle particularly in relation to master planning, environmental assessment and project optionality and feasibility studies.

A Key Attribute For This Position Is a Strong Understanding Of Environmental And Planning Legislation As It Applies To Large Scale Infrastructure Projects. Here Is What You Will Do To ‘bring Ideas To Life’

• Provide urban planning advisory and consulting services to public and private clients
• Support in the management and delivery of multidisciplinary medium to large scale infrastructure projects, in particular identification of relevant planning and environmental opportunities and constraints through the master planning, concept, due diligence, feasibility and/or detailed design stages.
• Collaboratively working with other parts of Aurecon as necessary to leverage Aurecon’s technical ability to deliver planning advisory work.
• Engage and navigate clients through complex technical and legislative requirements, innovation strategies, frameworks, and approval pathways.
• Exercise outstanding interpersonal skills to develop relationships with a wide range of clients and critical internal and external stakeholders.
• Help to grow our capability and reach in the master planning and precincts sector as part of our broader Environment and Planning Advisory offering and developing a connected Aurecon.
  
  

We know today’s complex challenges can only be solved through bringing together diverse teams of people from across our business, so there will be opportunities for you to apply your skills and creativity to projects in other geographies and markets.

What can you bring to the team?

Firstly, You Will Be Someone That Actively Pursues Continuous Learning To Help Shape The Future. To Be Successful In This Position You Will Have

• Project experience (suited to your career status) at all phases of a project's life cycle and particularly master planning, feasibility studies, development assessment, infrastructure studies and technical management.
• A demonstrated ability to foster and evolve relationships.
• Have an ability to identify planning opportunities and constraints, and regulatory approvals associated with a variety of small to large infrastructure projects to inform decision making phases of the project lifecycle.
• Strong communication (both written and verbal), problem solving, influencing and presentation skills to work on complex tasks across various sectors of the business while interacting with internal and external clients.
• Experience of working and supporting in multidisciplinary teams
• A Bachelor’s degree or higher in urban planning, environmental planning, urban design, or similar.
  
  

The role may suit individuals with 5+ years’ targeted experience who have a deep understanding of Federal/State/Local Government Planning and Regulatory Frameworks and how they relate to infrastructure land use planning as well as experience in dealing with regulatory agencies and private developers.

About Us

Aurecon is an advisory and engineering company, but not as you know it!

For a start, our clients’ ideas drive what we do. Drawing on our deep pool of expertise, we co-create innovative solutions with our clients to some of the world’s most complex challenges. And through a range of unique creative processes and skills, we work to re-imagine, shape and design a better future.

We listen deeply and intently, which helps us see opportunities, possibilities and potential that others can’t.

Want to know more?

You can learn more about what it’s like to work at Aurecon by visiting the careers section of our website.

If you are intrigued or excited by what you have read, then we want to hear from you. Apply now!