Planner - Intergrated Planning

• Assist in the development of servicing options in System Planning team
• Contribute to the planning of water and wastewater strategies for Greater Sydney considering integrated product approach
• Based at our Parramatta Head Office
  
  

About The Role

The Infrastructure System Planner will assist the Systems Planning and Land Acquisition (SP&LA) team with the creation, planning and delivery of products and services to Sydney Water’s customers. This role plays an essential part in ensuring optimum service levels are always provided to our customers.

System Plans set the servicing direction to support growth in line with the NSW Government’s overarching vision, and its plans for that specific region or precinct. These plans present a 30-year strategic pathway and a 5-year investment plan for integrated water services and outputs of these plans are developed in collaboration and consultation with external stakeholders, including government agencies and local councils. These plans are the basis of our publicly available Growth Servicing Plans.

You Will

• Undertake, with supervision and guidance, the development of system planning activities for integrated water (Water, Wastewater, Storm water , Re-cycled water) including preparing planning guidelines, tenders, plans and business cases and contribute to high quality planning outputs and solutions;
• Realise within plans, integration opportunities across systems, drivers, customers, catchments, resources, materials, products and services:
• Provide urban water management expertise in some specific areas (stormwater, water, wastewater, etc) that contributes to developing plans:
• Provide inputs to components of plans as they are developed and reviewed:
• Complete allocated planning tasks, within required timeframes and compliant with planning procedures
  
  

Who are we looking for?

• Tertiary qualification in Engineering, Infrastructure Management, Planning, Science or a related discipline
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience, with demonstrated experience and skills in the development and management of integrated approaches to urban water service and infrastructure planning.
• Understanding and experience with major water or other similar utility
• Understanding of Strategic Asset Planning concepts and evolving infrastructure planning techniques
• Demonstrated experience in written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills internal and external to the organisation.
• Water and Wastewater modelling experience will be preferred.
  
  

What’s In It For You

• Flexible/Hybrid working
• Use of vehicle for work purposes as required
• Parking options available
• Childcare allowances
• Up to 18 weeks’ Parental leave
• Novated lease options
• Fitness Passport offering access to hundreds of gyms and pools around NSW
  
  

Department Overview

Sydney Water’s Systems SP&LA group leads the development of short, medium and long-term integrated plans for assets, systems and regions. Key customers and stakeholders include local government, regulators, customer and community groups, developers and planning bodies.

The SP&LA group - comprising of Master Planning System Planning, Treatment Planning ,Program Management and Land Acquisition - is focused on ensuring Sydney Water delivers the right assets at the right time via the management and delivery of Regional and Precinct plans, Integrated Systems plans, and Feasible Conceptual Designs and timely acquisition of land to support creation of new assets and maintain/upgrade existing assets.

At Sydney Water, we are passionate about making a difference to the lives of our customers and communities. We have a proud heritage and progressive future providing world class drinking water and services that are vital to our customers’ quality of life and safeguarding Sydney’s future. We see the world is changing, so we are changing too.

Our vision is to create better lives through world-class services, and we believe that starts with our people. Our people and their jobs are as diverse as the communities we serve. Our diverse skills, mindsets and backgrounds work together on exciting and challenging projects that make a difference and help ensure Sydney remains one of the most iconic and liveable cities in the world.

You must be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident at the time of submitting your application to be considered for this role.

Sydney Water welcomes you to apply if you feel you meet the selection criteria. The successful completion of a Criminal History Check and background checks form part of the application process.

We welcome and encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, including First Nations people, LGBTQIA+, people with disability, people with caring responsibilities, and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

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Do you think you are up for the challenge? We would love to hear from you! Please submit your resume, cover letter outlining your experiences and respond to the screening questions as part of the application.

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