Graduate Planner

**2x Full Time Fixed Term Positions - 3 years**

**Band 5 - Salary Range $76,355 to $87,925 per annum + 11% Super + ADO**

**Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.**

**About Melton City Council**

The City of Melton is a community where everyone belongs. Ours is a vibrant and diverse municipality — one of the fastest developing in Australia. Our organisation strives to provide our community with state-of-the-art amenity and facilities, engaging health and wellbeing options, and support to become active members of our Lifelong Learning City.

We invest in innovation, offering professional and personal development, and generous leave and flexibility to staff, while also fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. You’ll be able to work close to home in a dynamic setting featuring cafes and retail options set amongst heritage buildings and open green spaces.

**The Opportunity**

We are looking for recent Town Planning graduates for our three-year graduate program. As a Planning Graduate at Melton, you’ll kick start your planning career by:

- Undertaking rotations in our Statutory Planning, Major Developments, and City Strategy teams.
- Being exposed to a variety of planning matters relevant to Growth Area Planning, including dealing with rural, residential, industrial and commercial land use and development, heritage matters, subdivision, Precinct Structure Plans and policy work.
- Participate in tailored graduate learning and development opportunities.
- Be supported and mentored throughout your graduate rotation to assist in your career development.
- Be encouraged to attend key industry events and network opportunities.

**Key Responsibilities**

As a graduate planner at Melton you will undertake rotations in our Statutory Planning, Major Developments and City Strategy teams. In these rotations you will:

- Assist with customer service enquires relating to planning matters.
- Assist in the preparation of strategic planning studies and planning scheme amendments
- Assist in the preparation of Precinct Structure Plans

To view the **Graduate Planner (Statutory Planning) Position Description**, click **here**

To view the **Graduate Planner (Major Developments)** **Position Description**, click **here**.

**About you**

**_ To be successful in this role you will have the following:_**
- A tertiary qualification in Urban Planning or a related discipline.
- No more than 2 year's experience in a Planning role.
- Certification in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), project management, or related fields can be advantageous.
- Current valid Victorian Driver’s Licence.

**Culture and Values**

Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.

We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:

- Motivate
- Empower
- Lead
- Trust
- Open
- Nurture

**Benefits**

There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council:
Staff Benefits | Melton City Council
- 13 ADO's (Accrued Day Off) per year
- 4 weeks and 2 days annual leave **(As of 1st of July 2024 will increase to 5 weeks)**:

- Flexible Working Hours
- Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
- 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave **(Super is paid during parental leave)**:

- 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave
- Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (Melton City Council | Australian Breastfeeding Association)
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Subsidised Uniforms

**How To Apply**

If you require further information about the position, please contact **Steve Finlay**, Co-ordinator Statutory Planning, on **9747 7162**.

Applications must include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role. To address the Key Selection Criteria, you will need to write short statements explaining how you meet the criteria, or how you demonstrate the capability. We encourage you to keep your responses concise.

**To be eligible for employment at Melton City Council you must be legally entitled to work in Australia.**

All successful applicants will need to undertake pre-employment requirements including but not limited to a satisfactory criminal history record check. Successful applicants must be able to comply with any COVID-19 Public Health Orders applicable to Local Government employees and Council’s COVID-19 vaccination policy which require employees to provide documentary evidence of their vaccination status before attending the workplace.

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