Principal Planner

**Principal Planner**

RPS has an outstanding opportunity for an experienced and passionate **Principal Planner** to join our team based in Fortitude Valley on a permanent full time basis.

This role would suit an experienced professional keen to grow their career as part of an enthusiastic and friendly team who pride themselves on technical excellence.

This is an opportunity to work in a stimulating and supportive work environment amongst a team of dedicated and influential experts in their fields working on the most interesting projects in the industry. We have deep experience across urban planning, energy transition and place making. We are looking for someone with experience in the Queensland development industry who wants to work in a multisector practice with fantastic clients, and assist in delivering greenfield master planned communities, inner city projects, built form, housing and employment, industrial and renewable projects.

You will be based within our Brisbane Place and Development Team, a multi-disciplinary team which includes town planning, landscape architecture, survey/mapping and urban design. The RPS Brisbane planning team is the largest within RPS nationally and undertakes diverse and complex work for a range of public and private clients across Queensland and further afield.

Principal’s within RPS supervise and manage projects, client relationships and project teams as required to ensure the effective and efficient delivery in line with client and business requirements. Our Principals are hands on - coordinating project deliverables and ensuring quality of the advice and service we provide and sharing their technical expertise. In addition, Principals coach and mentor junior staff and encourage professional growth within our team.

We love solving problems and sharing knowledge and understanding by collaborating with the different skilled professionals in our teams across our RPS offices nationally. We’re looking for someone keen to challenge themselves to find solutions and work collaboratively within a diverse team. We work with our deal advisory colleagues to provide commercially minded advice on infrastructure projects. We work with our communications and engagement, and project management teams as well as our environmental management, landscape architecture, urban design and survey teams to establish sustainable and practical project solutions.

This role is client facing with the opportunity to be the client liaison, and deal directly with other project team members, government and other key stakeholders. You will have the opportunity to mentor and work with more junior team members and will progress your career in an environment where you will be mentored and profiled as a professional.

We solve problems that matter to our clients and their communities. And we are easy to work with. We are confidently pragmatic and we have a winning mindset. Making complex easy.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Leading and delivering on project requirements for existing clients and creating new opportunities for the business through building connections and bidding on new work.
- Building a local profile through active industry representation and engagement.
- Management, mentoring, training of junior team members to ensure efficient work practices.
- Management of specialist consultants and their outputs.
- Liaising with clients, consultants and regulatory authorities regarding development and planning issues;
- Ensuring projects are delivered on time and to a high standard.
- Assisting clients to implement approval outcomes.
- Managing the financial health and invoicing for your projects.
- Working collaboratively with your colleagues at RPS.

**What you need to succeed**
- Tertiary qualifications in urban/town planning (or equivalent).
- 8 + years' experience in statutory planning (QLD experience required).
- Demonstrated capability in marketing & business development, financial management, people management and project coordination at a Senior level.
- Prior experience or demonstrated aptitude to perform in a senior role encompassing client management, project coordination and the leadership of project teams and staff.
- Experience in providing high quality strategic and statutory planning advice to public and private clients.
- High quality technical knowledge and report writing and communication skills.
- Ability to ensure projects are delivered on time and to a high standard.
- Experience in day to day project financial management including preparation of fee proposals and tenders and invoices.
- Strong commitment to client service and passion to shape planning outcomes.

**What’s on Offer**

Along with a competitive salary, RPS provides a diverse and inclusive work environment amongst a team of dedicated and pragmatic planning experts. RPS offers many benefits to ensure your professional development & well-being; these include but are not limited to:

- Family Inclusive workplace - Flexib