Transport Planning Team Lead

Transport Planning Team Lead
Mott MacDonald is a dynamic and innovative engineering, management and development consultancy working with high profile clients across Australia. We are wholly independent, employee-owned company with strong local leadership and autonomy.
We have a supportive and collaborative culture which values equality and diversity, and we take proactive steps to create an inclusive workplace.
These are exciting times at Mott MacDonald Australia. We reached our 10-year anniversary milestone in 2020 and through this time we have experienced extensive growth.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.
We are committed to bringing diversity of thinking into our team, which means we value alternative paths, understand there will be career gaps and we have a culture in place ready to cultivate your talent. If you don’t have all the requirements listed below, but feel you can do this job, then we encourage you to apply.
Your opportunity
Mott MacDonald’s transport planning team is at the cutting edge of integrated transport planning, and we are looking for a highly driven professional to lead our growing team in Sydney.
You will join a local team which has built a reputation for excellence and innovation in the development and delivery of transport planning, modelling, and engineering projects.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Support and develop the transport planning team in NSW and collaborate with interstate leads to manage transport planning requirements across Australia and other disciplines.
- Be client facing, develop and maintain close client relationships and focus on delivering work to an excellent standard, in line with client expectations.
- Deliver, manage and/or oversee a range of projects that could include transport planning, master planning, traffic modelling, pedestrian modelling, active transport, Movement and Place analysis, travel demand management and transport infrastructure planning
- Working with the ANZ Transport Planning Practice Lead to develop tactical strategies that are aligned with sector and unit goals and that are adaptive to change
- About You
You will have both a personal and professional passion for transport planning. You will have an excellent track record at delivering projects in a commercial/consultancy environment.
You will be able to demonstrate the following qualifications, skills, abilities and experience:

- Degree in a relevant field such as Civil Engineering, Geography or similar
- Enjoy being client-facing and keen to develop client relationships to assist the team in delivering Transport Planning projects and be proactive with clients with regard to delivering and winning work
- Experience in managing the successful delivery of transport planning projects
- Adept at mentoring and guiding staff to upskill and assist the professional development of the team
- A passion to continuously build capability and innovation across traffic and transport planning

We want you to be with us for the long-term, so providing you with ongoing development and training opportunities is important to us.

Job Profile
- Our Benefits
Sydney is one of our largest offices in Australia, and we offer a range of compelling benefits and facilities to make this a great place to be, including:

- State of the art office and end of trip facilities
- Agile working
- Competitive salary and group bonus incentive scheme
- Options to purchase additional annual leave
- Employee Assistance Program enabling access to confidential and free coaching and counselling service
- Employee Resource Groups including APNA Equality Diversity & Inclusion team, Corporate Social Responsibility Groups, Reconciliation Action Plan team

We champion a diverse and inclusive workplace and strive to create spaces of belonging for our humans.
We are proud to be a Work180 Endorsed Employer and Diversity Council of Australia members.
We’re always on the lookout for talented people who share our values to join our team and contribute to our culture. Connect with us to find out how.

Other Information
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.
Agile working
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and tr