Statutory Planner

**The opportunity**

Join our team of intelligent and collaborative Changemakers and make your mark on tomorrow

Our Environment team is solving some of Australia’s biggest challenges. We are preserving and improving our built and natural environments, finding ways to use and re-use our resources, and building safe and future ready infrastructure to support places where communities can thrive.

As a **Statutory Planner**, you will have a chance to drive the future ready planning and delivery of major road and water infrastructure projects, as well as landfills and resource recovery, pumped hydro and renewable energy, and property projects.

We offer hybrid working arrangements, whereby you'll be based in either of our **Brisbane **or **Sunshine Coast** office, with the option to **work from home **two days per week, if desired.

**What you’ll do**
- Take the lead on small to medium planning projects
- Collaborate with your team, clients and regulatory authorities, and foster great relationships through accurate and timely planning advice
- Participate in business development opportunities such as the preparation of proposals.

Some of the key projects you might be involved in:

- Transmission line and renewable energy projects
- Coomera Connector Stage 1 North
- Big-T Pumped Hydropower Energy Storage project
- Water and waste programs for local authorities and water utilities

**About you**

You’re likely to have 3+ years experience in statutory or urban/regional planning, approvals or impact assessments, particularly on transport, water or renewable energy projects.

If you have equivalent experience in property development, government or defence sectors and are keen to deliver large scale infrastructure projects, we would also love to hear from you.

You will enjoy working with people, with a wide range of skills and backgrounds. You will contribute to the team through your work, knowledge and enthusiasm for our clients and projects.

In addition, you will have:

- Tertiary qualifications in planning and be eligible for membership of the Planning Institute of Australia
- Strong knowledge of Queensland planning legislation, policy and reform directions
- Project management or project coordination experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, attention to detail
- Experience working in a consulting environment
- A passion for planning issues and desire to help shape outcomes in urban and regional areas.

**About WSP**

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 4,500 talented people across 14 offices in Australia. We have committed to halving the carbon footprint of our designs and advice by 2030. Our sustainable solutions and Future Ready projects will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

Our vibrant workplace culture is an important part of what makes this a great place to work. It is supported by our Guiding Principles:

- We value our people and our reputation.
- We are locally dedicated with international scale.
- We are future focused and challenge the status quo.
- We foster collaboration in everything we do.
- We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.

WSP prioritises the health and wellbeing of our people by offering flexible working, 12 weeks parental leave, opportunities for global mobility, purchased additional leave, and competitive remuneration among many more benefits designed to help you shine. We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equal opportunity workplace. We promote Indigenous voices and are actively delivering a ‘Stretch’ level Reconciliation Action Plan. Accredited by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice, we also support the LGBTIQA+ community, and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work.

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