Sustainability Master Planner

**Sustainability Master Planner**
- Work for an international thought-leader for sustainable design.
- Be a part of an organisation that is driven by sustainability, innovation, and new technologies.
- Committed to the improvement and development of our communities & culture.

This is an opportunity to work for a thought-leader of sustainable design in Australia - A consultancy focused on improving the way we interact with the buildings and community spaces around us. Based in Sydney, the Sustainability Master Planner will help in the creation of highly innovative and sustainable "community spaces and places".

**About the role**:
As a Sustainability Master Planner, you will be responsible for developing sustainability visions, identifying, and recommending appropriate sustainable design initiatives, leading detailed feasibility studies, and providing general ESD consulting for large-scale place and precinct projects. You will also provide ESD consulting on other kinds of projects, typically early-stage building concept designs and building portfolio sustainability strategies.
- Working closely with great architects, urban designers, engineers, and clients to shape a more sustainable world.
- Contribute, develop, and integrate sustainable design measures within landscape and place projects in Australia and overseas.
- Creation of documents which concisely communicate sustainable design integration and compliance for planning submissions.
- Manage aspects of master planning projects, with support from project leaders.
- Conduct technical environmental studies.
- Manage assurance programs like Green Star and WELL Community.
- Create explanatory diagrams, illustrations, and text.
- Guide graduate staff in technical tasks.
- Develop local expertise in technical design practices and share that knowledge with the global team.

**Benefits**:

- An extremely competitive salary, commensurate with your experience (recent salary reviews have seen large increases, to remain an industry leader for pay)
- Exciting project work with substantial project responsibilities.
- Collaborative planning and design opportunities with leading sustainability thinkers and design practitioners.
- Broad industry exposure including international work opportunity.
- A flexible work environment - Flexible working options. And flexibility of the office spaces themselves, with low light and noise rooms, private meeting rooms and communal areas.
- Excellent opportunities for further training and career growth
- The company encourages you to develop your own skills too and will support your development towards becoming a Senior Designer.
- They will also support your participation in professional and client organisations, teaching, and thought leadership activities.
- Enthusiastic workmates, insightful mentors, and our global network of sustainability experts.

**Who are you**:

- Experience in master planning or urban design projects.
- Knowledge of the property development environment, trends in place-making, life cycle assessments & embodied carbon calculations.
- Experience with sustainability bench-marking tools (Green Star, WELL, Climate Active, etc).
- You will collaboratively solve problems with project teams, and you will effectively communicate the design implications of innovative environmental strategies.
- You're proactive, self-motivated, a team player, and comfortable taking responsibility across multiple sustainable master planning projects.
- You get excited about learning new things and enjoy sharing your skills and knowledge across the company.

**Necessary Qualifications**:

- Master's degree or equivalent 5-yr Bachelor's degree in a field related to environmental or sustainable building design, architecture, urban design, planning, or engineering.
- 3+ year's experience in an ESD, environmental design, sustainable built environment consulting, urban design or master planning role.
- Understanding of NSW planning policy, pathways, and documentation requirements.
- Excellent graphic, verbal, and written communication skills.