Senior Planner Kaiwhakamāhere Matua

2 weeks ago


Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Beca Full time

Senior Planner | Kaiwhakamāhere Matua (Wellington | Te Whanganui-a-Tara)

  • Leadership opportunity delivering transformational planning projects across a range of sectors such as transport, city growth planning, and natural hazard resilience.
  • Develop your career working with, learning from, and being mentored by industry leaders who are passionate about supporting you and your professional development.
  • Shape the Wellington region, providing strategic planning consultancy services to 'make everyday better' in a fun and collaborative workplace.

The opportunity | Te kāinga rua


Make an impact in this senior planning delivery role where you will take the lead working with our clients who are doing incredible things every day.

You will take a Planning leadership role across our Wellington planning, communications, and engagement team where you will be delivering community shaping projects across Wellington and the surrounding regions.

This role will also offer you opportunities to lead, mentor, and develop those in the early stages of their planning careers.


As a member of our tight-knit team, you'll work on exciting, high-quality planning and environmental consulting projects alongside clients, including Greater Wellington Regional Council, Waka Kotahi, Wellington Water, Transport, Defence, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, Ministry for the Environment among others.


As well as being focused on great projects - we're also passionate about promoting career development opportunities for our employees.

We provide opportunities for exposure to a range of projects and clients while working closely with transport specialists, landscape architects and urban designers along with environmental advisors and engineers.


During this time of significant change in our planning system, we are investing heavily in our people so that we are at the forefront of the reforms and our planners have the skills needed to be effective into the future.


About you | Te rongoā


As an experienced, high-performing planner, you will be passionate about making a difference delivering complex community, infrastructure, and development projects.

We are looking for a savvy, innovative, and commercially minded professional with a collaborative approach who is motivated to be part of, and strengthen, our growing planning business.

Advancing your technical skills and knowledge and supporting the next generation of Planners will be important to you. You will have a relevant tertiary qualification and be a full member of the NZPI or working towards this.


You will also have a natural flare for leadership and the ability to engage effectively with clients, stakeholders, and the public.

We have flexibility to shape the role around you, depending on your level of experience.

About us | Ko wai mātou
Beca is one of Asia Pacific's largest independent advisory, design, and engineering consultancies.

We are an international team of almost 4,000 who bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.

We are proudly New Zealand headquartered and an employee-owned business creating a culture of collaboration, ownership, and care.

Our team is passionate about Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Aotearoa and love making a difference to the community in which they live and play.



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