Senior Transport Planner

About the role: The Senior Transport Planner is responsible for providing technical planning advice to the Transport Strategy Team, ensuring transport networks across all modes are optimised, that forward planning is based on sound evidence, and meets Councils Strategic Objectives. The team has grown as a result of demand and has a trusting, flexible environment that looks after one another
**About the company**:
Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) is a territorial authority in Te Waipounamu South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. QLDC has a central role to play in maintaining and enhancing the quality and liveability of the outstanding environment of the district.

Employing over 500 staff in one of the most stunning locations in the country, Queenstown Lakes District Council is at the very heart of a dynamic community. The services provided are essential to the people in the region and include infrastructure development, community recreational facilities and planning, building and other regulatory services.

With a collaborative internal culture and positive external image, the QLDC has a solid pipeline of work and projects, and as such, has created this new role for someone who has passion and precision to come on board.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Advise the Transport Strategy Manager and identify best practices for QLDC transport planning and contribute to strategic infrastructure planning.
- Contribute to the formulation of a mode-shift plan and travel management plan.
- Scope/acquisition management plan for toolkit tasks.
- Create infrastructure solutions for the Long-Term Plan and Annual Plan capital program.
- Provide technical inputs for business cases, transportation modelling and strategic documents.
- External partners relationship building and management
- Acquisition and management of professional services, including procurement

**Key Requirements**:

- 7-10+ years of professional experience
- Relevant tertiary education desirable in Transport and/or RMA planning or Engineering
- A strong understanding of NZ transport planning and modelling systems, business case processes, urban planning policies, local government legislation.
- Leadership, project management, procurement, and consultancy skills.
- Great people and communications skills.
- Is autonomous, immerses in challenges and solves problems collaboratively

This opportunity would suit someone who can add value culturally, has great technical knowledge, can make immediate impact and is looking for a role with relative autonomy and flexibility, but also larger responsibility. The location of Queenstown adds the beautiful outdoors to the scope and the benefits of serving this wonderful community will be felt for future generations.

About the role:
The Senior Transport Planner is responsible for providing technical planning advice to the Transport Strategy Team, ensuring transport networks across all modes are optimised, that forward planning is based on sound evidence, and meets Councils Strategic Objectives...