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SalaryTitle: Urban Planner
Our purpose is Together deliver Infrastructure for a better tomorrow
KBR’s Infrastructure Services Australia business works with clients across the nation to deliver projects that create a better, more sustainable and technology-enabled future for all Australians. Through trusted partnerships with our clients, our best and brightest deliver innovative solutions across the transport, water and environment, buildings, defence infrastructure, and program management and construction consultancy markets.
We are a team of over 800 diverse, flexible, adaptable and highly skilled people in Australia who provide a wide range of professional consulting services to the private and public sectors. Our high-performing teams are digitally connected and geographically diversified to match the changing characteristics of our principal markets and have the expertise to serve our clients’ requirements through the full project lifecycle.
We are committed to social and environmental sustainability and delivering projects with a digital mindset that drives innovation within our business, for our clients and stakeholders.
Our people blend seamlessly into customer teams to help create a positive impact on the communities and environments they seek to improve. Our expertise and adaptability are unmatched and continue to meet the demands of tomorrow to help shape Australia’s future for the better.
The Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity available for an Urban Planner to join our team in Melbourne.
Reporting to the Planning Lead on a major government project, you will be delivering planning services on a range of projects across the transport, maritime, water, and the built environments. Projects delivered may be discrete studies or plans and can influence any stage of project life cycle.
This role will immediately deliver some of the city shaping Level Crossing Removal Projects in Melbourne. Subsequentially, we have a range of project opportunities in other areas – tell us your goals any we’ll help you reach them.
As an Urban Planner, you will develop and maintain good relationships with clients, statutory authorities and internal stakeholders. You will be required to manage the provision of planning and approvals advice during project development and delivery. This will include the preparation of planning permit applications and reports, applications for environmental approvals, heritage permits and exemptions, and strategic planning advice as required. You will be collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to come up with creative solutions to delivery high quality outcomes for our clients.
The environment team in Victoria is focused on empowerment, passionate collaboration and is driven to achieve excellence. The team describes its culture as positive, supportive and professional and a group of technically competent people open to innovation and trying new things.
Who are you?
As an individual you are excited by the prospects of delivering iconic projects with key clients. You have demonstrated your ability to work closely with other consultants and development teams in delivery of projects and proposals for a range of clients and infrastructure types.
You understand the importance of actively maintaining professional networks within the company and across broader industry and building strong relationships with a range of government departments and industry stakeholders.
You will have the following skills and experience:
Bachelor’s degree in planning
Demonstrated planning experience in Victoria and a working knowledge of the VPP and planning, and planning related legislation
Strong stakeholder management skills
Proven ability to work independently and as part of a team
Eligibility for membership of a professional association
At KBR, we value you – here’s how’
While our people are busy delivering leading science, technology and engineering solutions, we’re committed to providing them with a supportive, trusting environment and benefits that enable them to thrive and continue doing what they do best.
We can offer you flexible and family friendly working arrangements including flexibility with hours as well as your work location. You will receive ongoing professional development and the opportunity to work with technically eminent professionals. Employees of KBR may benefit from up to eight additional hours of accrued flexible leave every month.
KBR has all the benefits of a global organisation with a local company feel. You’ll get to know everyone in the Victorian business and won’t just be a number.
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