The opportunity | Te Whiwhinga mahi
Due to internal promotions, we have Transport Planning opportunities available in our National Transport Planning Teams. We are looking for Principal, Senior and Transport Planners which can be based in our Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Palmerston North, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch or Otago offices.
You’ll be supporting and leading transport planning initiatives across New Zealand in partnership with local councils and other key stakeholders you will bring your transport planning expertise to support and lead initiatives at early conceptualisation and optioneering phases through to detailed design.
You will develop transport initiatives through our business case process, applying your transport planning expertise to develop customer focussed, safe, sustainable, resilient and accessible transport solutions that respond to short, medium and long term challenges such as rapid growth in our major cities and climate change.
About you | Ko wai tēnei
We are looking for confident self-starters, who thrive working collaboratively with diverse and varied stakeholders to achieve positive transport outcomes coupled with an innate curiosity, solution focus and learning mindset.
Depending on your experience, you’ll bring:
We have an exciting array of projects in the pipeline in our transport planning team. Whilst our teams are based geographically, we collaborate and operate as a national team with opportunities to work across the country no matter your office location.
Our projects incorporate a range of solutions including infrastructure, digital and Intelligent Transport Systems, behaviour change, network optimisation, travel demand management and road pricing.
Some of our key projects include mass rapid transit in our major centres, optimisation, resilience work to respond to climate adaptation plans, VKT (Vehicle Kilometres Travelled) reduction and mode shift, responding to land use changes to ensure we have integrated land use and transport planning.
There has never been a more exciting time to join Waka Kotahi and help to create positive transport outcomes for Aotearoa!
To view the position descriptions, click on the different titles – Principal Transport Planner, Senior Transport Planner and Transport Planner
Along with our other benefits we also have new Waka Kotahi Life, Income Protection and Critical Illness Insurance scheme available for permanent employees.
Ko wai mātou | About us
Waka Kotahi has a strong future focus, understanding that new technologies and changing customer expectations mean the transport system we know today will not be the one we deliver in ten years time.
Rā Katinga | Applications close:
7 November 2022
For further information, email: [email protected]
To be considered for this position you must have a legal right to live and work in New Zealand.
Waka Kotahi is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing a working environment that embraces these values. Please let us know if you need any support or have any access requirements that will help you through the recruitment process.
Please note that we may begin shortlisting as we receive applications. We encourage early applications as we may withdraw the advertising at any time.
If you are a contractor/temp currently working with Waka Kotahi, you may apply for internal vacancies however please note that we will give consideration to permanent employees first.
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