Senior Transport Planner

Organisation/Entity: Transport For NSW
Job category: Planning

Job location:
Milsons Point, NSW, AU, 2061

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Job reference number: 107004
Employment type: Permanent Full-Time
Salary range: $137551.0-$154055.0
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You care about creating a seamless experience connecting with communities and teams, no matter where you are in NSW.

Here's your chance to design and deliver efficient, customer-focused services that also enhance accessibility, sustainability and overall quality of living for more people than you've imagined.

In this role, you'll:
Join the Transport Planning branch as a Senior Transport Planner to help develop important transport planning technical guidance, frameworks and tools such as the Guide to Transport Impact Assessment, Design of Roads and Streets and Transport Access Indicators. Play a central role in network planning projects that define the future of the transport system and create better outcomes for customers and communities in NSW.

In this role, you will help shape the future of transport planning in NSW by contributing to the development of industry leading technical guidance, strategic frameworks and planning tools. You will work within the Technical Guidance and Frameworks team to strengthen transport planning practice across the state, applying strong technical capability to complex problems and producing high‑quality evidence-based advice.

You will support updates to existing guidance and the creation of new guidelines, working closely with subject matter experts. You will help design strategic frameworks that define outcomes and guide how transport projects and business cases are delivered. You will contribute to technical innovation through new tools and products to support practitioners across the transport planning industry. You will lead and influence innovative, data-driven planning outcomes that improve integration between transport and land use in a complex, fast-paced environment balancing competing priorities, evolving policy direction and diverse stakeholder needs.

For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description and information pack.

Flexible work options are available. We offer a genuine hybrid working arrangement with flexibility in how and where you work. This includes five days a month at the team hub in our Milsons Point office, time across any TfNSW office for at least half of your hours, and the flexibility to work from home for the remainder. Learn more via our Flexible work options and policy.

We offer a competitive salary, commensurate with the Transport Service Grade 8 level of the Transport for NSW award agreement, ranging from $141,678 to $158,677 plus superannuation and leave loading.

About you

You are an experienced transport planning professional who brings:

• Experience in transport planning, infrastructure, consulting or the public sector, with the ability to contribute to products that lift capability across NSW’s transport planning system.
• Solid foundation in transport planning principles, supported by relevant tertiary qualifications in planning, engineering or a related discipline.
• Curious, proactive and motivated to shape industry leading transport planning practice.
• Proven ability to deliver high quality transport planning outputs using structured, evidence based approaches that support integrated transport outcomes.
• Confident working with evidence to produce clear, practical and well reasoned transport planning advice, and comfortable using project management approaches, transport planning tools and data driven methods.
• Effective in multidisciplinary environments, engaging confidently with subject matter experts and external partners.
• Clear and collaborative communicator who can translate complex technical analysis into practical insights for a range of audiences, including senior leaders.
• Strong technical transport planning capability, combining analytical rigour with the ability to interpret, develop and refine transport planning guidance, frameworks and methodologies.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

Flexible work options may be available. Learn more via Flexible work options and policy

Apply today

Applications close 11:59 PM Wednesday 29 July 2026

For more information about this role, please contact ANNE.TRAN@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal People or Supporting People with Disability for more information or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.

Learn more about how to apply via Our recruitment process | Transport for NSW

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