Planners - All Levels

About the role:
As part of the planning team, you will be involved in:
Strategic Advice
- Guiding and developing the strategic planning and consenting approach for projects to manage planning, environmental and consenting risk.
- Working with our project managers on the development and delivery of project programmes.
- Influencing environmental and planning outcomes through a collaborative approach working with our clients and design teams through all stages of the development and delivery of projects.
- Providing strategic and innovative planning advice and guidance to support potential bids.
- Working closely with our internal and external clients to assist them in achieving their strategic and required outcomes and goals.

Statutory Processes
- Liaising with and managing a wide variety of specialists and expert inputs to ensure the delivery of required outcomes related to planning and consenting matters.
- Assisting with coordinating expert evidence reports and where required be a credible expert witness and act in accordance with the Code of Conduct of the Environment Court at Hearings.

Relationship, Client and Stakeholder Management
- Assisting with key relationships, mana whenua forums/hui, stakeholder engagement, and communication related to resource management processes and development advisory.
- Liaising with and reporting progress to Clients/stakeholders to ensure your advice, position and recommendations are properly represented.
- Growing the business through your excellent interpersonal skills and responding to our client's changing needs.

About you:
We are seeking self-motivated Planners of all levels who value building enduring relationships with clients and colleagues. You will possess skills in infrastructure and/or environmental planning and a strong understanding of the NZ planning system and relevant legislation.

You will have excellent oral and written communication skills. A strong customer driven work ethic will underpin your expertise and will be among a range of skills that will assist you in building a strong profile within Mott MacDonald and among our clients, as you will interact with internal and external clients to form key relationships.

If this sounds like you, we'd also like you to have:

- A relevant planning or environmental science degree.
- Proven track record in district and regional planning (three-years plus experience);
- Experience in a project environment, providing quality technical knowledge and judgement with ability to lead projects.
- NZPI membership an advantage, but not essential.

At Mott MacDonald we are always looking for the best people to join us.

We can offer you all the benefits that come from working in a global consultancy, including a competitive salary and benefits, ongoing professional support, career development and a great opportunity to work on innovative major projects.

There's no time like the present to make a change.

**Job Profile**

Mott MacDonald is a dynamic and innovative engineering, management and development consultancy working with high profile clients across New Zealand and Australia. We are a wholly independent, employee-owned, and global company with strong local leadership and autonomy.

Mott MacDonald's Advisory team is growing rapidly, and we have a wide range of experience across Infrastructure Advisory, Planning, Economics, Project Management, Environment, Sustainability, Climate Change, Regenerative Outcomes, Asset Management, and Digital Consulting to provide advice to our clients that covers the full spectrum of considerations over the entire infrastructure lifecycle.

**Other Information**

**Equality, diversity and inclusion**
We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.

**Agile working**
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.

**More about Mott MacDonald**
We're a global engineering, management and development consultancy.

Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients' businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person's differences and striving to meet their needs.

Our values: progress, respect, integrity, drive, excellence