Senior Planner | Planning - Senior Urban Planner

Description

• Deliver planning input and support for a wide range of urban, regional, and socioeconomic projects across multiple sectors. Work directly with clients and multidisciplinary teams with minimal supervision, representing Arup at internal and external meetings. Respond to client challenges by applying integrated planning and design approaches that promote inclusive, sustainable urban environments. Support strategic decisionmaking by combining planning expertise with investment and infrastructure insights, and contribute to proposals and tender submissions. Lead, guide, and develop junior team members while upholding Arup’s Quality Management System and ensuring high standards of project delivery.

Requirements

This role provides expert Urban Planning services to Arup’s New Zealand planning team, based in our Auckland office. You will bring curiosity, problem-solving skills, and professional insight to lead the strategic planning workstream across multidisciplinary projects. Working across transport, urban development, and infrastructure sectors, you will help shape inclusive, sustainable, and future-focused places.

• At least 5 years of experience and recognised tertiary qualifications in Urban and Regional Planning or a related discipline. Strong knowledge of the New Zealand planning system, including current reforms, and a proven track record in urban planning, city economics, or transport planning. Professional membership or eligibility toward membership of relevant planning or industry bodies. Consulting experience in the development and implementation of planning projects, with excellent written communication and reportwriting capability. Strong leadership, relationshipbuilding skills, and the ability to motivate, mentor, and inspire team members while remaining calm and effective under pressure. Minimum qualifications, skills, and experience listed above meet the requirements for this role under the New Zealand Job Check framework.

Benefits

Location: Arup Auckland OfficeEmployment Type: Full-time (40 hours per week, minimum guaranteed)Salary Range: NZD $115,000 – $135,000 per annum

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling eligible members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair, and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

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• Hybrid working policy and flexible working hours Paid parental leave for the primary carer of 16 weeks or 32 weeks at half pay, plus generous unpaid leave benefits Paid parental leave for the support carer of 2 weeks, with options for additional paid/unpaid leave if becoming the primary carer later Birthday leave Ability to purchase up to 20 additional days of leave (permanent employees) International mobility opportunities Insurances (life, travel & income protection) Interestfree bicycle loans Free & confidential counselling sessions

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

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