Infrastructure Planner

Description:

Urbis has an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join our Infrastructure Advisory team in Sydney/Parramatta as an Infrastructure Planner. This role is ideal for motivated individuals interested in how land use planning, infrastructure funding, and financial analysis come together to support the delivery of housing, jobs, and communities.

This opportunity is well-suited to planners, economists, engineers, or policy professionals with a strong interest in infrastructure planning and working with numbers. You will be part of a collaborative team that provides strategic advice on infrastructure funding, development contributions, and funding modelling, shaping better planning and infrastructure outcomes across NSW and Australia.

As an Infrastructure Planner, you will apply strategic thinking, cost analysis, and urban planning knowledge to infrastructure funding strategies at local and regional levels. You will have the opportunity to work alongside and learn from leading experts and have the opportunity to build a specialist career in a high-demand area of planning.

Your Role
 

• Help prepare infrastructure delivery plans, funding models, and development contributions frameworks to support land use planning.
• Apply numerical analysis to forecast infrastructure costs and funding sources (e.g., Section 7.11, 7.12, and other forms of infrastructure funding).
• Assist in assessing funding capacity, considering options like state contributions, special rate variations, and developer contributions.
• Work with councils, government agencies, and developers to provide practical, evidence-based advice.
• Draft planning reports, funding strategies, and infrastructure delivery plans for major projects.
• Support policy reform initiatives to improve infrastructure funding and delivery across NSW and Australia.
• Work with other professionals on multi-disciplinary projects, delivering work on time and to a high standard.
   

About You
 

• Tertiary qualifications in Planning, Economics, Engineering, Property, or a related field with an interest in strategic planning and infrastructure funding.
• Strong numerical skills and Excel proficiency to analyse funding models and infrastructure costs.
• An interest in urban infrastructure, development contributions, and financial planning.
• Experience in statutory or strategic planning, infrastructure funding analysis, or financial modelling (desirable but not essential).
• Ability to explain financial and planning concepts clearly and concisely.
• A collaborative mindset and eagerness to develop specialist expertise in infrastructure funding and planning.