Senior Assets and Planning Specialist
Caring for our city, creating a future for all
Our people are passionate about their communities and connected to their teams. They’re motivated by our genuine commitment to diversity and inclusion, and our clear, compelling plan for our global city: .
Be part of a purpose-led organisation, with care at its core. You’ll make a difference by acting in the best interests of our communities and city. Be better together with collaborative and inclusive partnerships. Embrace possibilities and be open to new ideas and creating bold solutions.
The City of Sydney has an exciting opportunity available for a qualified, experienced and motivated person to work as part of our friendly and professional Planning Assessments Team.
In this role, you’ll be responsible for developing, implementing and overseeing the City’s response to sustainability planning controls including, providing advice to applicants, input into assessments, follow up post consent sustainability commitments, employee training and creating resources, development of systems and processes.
You’ll support the implementation of the City's own net zero initiatives, evaluate current City asset performance, identifying opportunities for environmental efficiency improvements, and execute retrofitting projects.
To be the successful candidate, you must have:
- tertiary and/ or professionally recognised qualifications / direct experience in sustainable building services, plant and assets across technical services within all facets of building and infrastructure
- experience in the assessment or development of planning related application sustainability tools and standards
- proven ability to develop and focus on sustainable asset management strategies and deliverables around ROI and criticality within portfolios.
At the City of Sydney you’ll join a dedicated team where individual effort is part of something much bigger – creating great things for our city’s dynamic future.
To apply: Upload your resume and respond to the application questions to show how you meet the role’s requirements. Select 'Apply' to complete your online application.
The successful applicant is required to complete a pre-employment health declaration and national criminal check.
Position description:
Applications must be submitted online by 11:59pm on Thursday 8 August 2024.
For further information contact: Andrew Thomas, Executive Manager Planning and Development on 02 9265 9616.
A challenging and rewarding career:
We offer a teams-based approach to flexibility. Our flexible working benefits include 26 week parental leave, paid partner leave of 6 weeks and paid super for up to 52 weeks of parental leave. You’ll have the opportunity to work a 19-day month with flexible working options.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and celebrate a workplace as diverse as our communities. We’re passionate about gender balance in the workplace, with an executive team that is two-thirds female and 50% of our leadership roles held by women.
We encourage all applicants, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, and people of diverse sexualities and genders to join us.
We’re a disability confident recruiter. If you identify as a person with disability and require adjustments or support for your application and throughout the recruitment process contact the Recruitment Team recruitment@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au or 02 9265 9333.
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- Company
- City of Sydney
- Location
- NSW
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- 26 Jul 24
- Applications due
- 8 August 2024
- Salary
- $143,353.00 - $160,642.00 per annum plus Superannuation