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Senior Planner

24/06/2025
18/07/2025
Permanent - Full Time
Melbourne
Design and Architecture

About Spiire

We are an integrated team of passionate town planners, urban designers, landscape architects, surveyors, civil engineers, water engineers, and visual media artists providing specialist consultancy services to the property and infrastructure sectors. Our team of more than 350 people work across ten offices in VIC, NSW, SA, QLD and the ACT.

About our Town Planning Team
Now is an exciting chapter of growth for our Town Planning team our business as we continue to invest in building deep technical expertise, fostering strong relationships and offering solutions that enhance our clients’ success.

Our vision is to be the number one consultancy for planning in property and infrastructure known for our expertise and impact by unlocking value in complex projects across our core markets of Urban Development and Renewable Energy, in addition the Health, Education and Local Government sectors.

As part of a truly integrated property and infrastructure consultancy, we are connected to a larger team of specialists and broad industry expertise. By integrating seamlessly with our multidisciplinary teams, our goal is to set a new benchmark for planning services—one defined by excellence, trust, and impact.

We partner with our clients, who put their trust in us to guide them on their journey and achieve their goals. With a focus on achieving the right approach for our clients, we succeed in delivering the best outcomes for our communities.

Job Description

The Opportunity

Our Town Planning team is growing! With exciting project prospects on the horizon and ambitious growth plans afoot, we are now seeking expressions of interest from experienced town planners.

As a Senior Town Planner at Spiire, you will:

  • Prepare planning applications for projects of varying scale and budgets, liaising and negotiating with local councils and authorities as needed
  • Be the primary point of contact for the client, ensuring complex challenges and problems are managed
  • Own the Project Management responsibilities including managing invoicing, planning, tracking project health and mitigating potential issues
  • Help expand and maintain relationships with our top tier clients
  • Work closely with other professions, both internally and externally, to help deliver practical and timely outcomes for clients
  • Connect and share knowledge with our team of town planners across other geographies

 

About You

First and foremost, you share our passion for bettering the communities we live and work within, both now and in the future. You are a qualified, experienced town planner or urban planner who has often been described as dependable and responsive; you are known for doing what you say you’ll do. You will come to us with:

  • Extensive experience in the local market, working in a diverse range of projects, geographies and stakeholder groups
  • Well versed in commercial management across people, projects, finances, client relations, and contracts
  • Demonstrated success in a leadership capacity within a multidisciplinary consulting firm
  • A passion for coaching and mentoring; you value a culture of constructive feedback and take a consultative approach

Our Culture

At Spiire, we believe that our culture is our difference. We’re a forward thinking, people-centric business that recognises the importance of working as one team towards a common goal. As a successful and growing employee-owned business, we recognise and reward the contributions of our people and provide real opportunities and pathways for career progression. We’ve built a vibrant team culture and inspiring environment for our people to grow as we grow. We believe in our people, and they value what we do – it’s why they join and stay.
 

Here’s a snapshot of what’s on offer:

  • An awesome CBD office location that emanates our corporate value of fun! Includes a breakfast bar, table tennis, regular happy hour and wellness room
  • Health and wellbeing events promoting physical and mental wellbeing
  • An extension of leave benefits including study leave, volunteer days and attractive parental leave policy

If this role sounds like you, please follow the link below to apply. For more information on Spiire, check out our website at www.spiire.com.au