Transport Planning Lead

• Opportunity to develop your people leadership skills
• Competitive Salary + Civil Liability Allowance + Super
• Hybrid working | RDO's | Employer of Choice
• Located in vibrant Macquarie Park!

About Us

City of Ryde, just 12 kilometres from Sydney CBD, is a place of unique lifestyle and opportunity. It is home to an engaged and culturally diverse community of around 130,000 people, and a strong and growing Smart City economy including more than 13,000 local businesses, Macquarie Park, world-class hospitals, and a leading university. All balanced with beautiful bushland, riverfront parks, open spaces, and sport facilities.

Our City is undergoing significant population growth as we address the housing crisis in a collaborative manner with the NSW State Government. Council anticipates our population to double over the next 30 years. To address this rapid population growth, Council has developed a strategy to “strike the right balance”, ensuring that employment opportunities and provision of critical infrastructure occurs with significant housing uplift.

Our council will continue to deliver a broad range of services, projects, programs, and events. We are actively committed to innovation, sustainability, resilience and providing exceptional customer experiences, and this relies on attracting and keeping great people. We offer a range of benefits, including flexible work arrangements, health and wellbeing programs, a learning and development program including study support, and a reward and recognition program.

About the Role

City of Ryde | Make Your Mark

Want to shape how a city moves? Join City of Ryde and play a key role in delivering smarter, safer and more connected transport networks. In this leadership role, you’ll guide a small team and drive the development of forward-thinking transport strategies, policies and plans that balance growth, sustainability and community needs.

You’ll work across Council and with external partners to solve complex transport challenges, using data, insights and innovation to influence real outcomes. From parking and active transport to road safety and precinct planning, your work will help create a more liveable and accessible city. Along the way, you’ll manage projects, consultants and business cases to ensure high-quality, value-driven delivery.

This is a great opportunity to lead meaningful, city-shaping work in a collaborative and progressive environment. If you bring strong transport planning experience, leadership capability and a passion for better urban mobility, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and help define the future of transport in Ryde.

About You

Are you a Transport Engineering Lead (known as Senior Coordinator Transport Planning in City of Ryde) to take the future of transport of City of Ryde to the next level. Your superior transport engineering skills are key to bringing your projects together and thinking of the future-state City of Ryde.

You will have experience working in a similar role or a transport SME wanting to develop their people leaderships skills coupled with the ability to build strong relationships. Your influential approach along with your superior negotiation skills will drive positive outcomes for the City of Ryde.

In addition, you will also have:

• Degree in Engineering (Civil), Town Planning, Transport Planning or other relevant discipline, with substantial diversified experience in transport planning and some management experience.
• Class C Drivers’ Licence.

• Significant experience in transport planning including the development and preparation of multi-modal transport plans and strategies, preferably in a government environment.
• Sound knowledge of integrated land use and transport as well as the State planning framework
• Demonstrated experience in preparing policies, controls and guidelines relating to transport planning matters.
• Experience in transport infrastructure planning.
• A good understanding of transport modelling such as SIDRA, including the different levels of modelling, their appropriateness for different projects, and their inputs and outputs.
• A good understanding of traffic engineering, road safety, active transport and ‘place’-based transport performance measures, including when and how they are applied.
• Demonstrated ability to undertake high level research on complex traffic and transport related topics.
• Demonstrated ability to review the validity of traffic models.
• Knowledge of key legislation such as the Roads Act 1993, Transport Administration Act 1988, etc. governing public road and transport infrastructure.

Your commencing annual salary will be up to $147,295.22 + Civil Liability Allowance (3.5%) + Superannuation, dependent on your experience and qualifications.

Culture & Benefits 

• Commitment to providing opportunities for work/life balance
• Hybrid work from home and office arrangements available for eligible positions
• Flexibility regarding start and finish times to suit your lifestyle
• Work 37.5 hours and enjoy one RDO every 3 weeks
• Long service leave after 5 years, then accrued monthly 
• 18 weeks paid parental leave (for eligible employees)
• 3 extra leave days at Christmas to ensure you have time to enjoy the holiday 
• Annual performance reviews and Award increases
• Opportunity to sign up as a fitness passport member
• Various health & well-being initiatives (i.e. flu vaccinations, etc.)

How to apply

Please ensure you give full answers to the online application questions, showcasing your abilities and experience. Your answers, in conjunction with your resume, will determine if you are invited to an interview. 

Please note you do not need a “password” to use our on-line application system, however you have the option save and return to your application prior to the closing date. In addition to answering the online questions, this position requires you to attach your Resume to complete the application process.  Please note, you are not required to submit a cover letter or a statement addressing selection criteria. 

Closing Date: Tuesday 2nd June 2026 at 11:30pm

If you would like to know more, please see the position description or job-related enquiries please contact Kelly Hawkins, Talent Acquisition Specialist on 9952 8480 for a confidential discussion.

                                                         City of Ryde is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer