Senior RMA Planner

Silverdale, Auckland | Full time | Senior Planner

Looking for your next step in planning? Join The Planning Collective – a highly experienced team that values professionalism and strives for the best environmental and community outcomes across a wide range of exciting projects throughout Auckland & Northland.

We're looking for a Senior RMA Planner to join us in a permanent full-time position. This is a fantastic opportunity to progress your career through hands-on experience spanning a wide range of planning processes - policy, consents, alternative dispute resolution, and council and court hearings. Lead exciting projects, and work in a region with strong and growing opportunities in land development.

This is primarily an office-based role that values collaboration and team connection, with hybrid flexibility available.

Why join us

The Planning Collective is an experienced planning consultancy with a strong local reputation and long-standing client relationships in a growing community. This gives you the platform to do meaningful, varied work that's hard to find in a larger firm. As a subsidiary of Buckton, we have access to a broader team of surveyors and ecologists - strengthening our planning capability to provide practical, solutions-focused advice across every stage of development.

With us:

• Gain hands-on experience in a wide variety of planning processes – policy, consents and community engagement.
• Opportunities to gain experience in council and court hearing processes.
• Develop practical project management skills across a varied workload.
• Gain exposure to a broad range of urban, rural, and coastal planning projects.
• Be based in the beautiful coastal communities of Silverdale and Warkworth.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and contribute to the delivery of resource consent and land development projects from initial scoping through to final determination.
• Undertake initial client engagement; prepare feasibility reports, cost estimates, and project timelines.
• Prepare and review Assessment of Environmental Effects (AEE) and private plan change requests.
• Represent client submitters to District Plan reviews processes, Notices of Requirement and the upcoming spatial plan processes,
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, managing expectations professionally and in the best interests of the organisation.
• Liaise with local authorities, iwi, community groups and other key stakeholders.

What you’ll bring

• A relevant NZ qualification in Resource Management Planning, Environmental Management or a related discipline, recognised by NZPI.
• Extensive experience in RMA consenting (minimum 8 years), with proven ability to lead complex applications.
• Experience attending Council and Environment Court hearings, providing expert evidence and mediation support.
• Experience in project management.
• Advanced problem-solving and decision-making capability with sound professional judgement.
• High analytical and strategic thinking.
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships and maintain a high level of professionalism.
• Highly articulate with excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex information clearly.

If you're a Senior Planner ready for your next opportunity, we'd love to hear from you. Send your CV and cover letter to ***email_hidden***. A position description is available on request.