Senior Public Transport Planner
We are looking for a professional, customer focussed Senior Public Transport Planner to join the Metlink Service Design team in our central Wellington office on Cuba Street.
This is a full-time, fixed term role until September 2026, covering parental leave.
**About the role:**
Reporting to the Manager Service Design, the Senior Public Transport Planner will provide advice and guidance to the Service Design team and manage a complex portfolio of bus and ferry services. This will involve working with external business partners, transport operators and communities.
You will provide analytical knowledge around urban and city planning, act as a Service Design contact point for the business and assist in managing relationships between internal clients and external business partners.
Key to your role will be monitoring and analysing data trends in public transport service performance, travel time and patronage at a network and service level to help tell a story that will lead to the design of a better and improved service.
**Skills and experience required:**
We are looking for someone who is customer focused professional who can take the initiative.
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Highly capable analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Data analysis experience.
- Experience working with data and service design documentation using software applications.
- Attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- The ability to build positive relationships with a wide range of stake holders and customers.
- Work to suit your life and whanau with our flexible working policy.
- We'll encourage you to grow and prosper with a range of learning and development opportunities, internal secondments and career progression.
- Your wellbeing is our priority - we'll provide medical and trauma insurance, support through our employee assistance programme or Manawa Ora providers, generous annual and sick leave, along with Tangihanga leave and support.
- We want you to have a sense of belonging, where you can reflect your personal and cultural identity in the way that you work.
- Social clubs, staff networks and a friendly and inclusive culture.
- Great working environment.
**Come help treasure and grow our rohe together**
Our rohe and its lands, waterways, animals, plants and people can only grow stronger if they are nurtured.
To join our team is to step up and commit to playing an active part in this important mahi. That means restoring nature, connecting people and places, reducing environmental impacts, and helping this rohe and its people prosper.
We are committed to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and support mana whenua as Kaitiaki. We're also part of a collective movement alongside our community members whose hopes for the future of this region are just as high as your own.
Our efforts across environmental management, public transport, flood protection, regional parks and water supply are interconnected and integral to treasuring our rohe and growing our future.
**How to apply:**
Greater Wellington is proud to be a member of Diversity Works. We value diversity and are committed to an inclusive, flexible, and supportive workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and welcome the unique talent and experience you will bring to our team.
We are passionate about ensuring our recruitment processes are fair and equitable. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs or adjustments that need to be made so we can offer a recruitment process that is more accessible to you.
Click on the Apply link to view the job description and to apply for the role with a cover letter and CV. *All applicants will be required to provide proof of their eligibility to work in New Zealand.*
For further information, please contact Rob Braddock at rob.braddock@gw.govt.nz ****
**Applications close:** 5.00pm, Thursday 14 th August 2025 **.**
The remuneration for this position, inclusive of all benefits, is $87,079 to $130,619, with a midpoint of $108,849. Starting remuneration will depend on the skills and experience of the successful applicant.