Sydney
Change up your nine to five and join our team of innovative strategists, planners & thinkers
Mecone is a leading urban planning firm
with offices in Sydney CBD, Western Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne.
We specialise in urban planning, plantech, and policy and analytics helping our clients to navigate statutory and strategic planning processes across all sectors. The scope of our projects is diverse – from reimagining entire urban environments to facilitating the development of private residences. Through all our projects we are committed to the creation of urban spaces and dwellings that uniquely and wholly serve the communities and environment of present and future Australia.
As a team we share a mutual commitment for innovation, exploration and collaboration, and a motivation to create viable, sustainable and desirable solutions for our clients, and facilitate the development of thriving urban and regional spaces.
SUPPORTING YOUR CAREER
Our diverse team is our best asset. We make it our mission to foster the growth and development of our people.
We offer a pathways program for competency + professional skill development
A lifelong workplace learning philosophy
Mentoring from the industries brightest minds
We support your professional development
REWARDS & RECOGNITION
Your skills and expertise are the foundations of Mecone’s success and growth. We back our gratitude with rewards and recognition to ensure you are reaping the benefits of your hard work.
We offer employee performance bonuses
Employee referral bonuses
Monthly and annual employee awards
Floating public holidays
Paid birthday leave
Paid parental leave
We’re looking for agile, creative, innovative and curious individuals who are committed to the creation of better urban environments that uniquely meet the needs of our clients and the environment.
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National Offices
55+
Employees
1,000+
Clients
Current Positions
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Planner – Brisbane Planning Team
Location
Brisbane
Job Type
Full-Time
Would you like a flexible work environment with a supportive team? The opportunity of career progression? Access to experienced urban planning mentorship? Mecone are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Planner to join our team on a permanent basis in our Brisbane office.
Who is Mecone?
At Mecone, we are committed to creating better urban environments. Above all, we value our people and pride ourselves in the calibre of our employees to deliver superior client outcomes, while fostering an inclusive and diverse culture for our team.
As urban planning specialists, we provide advice and services in strategic planning, statutory planning, integrated land use, transport planning, and urban analytics.
Working with us offers enormous benefits – and not just our generous parental leave policy for both primary & secondary carers, work life balance, health & wellbeing programs, rewards recognition and bonus scheme!
Mecone offers the opportunity to be truly valued as an employee in a close-knit team. You will also enjoy interesting and challenging work across metro Sydney with a focus on large-scale transformational projects and being mentored by the best in the business.
About the role
Supported by knowledgeable and experienced Directors, this role is focused on providing urban planning services in one or more of the following key areas:
- Statutory planning and development advisory
- Strategic planning, rezonings and development advisory
- Due diligence assessments & masterplans
For more information, please email info@mecone.com.au
Applications close
13 April 2025
Responsibilities
- Employ a thorough understanding of statutory, strategic, and land use planning principles at a strategic and technical level to provide practical and expert planning advice to clients and the project team
- Provide high-quality deliverables across all three business areas including but not limited to Planning Proposals, Statement of Environmental Effects, Strategic Planning Reports, Clause 4.6 Variations
- Maintain direct contact with senior government agency staff
- Prepare, or manage, the preparation of high-quality planning reports
- Represent Mecone as a key team leader at client workshops/meetings and provide advice on planning matters
- Maintain direct and independent contact with senior government agency staff (Council, DPE etc)
- Prepare fee proposals and tender responses
- GIS analysis, mapping, and graphic design (desirable)
- Ability to manage and progress projects with minimal oversight, including direct contact with client PMs
- Management and prioritisation of competing deadlines, alerting Directors where capacity issues are foreseeable
- Awareness of planning trends and ability to identify further work opportunities from these for existing jobs and clients
- Contribute to the development of innovative analytical tools or digital products (desirable)
Skills
- Degree qualified in a relevant discipline.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- 2 – 4 years’ experience with ambition to become a senior planner and grow to become a future leader
- QLD experience essential – NSW experience is an added bonus.
- Confidence in decision making and ability to work independently
- Ability to astutely apply and articulate relevant statutory planning issues
- Able to prioritise the competing demands of multiple projects within the agreed timeframe.
- Strong capability in written and verbal communications and engagement with a variety of stakeholders.
- Commitment to workplace flexibility, diversity, equality and environmental sustainability
- Australian citizen or appropriate work visa
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, commensurate with qualifications and experience
- Annual performance bonus
- Flexible working arrangements
- A vibrant, supportive office environment with mentoring opportunities and ability to progress your career within the company
- Professional development allowance
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Senior Planner – Brisbane Planning Team
Location
Brisbane
Job Type
Full-Time
Would you like a flexible work environment with a supportive team? The opportunity of career progression? Access to experienced urban planning mentorship? Mecone are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Planner to join our team on a permanent basis in our Brisbane office.
Who is Mecone?
At Mecone, we are committed to creating better urban environments. Above all, we value our people and pride ourselves in the calibre of our employees to deliver superior client outcomes, while fostering an inclusive and diverse culture for our team.
As urban planning specialists, we provide advice and services in strategic planning, statutory planning, integrated land use, transport planning, and urban analytics.
Working with us offers enormous benefits – and not just our generous parental leave policy for both primary & secondary carers, work life balance, health & wellbeing programs, rewards recognition and bonus scheme!
Mecone offers the opportunity to be truly valued as an employee in a close-knit team. You will also enjoy interesting and challenging work across metro Sydney with a focus on large-scale transformational projects and being mentored by the best in the business.
About the role
Supported by knowledgeable and experienced Directors, this role is focused on providing urban planning services in one or more of the following key areas:
- Statutory planning and development advisory
- Strategic planning, rezonings and development advisory
- Due diligence assessments & masterplans
For more information, please email info@mecone.com.au
Applications close
13 April 2025
Responsibilities
- Employ a thorough understanding of statutory, strategic, and land use planning principles at a strategic and technical level to provide practical and expert planning advice to clients and the project team
- Provide high-quality deliverables across all three business areas including but not limited to Planning Proposals, Statement of Environmental Effects, Strategic Planning Reports, Clause 4.6 Variations
- Maintain direct contact with senior government agency staff
- Prepare, or manage, the preparation of high-quality planning reports
- Represent Mecone as a key team leader at client workshops/meetings and provide advice on planning matters
- Maintain direct and independent contact with senior government agency staff (Council, DPE etc)
- Prepare fee proposals and tender responses
- GIS analysis, mapping, and graphic design (desirable)
- Ability to manage and progress projects with minimal oversight, including direct contact with client PMs
- Management and prioritisation of competing deadlines, alerting Directors where capacity issues are foreseeable
- Awareness of planning trends and ability to identify further work opportunities from these for existing jobs and clients
- Contribute to the development of innovative analytical tools or digital products (desirable)
Skills
- Degree qualified in a relevant discipline.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Minimum 4 years’ experience preferably including work in both private and public planning roles
- Confidence in decision making and ability to work independently
- Ability to astutely apply and articulate relevant statutory planning issues
- Able to prioritise the competing demands of multiple projects within the agreed timeframe.
- Strong capability in written and verbal communications and engagement with a variety of stakeholders.
- Commitment to workplace flexibility, diversity, equality and environmental sustainability
- Australian citizen or appropriate work visa
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, commensurate with qualifications and experience
- Annual performance bonus
- Flexible working arrangements
- A vibrant, supportive office environment with mentoring opportunities and ability to progress your career within the company
- Professional development allowance
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Associate & Associate Director (Policy & Urban Analytics)
Location
Sydney
Job Type
Full-Time
Would you like a flexible work environment with a supportive team? The opportunity of career progression within a national planning firm? Access to experienced urban planning mentorship? With continued growth across our business, we are looking to appoint a talented and energetic Associate and Associate Director in our Policy and Urban Analytics Team. While the work will primarily be NSW focused, from our Sydney CBD or Parramatta office, for a suitable candidate there would be an opportunity for interstate applicants to work out of our Brisbane or Melbourne offices.
Who is Mecone?
At Mecone, we are committed to creating better urban environments. Above all, we value our people and pride ourselves in the calibre of our employees to deliver superior client outcomes, while fostering an inclusive and diverse culture for our team.
As urban planning specialists, we provide advice and services in strategic planning, statutory planning, integrated land use, social planning, environmental planning, urban analytics and planning tech.
Working with us offers enormous benefits – and not just our rewards recognition and generous bonus scheme! Mecone offers the opportunity to be truly valued as an employee in a close-nit team. You will enjoy interesting and challenging work across metro Sydney and regional NSW with a focus on large-scale transformational projects and being mentored by the best in the business. There will also be opportunities to work with our Melbourne and Brisbane teams on projects located outside of NSW.
About the role
You will:
- Deliver social impact assessments for a range of development applications, including under the NSW SIA Guideline for State Significant Projects
- Analyse community infrastructure needs to support both private and public sector planning processes
- Create persuasive and engaging communications materials
- With direction and support from the social planning lead, craft and deliver community and stakeholder engagement programs for a wide range of projects
- Undertake social research on key issues facing our cities, including on the topics of housing, homelessness, regional development, and social inclusion
- Extract and analyse demographic data for a range of project geographies.
You will be closely supported by our social planning and policy team leaders and work on a variety of projects across the business.
About you
You’re a high-performing, driven individual who can demonstrate experience and aptitude in assessing social impacts, understanding stakeholder landscapes, and facilitating meaningful and effective engagement programs for a variety of strategic projects.
For more information, please email info@mecone.com.au
Applications close
13 January 2025
Responsibilities
- Employ a thorough understanding of social planning principles at a strategic and technical level to provide practical and expert planning advice to clients and the project team
- Prepare, or manage, the preparation of high-quality reports and deliverables including but not limited to social impact assessments, community infrastructure needs analysis, engagement planning and outcomes reporting, research and expert advice
- Interact with technical professionals, the project team, and other stakeholders within multi-disciplinary planning projects
- Ensure deadlines and project objectives are being achieved and meet company, client, and quality standards
- Represent Mecone at client workshops/meetings and provide advice on social planning matters
- Maintain direct and independent contact with senior government agency staff to progress engagement programs.
- Ability to manage and progress projects with minimal oversight, including direct contact with client PMs
- Awareness and tracking of project budgets and prepare monthly project invoices for review by Directors
- Management and prioritisation of competing deadlines, alerting Directors where capacity issues are foreseeable
- As required, manage team members to ensure deliverables are provided on time and within budget to client’s satisfaction.
- As required, manage subconsultants and ensure their deliverables are meeting deadlines and project objectives.
- Prepare fee proposals and tender responses
- Maintain awareness of social trends and ability to identify further work opportunities from these for existing jobs and clients
- Identify business development opportunities and utilise your networks to facilitate business growth
- As required, actively seek and source new business opportunities including arranging marketing meetings with potential or new clients
- As required, promote the Mecone brand in business functions and professional events.
Skills
- Degree qualified in relevant discipline
- Knowledge of the NSW planning framework and social policy environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated researching and data (quantitative and qualitative) analysis skills
- Minimum 2-5 years’ experience
- Confidence in decision making and ability to work independently
- Australian citizen or appropriate work visa
- Commitment to workplace flexibility, diversity, equality and environmental sustainability
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, commensurate with qualifications and experience Professional development allowance
- Annual performance bonus
- Flexible working arrangements
- A vibrant, supportive office environment with mentoring opportunities and ability to progress your career within the company
- Professional development allowance
- Professional development allowance
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Associate
Location
Sydney
Job Type
Full-Time
Mecone is looking for experienced and highly motivated Associates to join our team. We have opportunities available in both our Sydney CBD and Parramatta offices, as part of our Sydney Planning and Western Sydney Planning teams. These are permanent positions offering the chance to contribute to exciting projects and make a meaningful impact.
Would you like a flexible work environment with a supportive team? The opportunity of career progression within a national planning firm? Access to experienced urban planning mentorship?
Who is Mecone?
At Mecone, we are committed to creating better urban environments. Above all, we value our people and pride ourselves in the caliber of our employees to deliver superior client outcomes, while fostering an inclusive and diverse culture for our team.
As urban planning specialists, we provide advice and services in strategic planning, statutory planning, integrated land use, social planning, transport planning, urban analytics and planning tech.
Working with us offers enormous benefits – and not just our rewards recognition and generous bonus scheme! Mecone offers the opportunity to be truly valued as an employee in a close-nit team. You will enjoy interesting and challenging work across metro Sydney and regional NSW with a focus on large-scale transformational projects and being mentored by the best in the business.
About the role
Supported by knowledgeable and experienced Directors, this role is focused on providing urban planning services in one or more of the following key areas:
· Statutory planning, due diligence assessment and development advisory
· Planning proposals and strategic planning advisory.
Applications close
13 April 2025
Responsibilities
- Employ a thorough understanding of statutory, strategic, and land use planning principles at a strategic and technical level to provide practical and expert planning advice to clients and the project team
- Prepare, or manage, the preparation of high-quality planning reports and deliverables including but not limited to statement of environmental effects, environmental impact statements, Clause 4.6 variations, planning proposals, precinct/master plans, strategic planning reports, and expert advice and reports for the Land and Environment Court
- Interact with technical professionals, the project team, and other stakeholders within multi-disciplinary planning projects
- Ensure deadlines and project objectives are being achieved and meet company, client, and quality standards
- Act as an expert witness in the Land and Environment Court
- Represent Mecone as a key team leader at client workshops/meetings and provide advice on planning matters
- Ability to manage and progress projects with minimal oversight, including direct contact with client PMs
- Awareness and tracking of project budgets and prepare monthly project invoices for review by Directors
- Management and prioritisation of competing deadlines, alerting Directors where capacity issues are foreseeable
- Provide guidance to junior staff
- As required, manage team members to ensure deliverables are provided on time and within budget to client’s satisfaction.
- As required, manage subconsultants and ensure their deliverables are meeting deadlines and project objectives.
- Prepare fee proposals and tender responses
- Maintain awareness of planning trends and ability to identify further work opportunities from these for existing jobs and clients
- Identify business development opportunities and utilise your networks to facilitate business growth
- As required, actively seek and source new business opportunities including arranging marketing meetings with potential or new clients
- As required, promote the Mecone brand in business functions and professional events.
Skills
- Degree qualified in a relevant discipline.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Minimum 6-8 years experience, preferably including work in both private and public planning roles
- Confidence in decision making and ability to work independently
- Ability to astutely apply and articulate relevant statutory planning issues
- Commitment to workplace flexibility, diversity, equality and environmental sustainability
- Australian citizen or appropriate work visa
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, commensurate with qualifications and experience
- Annual performance bonus
- Flexible working arrangements
- A vibrant, supportive office environment with mentoring opportunities and ability to progress your career within the company
- Professional development allowance
-
Senior Planner
Location
Sydney
Job Type
Full-Time
Mecone is looking for experienced and highly motivated Senior Planners to join our team. We have opportunities available in both our Sydney CBD and Parramatta offices, as part of our Sydney Planning and Western Sydney Planning teams. These are permanent positions offering the chance to contribute to exciting projects and make a meaningful impact.
The Opportunity:
Would you like a flexible work environment with a supportive team? The opportunity of career progression? Access to experienced urban planning mentorship?
Who is Mecone?
At Mecone, we are committed to creating better urban environments. Above all, we value our people and pride ourselves in the calibre of our employees to deliver superior client outcomes, while fostering an inclusive and diverse culture for our team.
As urban planning specialists, we provide advice and services in strategic planning, statutory planning, integrated land use, transport planning, and urban analytics.
Working with us offers enormous benefits – and not just our generous parental leave policy for both primary & secondary carers, work life balance, health & wellbeing programs, rewards recognition and bonus scheme!
Mecone offers the opportunity to be truly valued as an employee in a close-knit team. You will also enjoy interesting and challenging work across metro Sydney with a focus on large-scale transformational projects and being mentored by the best in the business.
About the role
Supported by knowledgeable and experienced Directors, this role is focused on providing urban planning services in one or more of the following key areas:
- Statutory planning and development advisory
- Strategic planning, rezonings and development advisory
- Due diligence assessments & masterplans
About you
You’re a high-performing driven individual who can demonstrate solid statutory and strategic urban planning knowledge while providing, attentive, professional service to our valued clients.
Your skills & experience
- Degree qualified in relevant discipline
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Minimum 4 years’ experience, preferably including work in both private and public planning roles
- Confidence in decision making and ability to work independently
- Ability to astutely apply and articulate relevant statutory planning issues
- Able to prioritise the competing demands of multiple projects within the agreed timeframe.
- Strong capability in written and verbal communications and engagement with a variety of stakeholders.
- Australian citizen or appropriate work visa
- Commitment to workplace flexibility, diversity, equality and environmental sustainability
Your key responsibilities:
Consultancy Services
- Employ a thorough understanding of statutory, strategic, and land use planning principles at a strategic and technical level to provide practical and expert planning advice to clients and the project team
- Provide high-quality deliverables across all three business areas including but not limited to Planning Proposals, Statement of Environmental Effects, Strategic Planning Reports, Clause 4.6 Variations
- Prepare, or manage, the preparation of high-quality planning reports
- Maintain direct contact with senior government agency staff
- Represent Mecone as a key team leader at client workshops/meetings and provide advice on planning matters
- GIS analysis, mapping, and graphic design (desirable)
- Maintain direct and independent contact with senior government agency staff (Council, DPE etc) to progress planning applications
Project and Team Management
- Ability to manage and progress projects with minimal oversight, including direct contact with client PMs
- Awareness and tracking of project budgets
- Management and prioritisation of competing deadlines, alerting Directors where capacity issues are foreseeable
- Prepare monthly project invoices for review by Directors
Marketing and Business Development
- Prepare fee proposals and tender responses
- Awareness of planning trends and ability to identify further work opportunities from these for existing jobs and clients
- Contribute to the development of innovative analytical tools or digital products (desirable)
Applications close
13 April 2025
Responsibilities
- Employ a thorough understanding of statutory, strategic, and land use planning principles at a strategic and technical level to provide practical and expert planning advice to clients and the project team
- Provide high-quality deliverables across all three business areas including but not limited to Planning Proposals, Statement of Environmental Effects, Strategic Planning Reports, Clause 4.6 Variations
- Maintain direct contact with senior government agency staff
- Prepare, or manage, the preparation of high-quality planning reports
- Represent Mecone as a key team leader at client workshops/meetings and provide advice on planning matters
- Maintain direct and independent contact with senior government agency staff (Council, DPE etc)
- Awareness and tracking of project budgets
- Prepare monthly project invoices for review by directors
- Prepare fee proposals and tender responses
- GIS analysis, mapping, and graphic design (desirable)
- Ability to manage and progress projects with minimal oversight, including direct contact with client PMs
- Management and prioritisation of competing deadlines, alerting Directors where capacity issues are foreseeable
- Awareness of planning trends and ability to identify further work opportunities from these for existing jobs and clients
- Contribute to the development of innovative analytical tools or digital products (desirable)
Skills
- Degree qualified in a relevant discipline.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Minimum 4 years’ experience preferably including work in both private and public planning roles
- Confidence in decision making and ability to work independently
- Ability to astutely apply and articulate relevant statutory planning issues
- Able to prioritise the competing demands of multiple projects within the agreed timeframe.
- Strong capability in written and verbal communications and engagement with a variety of stakeholders.
- Commitment to workplace flexibility, diversity, equality and environmental sustainability
- Australian citizen or appropriate work visa
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, commensurate with qualifications and experience
- Annual performance bonus
- Flexible working arrangements
- A vibrant, supportive office environment with mentoring opportunities and ability to progress your career within the company
- Professional development allowance
If you’re having trouble uploading your information or you’d prefer to get in touch via email, we welcome these submissions. They will be considered with equal weight to applications submitted here.
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MORE THAN WORK
Our social initiatives are vested in making work feel less like work, and more like a collective group of people who share the same fascination and joy for building thriving communities and places.
We provide social, environmental and community activities
A culture club
Team building and staff events
Sustainable work practices
Paid volunteer leave
Wellbeing support and health allowances
Flexible work options with select team in-office anchor days