# Network Planning Specialist

**Company**: Telstra
**Location**: Australia (Flexible)
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Network Planning Specialist, you will help shape the future of Telstra's transport network by developing infrastructure plans, assessing network capacity and performance, and supporting strategic investment decisions.

You will work across a complex technology environment to deliver cost-effective, reliable, and compliant network outcomes while contributing to the Reduce30 transformation objectives.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead planning and design activities supporting SDH/PDH decommissioning and network migration initiatives.

- Analyse network demand, capacity, performance, and risk to drive planning decisions and investment recommendations.

- Develop infrastructure plans, technology roadmaps, and deployment strategies.

- Support the migration of legacy transport network services to modern platforms and technologies.

- Collaborate with planners, designers, engineers, and stakeholders to deliver transformational and business-as-usual network outcomes.

- Ensure planning solutions meet technical, regulatory, quality, and commercial requirements.

**What We're Looking For**

- Strong transport and capacity planning expertise.

- Advanced knowledge of SDH, PDH, and DWDM technologies.

- Experience in network transformation, migration, and decommissioning programs.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with a focus on cost-effective planning outcomes.

- Effective stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

- A continuous learning mindset and passion for improving planning practices.

**Desirable Experience**

- Knowledge of Telstra transport network environments, tools, and databases.

- Experience with TPD, PlanNet, iDEAL, or Qlik Sense.

- Exposure to Python, SQL, data modelling, or network modelling tools.

**Qualifications**

- Degree in Engineering or equivalent industry experience.

- Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience.

**Benefits**

- Performance-related pay

- Access to thousands of learning programs

- Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business

- Purchased annual leave scheme

- Additional Telstra day off

- Additional 30% off Telstra products and services

- Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)

## Skills

### Required
- transport planning
- capacity planning
- SDH
- PDH
- DWDM
- network transformation
- migration
- decommissioning
- analytical skills
- problem-solving
- stakeholder engagement
- communication

### Nice to have
- TPD
- PlanNet
- iDEAL
- Qlik Sense
- Python
- SQL
- data modelling
- network modelling

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