At a Glance
- Tasks: Contribute to impactful infrastructure projects and engage with clients and communities.
- Company: Join AECOM, a global leader in infrastructure consulting.
- Benefits: Flexible working, career development, mentorship, and volunteering opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic team environment with excellent growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a real difference while kickstarting your career in town planning.
- Qualifications: Recent graduates or students in planning or related fields.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
Our Belfast-based Planning and Stakeholder Engagement team deliver projects across Northern Ireland, Ireland and the UK. We have a fantastic graduate opportunity available with an immediate start date.
AECOM's Planning & Stakeholder Engagement team are involved in delivering some of the largest, most complex and high-profile infrastructure schemes and development and regeneration projects across the UK & Ireland, supporting both public and private sector clients. We are a dynamic team that works closely with colleagues across a broad range of complementary disciplines, including masterplanning, architecture, civil engineering, transportation, landscape architecture, environmental impact assessment (EIA), ecology, heritage, and project management.
As a Graduate Town Planner at AECOM, you will have the opportunity to contribute to a diverse range of projects, primarily across Ireland and Northern Ireland. Our team is actively involved in key market sectors including energy, data centres, water defence and transportation, providing exposure to impactful infrastructure and development projects from day one. You will also have the opportunity to support major infrastructure projects in the UK, including Development Consent Order (DCO) applications, offering valuable experience on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
Here's what you'll do:
- Provide technical inputs to land use planning projects, working within multi-disciplinary teams of planners, environmental specialists, landscape architects and engineers to deliver a diverse range of multi-disciplinary projects including land development, infrastructure planning, policy planning and strategic development planning projects.
- Support the preparation and coordination of planning applications across a range of projects, including infrastructure, large scale residential, leisure and mixed-use developments.
- Carry out planning research and due diligence analysis to assist with the identification of planning risk and opportunities.
- Support others in the team to identify and pursue business development opportunities and support the growth of the business through new and repeat clients.
- Contribute to proposals and qualification documents to secure new commissions.
- Represent the organisation professionally, developing and managing relationships with clients, local authorities and other stakeholders through project work and attendance at conferences and other networking events.
- Participate in the successful operation of the town planning team, including sharing technical knowledge and promoting best practice.
- Support stakeholder engagement and consultation activities associated with planning and infrastructure projects, including preparing consultation materials, assisting with stakeholder mapping and helping to coordinate engagement events where required.
- Assist the management team as required.
At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.
Our 2-year graduate ADVANCE programme is designed to help you build your career in AECOM. You will attend several instructor-led training sessions where you will meet and hear from people across the business and take part in a series of interactive activities to equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in your role. Alongside the instructor-led elements of the ADVANCE programme, you will also engage with an online curriculum via AECOM University and can join the ADVANCE webinar series.
We will actively support you in progressing towards becoming a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and/or the Irish Planning Institute (IPI), providing the guidance, experience and professional development opportunities needed to achieve accreditation.
Environmental Graduate Town Planner -Belfast - Start October - December 26 employer: AECOM
At AECOM, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment that fosters innovation and collaboration. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through our extensive career development opportunities, flexible hybrid working model, and a culture that values diversity and inclusion. Join us in the South East, where you can make a meaningful impact on transport planning while enjoying a range of personalised benefits tailored to support your well-being and professional aspirations.
