Remote Senior Town Planner in Exeter

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.

Due to significant infrastructure planning wins and new opportunities, we are looking to hire a Senior Town Planner. You will be joining a great team; you will have an interesting and diverse workload and you will be given the opportunity to make the most of your abilities. Based from our Birmingham, Cardiff or Manchester offices, with an option for hybrid working.

You will be joining a market leading, experienced infrastructure planning team and will have the following responsibilities:

• Project Coordination and Delivery: Assisting in the successful delivery of major development applications and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams across various project types. Assisting with project management and implementing quality and health and safety principles.
• Planning Advice and Strategy: Providing planning advice to colleagues and clients on planning consent requirements and the application of permitted development rights. Carrying out planning research and analysis and assisting with planning feasibility reports and consent strategies.
• Documentation and Application Management: Writing Planning Statements and Design and Access Statements for development applications. Leading, submitting, and managing planning applications, including liaison and negotiation with local planning authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement: Working closely with the Environmental Impact Assessment team. Participating in internal and external meetings.
• Research, Business Development, and Project Management: Contribution to the preparation of successful commercial tenders. Carrying out planning research and analysis and assisting with planning feasibility reports and consent strategies.

AECOM’s rapidly growing Town Planning team plays a key role in delivering major infrastructure and development projects. AECOM is a top ten UK planning consultancy by size, employing more than 70 Chartered or Licentiate Planners. Working as a planning consultant within AECOM means access to some of the highest profile and prestigious development projects in the UK, collaborating with top-tier planners, impact assessment specialists and project managers.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Sound knowledge of English planning policy and legislation
• Demonstrable and relevant experience of working on planning applications
• Client focus, with good interpersonal skills and collaborative working approach
• High level of commitment to quality
• Commercial awareness
• Ability to write clearly and concisely
• Ability to work on your own initiative and under pressure

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.