Town Planner Town Planning Officer in London

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.

With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We have an opportunity for a Principal Town Planner to work on a combination of infrastructure planning projects (in particular DCO projects) and residential/commercial/health/education projects across the UK. We have an impressive portfolio of involvement across all sectors including major infrastructure projects, including delivery of projects through various consenting regimes including DCOs. We are currently leading on planning applications for renewables and wider energy/electricity related infrastructure, transport, defence, water and much more. We are also working on planning applications in the health, education and leisure sectors across a range of scales.

You will be able to work on a range of prestigious projects across sectors, as well as a range of regional and local developments, including carbon capture and storage projects and large aviation and rail projects. We are passionate about delivering planning to support complex projects.

As our Town Planning team is national, and we support hybrid working, we are flexible in terms of base location. The role can be based from our offices in Basingstoke, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester, Nottingham and Plymouth, with an option for hybrid working.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Lead and assist in the delivery of major development applications.
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams across various project types.
• Submit and manage planning applications, including liaising and negotiating with local planning authorities and key stakeholders.
• Provide planning advice to colleagues and clients on consent requirements and permitted development rights.
• Produce planning feasibility reports and consent strategies.
• Write Planning Statements and Design and Access Statements for development applications.
• Lead and contribute to the preparation of successful commercial tenders.
• Oversee project management, ensuring quality and adherence to health and safety principles.

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. AECOM is also a worldwide leader in environmental and engineering consultancy and working as a planning consultant within AECOM means access to some of the highest profile and prestigious development projects in the UK, working with colleagues operating at the cutting edge of their disciplines as part of the largest UK environmental consultancy.

Become part of our Environment business, and collaborate with top-tier planners, impact assessment specialists and project managers to consent a variety of captivating projects, from local developments to major and national infrastructure, from developing planning strategies to obtaining consent and post consent work.

Education & Professional Memberships

• Degree in Town Planning or a related discipline.
• Membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) or an equivalent professional body.

Experience

• Significant relevant experience of leading applications for planning consent for large infrastructure projects across a range of consenting regimes.
• Existing relationships with clients and local authorities.

Quality & Commitment

• High level of commitment to quality.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours. We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.