At a Glance
- Tasks: Coordinate major development projects and provide planning advice to clients.
- Company: Join AECOM, a global leader in infrastructure consulting.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid working, competitive pay, and diverse benefits.
- Other info: Be part of a dynamic team with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on communities and the environment through innovative planning.
- Qualifications: Experience in planning applications and knowledge of UK planning policy required.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
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.
Due to significant infrastructure planning wins and new opportunities, we are looking to hire a Senior Town Planner. 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 be given 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. 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.
- 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. 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.
Sound knowledge of English planning policy and legislation. Demonstrable and relevant experience of working on planning applications. High level of commitment to quality. Commercial awareness.
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. You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
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.
