Town Planner - Associate / Technical Director

Wood is a multidisciplinary environmental and engineering company and includes one of the UK’s largest development planning practices, with in-house master planners, landscape architects, highway engineers and environmental specialists. We provide a range of town planning services to public and private sector clients with an ever-expanding portfolio of projects centred on major urban extensions and garden communities comprising tens of thousands of new homes. This role presents the opportunity to make a difference at a strategic scale working with nationally recognised clients, including The Crown Estate, Defence Infrastructure Organisation, Duchy of Lancaster and Homes England, as well as a portfolio of major housebuilders.

To build on our successes, we are seeking an experienced town planner with a demonstrable track record of delivering work within the property sector for strategic landowners and/or developers to help develop and deliver our growing portfolio of property work.

Job Responsibilities:

• Have a key client-facing role leading out on the successful delivery of strategic mixed-use urban extensions, new settlements, and garden communities with high profile clients.
• Have a proven track record in managing key client accounts and winning new business.
• Secure new instructions for the planning team as well as cross-selling Wood’s in-house service.
• Work with other senior colleagues to prepare and lead the implementation of ambitious growth plans for our development planning business.
• Represent clients at local plan examinations and public inquiries, providing sound technical advice, and taking responsibility for the delivery of high-quality outputs.
• Keep abreast of emerging best practice, guidance, and legislative changes within town planning, to help raise our profile through speaking at events, networking and use of social media, and actively maintain your own CPD.
• Help manage and mentor junior staff.

Qualifications:

• You will be qualified to degree level in Town Planning and will be a full member of the RTPI.
• You will have significant experience, with a substantial part of that spent in the UK private consultancy environment, and of advising clients on successful planning strategies, preparing planning applications, leading appeals, and inquiries, negotiating s106 agreements, securing consents, site disposal, due diligence, and implementation.
• You will be technically confident and persuasive with excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• You will have experience in managing or directing complex planning applications (from small to large sized projects) and managing multi-disciplinary project teams working to tight deadlines and strictly defined budgets.
• You will have the ambition and ability to support the growth of our planning team.
• You will have a full UK drivers’ licence.

What is on offer?

Wood offers a competitive salary and benefits package and provides support to staff in developing their careers through structured professional development.

Company Overview:

Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people.

Diversity Statement:

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.