Graduate Town Planner - Birmingham - 2026

Stantec Consulting International Ltd.; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Birmingham is seeking a Graduate Town Planner to join their 2025 Graduate Programme. You'll work on diverse projects, ensuring smooth project coordination and management. Ideal candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree in Town Planning or Geography and possess key skills like perseverance and collaboration. This role offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional growth and competitive benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Private medical insurance

Holiday buy and sell options

Permanent contract

Professional progression plan

Collaborative team environment

Qualifications

• Possess a Bachelor’s degree in Town Planning or Geography.
• Demonstrate perseverance in challenging situations.
• Show adaptability to new and changing tasks.
• Focus on priorities and minimize distractions.
• Collaborate well with others to achieve better outcomes.
• Display eagerness to learn from experiences.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development projects through thorough site research.
• Assist in preparing planning applications and statements.
• Manage planning appeals and oversee smaller projects.

Skills

Perseverance

Adaptability

Focus

Collaboration

Eagerness to learn

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Town Planning or Geography

Job description

With every community, Stantec redefines what’s possible.

Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.

Your role:

We are looking for a Graduate Town Planner to be based in Birmingham , joining our 2025 Graduate Programme.

As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and wider cohort, developing your town planning expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment. You will contribute to a broad range of projects, from initial research and site appraisals to application preparation, community engagement, plan promotion, and planning appeals in the residential, commercial, industrial and mixed-use sectors. You will also assist with project coordination and management, ensuring projects run smoothly.

Our dynamic team is based right in the heart of Birmingham city centre, with easy access to New Street, Moor Street, and Snow Hill stations. As a graduate, you will be working on everything from small-scale developments to large-scale regeneration schemes, assisting with the provision of expert planning advice to our clients. We offer a supportive environment with opportunities for professional development, including full APC support.

In this role, you will contribute to development projects through the Local Development Framework, conducting thorough site research and preparing compelling planning applications and statements. Your role will also involve managing planning appeals, building strong client relationships, and overseeing smaller projects while contributing to larger, complex schemes.

You will join a supportive and successful team with exciting career opportunities, have great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and exciting inter-disciplinary environment.

Take a look at our Town Planning business line:- Town Planning (stantec.com), and review the career journey of one of our Town Planners:- My Stantec Story: Building a career in planning with Joseph Lynch

About you:

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with your Bachelor’s degree in Town Planning or Geography, we’d love to receive your application if you are:-

• A Perseverer - You stay composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.

• An Adapter - You’re able to remain calm in new and changing situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.

• A Focused Individual - You focus on what matters, tuning out distractions to perform effectively in any situation.

• A Collaborator - You work effectively with lots of different people, considering others’ perspectives to shape better outcomes.

• An Eager Learner - You learn from your experiences and the world around you, using this knowledge to anticipate how situations may unfold.

Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support.

What we can offer you:

• A competitive salary

• Private medical insurance

• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance

• Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec

• Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership

• A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)

Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.

Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs ( Graduate Application FAQs ) if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!

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About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 32,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.

At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.

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