Junior Consultant - Town Planning

Arcadis; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Junior Consultant in Town Planning to join their dynamic team in Cardiff. This role offers the chance to work on diverse projects that shape communities and protect the environment. You will support planning duties focusing on policy, strategy, and infrastructure, collaborating with clients to tackle complex challenges. With a commitment to sustainability and quality of life, this innovative firm empowers its employees to make a meaningful impact. Join a team where your contributions matter and help create a legacy of positive change.

Qualifications

• Experience in town planning, policy, and regeneration planning.
• Understanding socio economic and health impact assessments.

Responsibilities

• Provide planning advice and collaborate on masterplans and applications.
• Support client relationships and work-winning efforts.

Skills

Town Planning

Environmental Management

Policy Development

Sustainability Expertise

Socio Economic Assessment

Education

Relevant Degree

Masters in Accredited Planning Course

Job description

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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Our Planning team is growing, and we are looking for a Junior/Assistant Town Planner to support our growing team with a range of planning duties with a focus on policy, strategy, infrastructure consents and regeneration planning.

As part of our Environmental team, you’ll help improve quality of life. With your specialism in environmental management, or your technical or sustainability expertise, your work could involve protected species, pollution, surface water and materials management, air quality or noise. And in some of the world’s busiest and most beautiful locations.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

Our Team supports our clients with some of the UK’s most complex and diverse projects including Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, energy and infrastructure developments, residential and commercial schemes, socio economic, health and community planning as well as research into the planning process. Our clients include Highways England, Transport for London, Transport for Wales, HS2, National Grid, Homes England, the Environment Agency, Welsh Government, and the Canals & Rivers Trust together with a wide range of private developers, social landlords and local authorities.

At Arcadis, variety comes as standard. You’ll have the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects across our business. As part of your role as Junior/Assistant Town Planner you will:

• Help provide planning advise to clients and collaborate with multi-disciplinary project teams on masterplans, planning applications and regeneration strategies, policies or socio economic and health equalities impact assessment.
• Partnering with clients, you’ll build a deep understanding of the complex challenges they face, before applying your technical skills and expertise to deliver the best solutions.
• You will also have the opportunity to develop your potential in supporting client relationships and work-winning.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Town planning experience gained through policy, strategy, planning applications and consents and regeneration planning and delivery, dealing with masterplans and frameworks.
• Understanding of socio economic and health and equalities impact assessment for development and infrastructure projects.
• Experience of working on planning applications, particularly infrastructure consents.
• Experience of providing planning support on masterplans and impact assessment and working in matrix and dispersed teams
• A relevant degree and Masters in an accredited planning course and working towards chartership of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI).
• Understanding of the methods for working with internal and external stakeholders and appreciation of engaging with hard to reach groups and virtual public engagement.
  
  

We are looking to grow our team due to increased project demand and because we’re such a diverse business, we can offer you variety as standard. You’ll get to work on a range of different projects across the buildings sector, but also across specialist sectors such automotive, aviation and manufacturing.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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