Planning Associate

Stantec; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in planning consultancy is seeking a dedicated Planning Associate to join their Birmingham team. This role offers the chance to work on diverse projects ranging from residential to commercial developments. You will leverage your local knowledge and planning expertise to deliver high-quality advice and services to clients. The company fosters a supportive and inclusive culture, encouraging personal and professional growth. With a hybrid working model and a comprehensive benefits package, this is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual looking to make a significant impact in the planning sector.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Life assurance

Private health care

Flexi-benefits package

Opportunity to buy and sell holiday

Qualifications

• Chartered Town Planner with consultancy or private sector experience preferred.
• Local knowledge of the Midlands region is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Promote and coordinate planning applications for various developments.
• Conduct site appraisals and prepare Planning Statements.

Skills

Chartered Town Planning

Client Relationship Management

Project Management

Site Appraisals

Education

Chartered Town Planner qualification

Job description

Are you a chartered Town Planner at Associate level in the Birmingham/Midlands market wanting to play a key part in our ambitious growth strategy? Do you want to work for the leading planning consultancy team in Birmingham, joining one of the most sustainable companies in the world? If so, we would love to hear from you.

Our Birmingham Office is conveniently located within the heart of the city centre and has easy access to public transport, including being a short walk from New Street, Moor Street and Snow Hill Stations.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Planning Associate to join the team. You will work on a broad range of planning projects, using your local knowledge and national influence to plan and deliver projects of all types and scales. The team provides invaluable advice to their clients, and projects range from residential, mixed-use, commercial, industrial and employment through Development Plan promotion and planning applications and appeals.

You will be planning and delivering projects and developing both new and existing client relationships. You will join a supportive team environment with exciting career opportunities.

About you

You will be a chartered Town Planner ideally with some recent consultancy or private sector environment but local authority experience is also valuable. We are ideally seeking local knowledge of, and a track record of working in the Midlands region but we are open to relocators for the right person. Your role will include:

1. Promoting medium to large scale residential, mixed-use, commercial, industrial, employment and other developments (both brownfield and greenfield) through the Local Development Framework and then coordinating subsequent planning applications.
2. Conducting site appraisals.
3. Preparation, submission, and negotiation of planning applications of all sizes/types.
4. Preparation of Planning Statements.
5. Lodging appeals and potentially appearing at Informal Hearings.
6. Develop client relationships and conducting business development activity.
7. Co-ordination of internal and external project teams and project management of schemes.

We believe that it is our people and their individual talents that make us special. We work within a friendly, inclusive, and supportive culture and one of high support and high challenge, where we are not afraid to take on new and greater responsibilities and are each individually encouraged to grow and flourish both personally and professionally, with genuine career opportunities based on merit. We create a working environment that offers flexibility, adopting a hybrid approach to agile working and offer a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, private health care and a flexi-benefits package allowing you to choose benefits that are truly valuable to you, including the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.

For more information please contact Ruth Hoggett (Talent Acquisition Manager).