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Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.
We are looking for a Graduate Town Planner to be based in Leeds, 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 and environmental sectors. You will also assist with project coordination and management, ensuring projects run smoothly.
The Town Planning team principally focuses on residential-led developments across Leeds and wider Yorkshire, including new town settlements, garden villages, exciting regeneration projects, as well as mixed-use, industrial/commercial and retirement housing schemes. Developments range in size, use and complexity and include the preparation and submission of all types of planning applications, as well as Local Plan promotions.
You will join a supportive team with exciting career opportunities, have great client exposure and professional development, and work in an innovative and exciting multi-disciplinary environment.
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:
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.
Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.
The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 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 prohibits 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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