Town Planning | Expression of Interest

Are you an experienced Town Planner looking for your next opportunity with an established and growing team? Do you want to work on a diverse range of exciting projects, shape the future of places and communities, and have access to fantastic career development opportunities? If so, Stantec could be for you.

We're continuing to grow our Town Planning teams across the UK and are keen to connect with talented planning professionals at a range of levels, from Planner and Senior Planner through to Associate, Associate Director and Director level.

Our Planning teams are based across Bristol, Taunton, Cardiff, Birmingham, Reading, Kings Hill, London, Cambridge, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Glasgow, offering opportunities to work on projects at a local, regional and national scale.

Explore more about our Town Planning projects and expertise here.

We're looking for passionate and commercially aware Town Planners who want to make a positive impact through their work and develop their careers within a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.

• Chartered MRTPI status or working towards chartership.
• Proven planning experience within a consultancy, private sector or public sector environment.
• Preparing, submitting and negotiating planning applications across a variety of scales and project types.
• Experience across residential, mixed-use, strategic, commercial and/or energy projects.
• Coordinating internal and external project teams and ensuring high-quality project delivery.
• Building and maintaining strong client relationships and providing commercially focused planning advice.
• For more senior roles, experience of planning appeals and appearing at informal hearings is advantageous.
• Local knowledge and experience of working within the region you're interested in joining is beneficial, although relocators are very welcome to apply.
• A full UK driving licence and access to a car would be advantageous for some roles.
• If your experience doesn't tick every box, we still encourage you to apply we hire people, not checklists.

Great talent doesn't always wait for the perfect vacancy, and neither do we. We're always looking to connect with talented planning professionals and build our pipeline for future opportunities.

Whether you're looking for your next role now or simply want to explore what a future with Stantec could look like, we'd love to hear from you.

• We put people first: We're proud of our friendly, inclusive and collaborative environment where everyone feels valued and driven to succeed.
• We are driven to achieve: Named in the top 50 companies to work by Glassdoor 2025. Recognised by Corporate Knights as one of the world's top 10 most sustainable companies 2025. Named 'Best Place to Work' and 'International Consulting Firm of the Year' at the NCE Awards 2024.
• We do what is right: Industry leading training and development as well as paid for professional subscriptions. A professional progression plan, supporting you to become chartered with ICE.
• We are better together: 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)
• Growth: We're on an exciting growth journey across the UK & Ireland - we want you to be part of it!
• Great Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus schemes, enhanced pension plan, annual leave with the option to buy/sell additional days, private medical insurance, group income protection & life assurance included as standard as well as discounted gym membership and lots more.
• Flexible working: Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with our hybrid approach to flexible working.

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