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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.
Your role:
We are looking for a Graduate Infrastructure Planner to be based in Cambridge, joining our 2025 Graduate Programme.
As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and fellow graduates, developing your town planning expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment. You will be working alongside your fellow graduates and collaborating with other Stantec teams. This role will equip you with technical knowledge in infrastructure planning, while also giving you an understanding of the broader services offered by Stantec.
You will be involved in various tasks, from planning assessments and managing pre-application processes to helping to promote development proposals. You'll also gain experience assisting with project coordination, research, site appraisals, and planning documents. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to policy representations, planning appeals, and network building within and outside the company. Clients include a broad range of finance-backed promoters and developers, utility companies and national operator, for which you'll be involved in renewable energy, battery storage, water storage and transfer, carbon capture and storage and low-carbon high tech food production (i.e. vertical farms).
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.
Take a look at our Infrastructure Planning business line:- Infrastructure Planning (stantec.com), and review the career journey of one of our 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:-
- The Planner: Organising and managing your own activities, dealing effectively with multiple priorities with a structured approach.
- The Adapter: Able to remain calm in new situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
- The Thinker: Evaluating options by understanding context and risks, navigating ambiguity and putting forward your thoughts and ideas.
- The Striver: Exhibiting ownership, consistently delivering on tasks and objectives. You'll be motivated and proactive in your work, having the desire to make a real difference.
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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