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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 Town Planner to be based in Manchester, 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 be based in our Manchester city centre office, part of our wider award-winning Northern planning team. You will gain client facing experience from an early stage and benefit from outstanding professional development opportunities within an innovative and exciting multi-disciplinary community.
As a Graduate Planner, you will develop your planning knowledge and skills by supporting the wider team on a range of projects. You will build close working relationships with a variety of clients including local authorities, property developers and private landowners.
Assisting with a broad variety of projects, your duties could include:
- Appraising sites to determine their suitability for proposed development schemes.
- Assisting in the preparation and submission of planning applications and monitoring the progress of applications post-submission.
- Liaising with and seeking advice from other technical disciplines such as transport, acoustics, and ecology.
- Demonstrating that a proposed development is policy compliant / researching whether a proposal could benefit from permitted development rights.
- Working on evidence-based projects such as retail and leisure studies.
- Developing strategies for securing planning permission and drafting advice notes for clients.
- Undertaking site assessments as part of Strategic Housing and Employment Land Availability Assessments and Sequential Assessments.
- Assisting colleagues with planning enquiries from other technical disciplines.
You will join a supportive and successful team with exciting career opportunities, have great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and exciting inter-disciplinary environment.
Take a look at our Town Planning business line:- Town Planning (stantec.com), and review the career journey of one of our Town 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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