Heritage Planner/Senior Heritage Planner

Join Our Leading Heritage Team as a Heritage Planner (or Senior)!

Are you a talented and commercially minded Heritage Consultant looking for an exciting opportunity to work on prestigious projects? Join our specialist Heritage team, a recognised leader in the industry, covering both Built Heritage and Archaeology.

About the Role:

Based in our modern, collaborative offices in either Cambridge (near the train station) or Manchester city centre, you'll work alongside a wealth of other disciplines on diverse projects across the UK. Your work will involve providing specialist heritage advice (covering both built heritage and archaeology) for town centre regeneration, mixed-use developments, employment, education, strategic land, DCOs (Development Consent Orders), and more.

This is a unique opportunity to grow your profile in the Historic Environment space and contribute to the growth of our successful business. We are committed to engaging and developing your potential, rewarding contribution and performance, and providing outstanding professional development and career opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct historical and policy research.
• Identify historic environment constraints.
• Undertake heritage significance appraisals, impact assessments, and appeal statements.
• Prepare and submit listed building/scheduled monument consent applications.
• Prepare fee proposals and tender submissions.
• Develop client relationships.
• Support the Heritage team.

About You:

• Relevant degree and/or post-graduate qualification in historic environment conservation, architectural history, building conservation, archaeology, or similar.
• IHBC or CiFA membership (or eligibility).
• Private sector experience (preferred) or demonstrable adaptability.
• Commitment to continuing professional development.
• Sound knowledge of UK heritage planning policy, legislation, and best practice.
• Experience in appraising heritage significance and undertaking impact assessments.
• Experience with GIS systems and data processing (archaeology), such as LiDAR.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report writing.
• Interest in business development and networking.
• Personable, professional, motivated, ambitious, and driven.
• Excellent team-working skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to manage own time and workload.
• Proficiency with Microsoft packages.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel nationally.

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.

If you are a passionate and driven Heritage professional looking for a rewarding career, we encourage you to apply. Please contact Ruth Hoggett (Talent Acquisition Manager) for more information.

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 prohibit 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 want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all. If you need any support or require adjustments to be made then please contact careers.UK&[email protected]  and we will talk to you about how we can support you.