Senior / Principal Town Planner (Infrastructure

4 weeks ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom WSP Full time

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We are looking to recruit a Senior / Principal Town Planner, with a good understanding of the UK planning system, to help meet the needs of our clients and projects. Our growing Infrastructure Planning team are market leaders in securing consent for major infrastructure projects. We are supported by specialists in land referencing, environmental and stakeholder engagement. Our current clients include East West Rail, Eni UK, EDF Energy, National Grid, SSE, and Scottish Power Renewables, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, South West Water and many more.

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**Responsibilities**:

- Providing support and guidance to junior consultants and overseeing their work
- Organising and managing work in a professional and responsible manner, collaborating closely across multi-disciplinary planning, land and environmental teams
- Building good internal relationships through responsiveness and a commercial approach
- Project management with effective budgetary control.
- Desk studies, research, data management and report writing.
- Supporting commercial role such as time, fee and other cost estimates, bid preparation and where required presenting to tenderers.

**Qualifications**:

- Degree level qualification in town planning.
- Chartered status (MRTPI) or working towards chartership.
- Experience of delivering planning consents for infrastructure projects, working with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Sound knowledge and experience of the UK planning system, gained in either a local authority or private sector setting.

You will be well versed in the preparation of all planning documentation for infrastructure projects, engagement with key stakeholders including planning authorities and statutory consultees. The role requires a good grounding in statutory procedures applicable to the consenting of infrastructure projects.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential for this post which will also include exposure to both internal and external clients.
- Degree level qualification in town planning.
- Chartered status (MRTPI) or working towards chartership.
- Experience of delivering planning consents for infrastructure projects, working with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Sound knowledge and experience of the UK planning system, gained in either a local authority or private sector setting.

You will be well versed in the preparation of all planning documentation for infrastructure projects, engagement with key stakeholders including planning authorities and statutory consultees. The role requires a good grounding in statutory procedures applicable to the consenting of infrastructure projects.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential for this post which will also include exposure to both internal and external clients.

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