Consultant Town Planner

6 months ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom AECOM Full time

**Company Description** Work with Us. Change the World.**

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of nearly 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.
**Job Description** What your new role will entail**:
You will be joining a market leading, experienced infrastructure planning team and will, be given the following responsibilities.
- Carrying out planning research and analysis and assist with the identification of planning risk.
- Liaising with the Environmental Impact Assessment team.
- Contribution to the preparation of successful commercial tenders.
- Assisting with project management and implementing quality and health and safety principles.
- Participating in internal and external meetings

**Being part of the team**:
AECOM’s Town Planning Practice is recruiting Consultant Planners to help deliver our existing portfolio of projects and a pipeline of projects, across a range of sectors, principally delivering large scale infrastructure.

As a national team, we are flexible in terms of base office location across our** offices in Basingstoke, Bristol, Croydon and Birmingham.**

**PLANNING PRACTICE AT AECOM**

Come and join our friendly and supportive team. We operate as a national town planning team delivering major infrastructure, housing and commercial projects across all sectors but with a particular focus on energy transition. You will work with leading experts in a vast array of disciplines in your local office and nationally, helping to fast-track your career development.

We work flexibly, UK-wide, delivering much of our work remotely whilst benefitting from a strong planning team culture in one of our 11 main UK offices.

AECOM is a top ten UK Planning consultancy by size, employing around 80 Chartered or Licentiate Planners, practicing in all areas of the discipline. AECOM is also a worldwide leader in environmental and engineering consultancy and working as a planning consultant within AECOM means access to some of the highest profile and prestigious development projects in the UK, working with colleagues operating at the cutting edge of their disciplines as part of the largest UK environmental consultancy.

You will be joining a great team; you will have an interesting and diverse workload and you will be given the opportunity to make the most of your abilities.

What's not to like? Come and join us and we'll grow together.

**MORE ABOUT THE WORK**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions. We’re one global team - 52,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

You will be able to work on a range of prestigious infrastructure projects for our clients in the energy transition, rail and water development sectors, as well as a range of regional and local developments. AECOM is a market leader in UK infrastructure development, with experience of over 70 DCO projects. Join us now and you could be working on:

- numerous solar DCOs with a pipeline of future work;
- carbon capture and storage DCO;
- energy transmission schemes;
- Northern Powerhouse Rail - the biggest current Network Rail development project; and
- housing and mixed-use development consenting.

**Qualifications** Here’s what we will need from you**
- Licentiate Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) or an equivalent professional town planning organisation and working towards full accreditation.
- Commercial awareness and the ability to write clearly and concisely.
- Sound knowledge of UK planning policy and legislation.
- Client focused with good interpersonal skills and collaborative working approach with a high level of commitment to quality.
- Able to work to tight deadlines..
- An understanding of Environmental Impact Assessment legislation.
- Experience of working in collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams.
- Identifying, evaluating and managing planning risk.

**Additional Information**
We offer a

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