Principal Town Planner

**Location**: Belfast, GB
**Category**: Planning & Consulting
**Job ID**: BIE0002N0

**Your Impact**:
At Jacobs, we’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business

**About the opportunity**:
Our Town Planning team sits within Water and Environment Operating Unit - a unit with over 2,000 professionals covering over 30 disciplines across Ireland and the UK over a wide range of infrastructure projects to reinvent tomorrow.

Due to the continued growth of our town planning services in our Dublin office we are looking for a Principal Town Planner to support and develop our increasing portfolio of projects.

We offer planning advice and solutions across the company’s full portfolio of high-profile infrastructure projects across Ireland.

**Key Job Responsibilities**:

- Technical direction of projects within the team
- Develop client relationships and develop new opportunities for Town Planning Work
- Help develop the wider team through mentoring and management
- Working collaboratively with clients and colleagues to meet shared objectives
- Preparation and management of a wide range of reports, including appeals, development plan and other submissions, planning appraisals and Environmental Impact Assessment Reports
- Analysis of legislation, national and local planning policy to guide client proposals and facilitating successful consenting
- Supporting the development of strong customer relationships and delivering client-focused solutions

**Here’s what you’ll need**:

- A recognised planning qualification (IPI or RTPI)
- An ability to identify relevant environmental, social and economic policy and legislation and use it to scope and develop appropriate consenting routes
- Experience of bidding/tendering for internal and external opportunities and strong commercial awareness
- Experience of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and how it applies to major development projects

**Our Culture**

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. **Find out more about life at Jacobs.**

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s - **find out more about our employee networks here.