Consultant Town Planner

Job Description

Start here. Grown Here.

We have an opportunity for a Consultant Town Planner. AECOM’s Planning and Stakeholder Engagement business 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 our Town Planning team is national, and we support hybrid working we are flexible in terms of base location. The role can be based from our offices in Basingstoke, and London Aldgate with an option for hybrid working.

You will be joining a market leading, experienced infrastructure planning team and will, be given the following responsibilities.

• Assist in the management and successful delivery of major development applications.
• Provide planning advice to colleagues and clients, including the application of permitted development rights.
• Carry out planning research and analysis and assist with the identification of planning risks.

• Prepare Planning Statements and Design and Access Statements to support development applications.
• Liaise with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) team to ensure coordinated project delivery.

• Help coordinate multi-disciplinary teams across a variety of project types.
• Assist with project management activities to support successful project outcomes.
• Implement quality assurance and health and safety principles.

• Contribute to the preparation of successful commercial tenders.

• Participate in internal and external meetings.
• Build effective working relationships with colleagues, clients, and project stakeholders.

Does this sound like something you can do, and do well? If so, read on…

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.

We have an impressive portfolio of involvement in major infrastructure projects, including delivery of projects through various consenting regimes including Development Consent Orders. We are currently leading on consenting applications for renewables and wider energy/electricity related infrastructure, transport, defence, water and much more.

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 regional and local developments. AECOM is a market leader in UK infrastructure development, with experience of over 80 Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects. Join us now and you could be working on:

• numerous solar DCOs with a pipeline of future work;
• carbon capture and energy storage projects;
• energy transmission schemes including for National Grid’s Great Grid Upgrade;
• large aviation and rail projects; and
• housing and mixed-use development consenting.

AECOM is a top ten UK Planning consultancy by size, employing around 70 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.