Graduate Town Planner - Community Development - 2026

As a Stantec Graduate Town Planner, you'll join a collaborative team of professionals and fellow graduates, developing your expertise within a creative and interdisciplinary environment. You'll gain exposure to a wide variety of projects across the residential, commercial and environmental sectors, supporting work from initial research and site appraisals through to planning applications, community engagement, plan promotion and planning appeals. You'll contribute to the delivery and coordination of projects, working closely with colleagues from a range of disciplines to help ensure successful outcomes.

Our Town Planning team specialises in large-scale, complex mixed-use and residential-led developments across the North West and Tees Valley, including new communities, garden villages, regeneration projects, environmental initiatives and renewable energy schemes. This role offers excellent opportunities to broaden your planning knowledge, build professional skills and gain experience in multidisciplinary project delivery while being supported by experienced colleagues throughout your development.

Take a look at our Infrastructure business line here:
Infrastructure Planning | Stantec, and review the career journey of some of our early careers professionals here:
Career Stories | Stantec About The Role Day to day, you'll be:

• Undertaking planning research and site appraisals to support project development.
• Assisting with the preparation and submission of planning applications.
• Supporting community engagement and stakeholder consultation activities.
• Contributing to the promotion of spatial development strategies, local plans and planning policy responses.
• Assisting with planning appeals and the preparation of supporting documentation.
• Working on a diverse range of residential, commercial and environmental projects.
  
  At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in an RTPI accredited degree, a knowledge of Adobe, Microsoft office plus sketch up and design would be beneficial, and a keen interest in working in the Infrastructure sector, you'll be:
• A Perseverer
  - You stay composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.
• An Adapter
  - You're able to remain calm in new and changing situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
• A Focused Individual
  - You focus on what matters, tuning out distractions to perform effectively in any situation.
• A Collaborator
  - You work effectively with lots of different people, considering others' perspectives to shape better outcomes.
• An Eager Learner
  - You learn from your experiences and the world around you, using this knowledge to anticipate how situations may unfold.
• A competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance
• Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec
• Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership
• A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)