Remote Technical Director Town Planning

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We have an opportunity for a Technical Director to lead infrastructure planning projects across the UK, with a particular expertise and focus on DCO projects. Due to significant infrastructure planning wins and new opportunities, we are looking to bring in a Technical Director to help manage and grow our planning consents team across the UK. We have an impressive portfolio of involvement in major infrastructure projects, including lead roles in the consenting and delivery of projects through various consenting regimes including DCOs.

We are currently leading on planning applications for renewables and wider energy/electricity related infrastructure, transport, defence, water and much more.

We are passionate about delivering planning to support complex projects.

As our Town Planning team is national, and we support hybrid working we are flexible in terms of base location. This position can be based from our offices in Basingstoke, Birmingham, Bristol, Chesterfield, Leeds, London or Manchester.

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.

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Here’s what you’ll do:

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

• Technical Leadership: Be a technical authority providing technical direction on frameworks and major projects and be a go to person for technical reviews. Lead technical solutions to deliver best possible solutions. As part of the senior leadership team, you will work with the practice lead and other directors to direct the planning business. Performing the Planning Lead and DCO Lead role for NSIP development applications.
  
  Leading other development planning work and providing authoritative planning advice to colleagues and clients.

• People Development & Mentoring: Provide mentoring to more junior staff supporting their technical development in project delivery and in appreciation of risks including how to manage and eliminate these on projects. As an inclusive people developer, you will:
  Demonstrate your dedication to driving our inclusion strategy by instilling a culture of respect within your team. Build a diverse and inclusive workforce by recruiting and retaining the best talent and nurturing the next generation of leaders who will do the same. Lead with empathy, respect and understanding, actively seeking out diverse points of view. Provide all employees the freedom they need to grow, develop, innovate and be their whole selves at work.

• Governance: Act as lead verifier (in accordance with AECOM’s quality assurance process) on major design projects and programmes providing technical direction on solutions ensuring these meet clients brief and expectations with risks adequately managed. Be able to lead design of large and complex projects including design and build projects with significant commercial risks.

• Commercial & Technical Support: Be able to demonstrate commercial awareness with regards to project delivery with an understanding of technical risks and how to manage these to offer value to clients and AECOM. Collaborative working,…