Town Planner - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Stantec

Stantec

Verified Company

Cardiff, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our Cardiff based planning team is part of our wider South West and Wales planning offer and is working on a wide variety of projects across Wales and the South West.

Their projects include schemes within the residential, mixed-use, strategic, renewables, infrastructure and energy sectors.

Based in the Creative Quarter, our office has easy access to public transport and is in the heart of the City Centre.

You will work on a broad range of planning projects, using your local knowledge to plan and deliver projects of all types and scales.

You should have excellent communications skills, planning experience, technical knowledge and a willingness to learn.

You will be expected to help with planning and delivering projects ranging in sector and scale, joining a supportive team environment with exciting career opportunities.

You will have plenty of client facing opportunities and outstanding professional development whilst gaining exposure to an innovative and exciting inter-disciplinary environment.

About you
To have an impact in the role you will:

Conducting research and site appraisals on projects for our client base
Assist with coordination of multidisciplinary project teams and project management
Draft representations to Local Plans and Supplementary Planning Documents

To succeed in the role, it is likely that you will:

Be MRTPI qualified or working towards it
Be committed to continuing your professional development with a willingness to learn and progress
Have experience of working on residential and mixeduse developments
Be collaborative by nature
Be commercially minded and able to take on personal responsibility
Be committed and have an eye for detail
Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
Be personable and professional with high levels of motivation, ambition and drive
Have an ability to manage your own time and workload
Hold a full UK driving licence

Additional desirable attributes would be:

Knowledge of planning in South Wales and/or South West
Some consultancy experience (advantageous); and
An interest in business development and networking opportunities.

We believe that it is our people and their individual talents that make us special.

We work within a friendly, inclusive, and supportive culture and one of high support and high challenge, where we are not afraid to take on new and greater responsibilities and are each individually encouraged to grow and flourish both personally and professionally, with genuine career opportunities based on merit.

We create a working environment that offers flexibility, adopting a hybrid approach to agile working and offer a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, private health care and a flexi-benefits package allowing you to choose benefits that are truly valuable to you, including the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.

About Stantec

From Barton Willmore's earliest days as architects and planners pioneering the profession, to today where we span all sectors and numerous specialisms, we have sought to be leaders in our field.

We nurture passionate teams who are focused on creating sustainable communities that meet the needs of the people who live, work and play in them.

Now, we join Stantec, a 25,000 strong team of designers, engineers, scientists, environmentalists, project managers and economists, enabling us to expand our inter-disciplinary offer even further, delivering broader skills and global experience to support both public and private sector clients throughout their entire project's lifecycle.

Our inter-disciplinary teams combine high quality, innovative and sustainable design with strong commercial awareness and are skilled at guiding developments of all types from entire healthy new communities to town centre regeneration.

Our specialist teams can plan, design and deliver and work across all sectors from residential to leisure, industrial to education.

We strive to drive advancement in the communities we serve, and bring the same passion to growing the potential of each professional who joins ours - our community, and are committed to making our community diverse and inclusive.

We are better together.

We are committed to supporting, fostering, and investing in our employees' successes.

We are leaders in our field for investment in staff development, graduate and apprentice programmes, STEM initiatives, and the progression of future business leaders.

We create exciting opportunities for the development of our staff and, as one of our employees, you'll be able to maintain and develop your skills, learn and adapt to change, and identify opportunities for growth within our global career framework.

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