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Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.

YOUR ROLE:

We are looking for a Graduate Town Planner to be based in Manchester , joining our 2025 Graduate Programme.
As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and wider cohort, developing your town planning expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment.
You will be based in our Manchester city centre office, part of our wider award-winning Northern planning team. You will gain client facing experience from an early stage and benefit from outstanding professional development opportunities within an innovative and exciting multi-disciplinary community.
As a Graduate Planner, you will develop your planning knowledge and skills by supporting the wider team on a range of projects. You will build close working relationships with a variety of clients including local authorities, property developers and private landowners.

ASSISTING WITH A BROAD VARIETY OF PROJECTS, YOUR DUTIES COULD INCLUDE:

• Appraising sites to determine their suitability for proposed developmentschemes.
• Assisting in the preparation and submission of planning applications and monitoring the progress of applications post-submission.
• Liaising with and seeking advice from other technical disciplines such as transport, acoustics, and ecology.
• Demonstrating that a proposed development is policy compliant / researching whether a proposal could benefit from permitted development rights.
• Working on evidence-based projects such as retail and leisure studies.
• Developing strategies for securing planning permission and drafting advice notes for clients.
• Undertaking site assessments as part of Strategic Housing and Employment Land Availability Assessments and Sequential Assessments.
• Assisting colleagues with planning enquiries from other technical disciplines.
  You will join a supportive and successful team with exciting career opportunities, have great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and exciting inter-disciplinary environment.
  Take a look at our Town Planning business line:- Town Planning (stantec.com), and review the career journey of one of our Town Planners:- My Stantec Story: Building a career in planning with Joseph Lynch