Senior Planner - Stantec UK Limited : Job Details

Do you have a passion for planning, shaping communities around you and a desire to work on exciting regeneration projects?

Our established Planning team in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Planner or Associate to join our growing team! This role offers a unique chance to work on a diverse range of projects across various sectors.

What you'll be doing:

• Promote large scale industrial and commercial, residential and mixed-use, urban regeneration, infrastructure and innovation-led development, and coordinating professional teams in the preparation and submission of major planning applications.

• Prepare and submit representations to Local Plans.

• Conduct site appraisals and manage projects for a variety of clients.

• Prepare planning and economic statements to support applications.

• Developing and maintaining relationships with existing and prospective clients.

• Play a key role in raising the team's profile and supporting business development activity across the Eastern Region.

Who you are:

• MRTPI qualified with strong planning experience (consultancy or private sector advantageous).

• A keen eye for detail.

• Enthusiastic about networking opportunities and profile raising.

• Excellent communication, presentation, and organisational skills.

• A team player with a strong work ethic and the ability to manage a complex workload.

• Full UK driving licence holder.

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.

Reasonable adjustments

We are an inclusive employer and want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support or reasonable adjustment you may need as a result of a disability, long term health condition, neurodiversity or other personal circumstances, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process (for example extra assessment time, visual adjustment, special access request).

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.

At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team