Principal/Associate Town Planner

What's on offer?

• An internationally renowned multidisciplinary with a North-based planning team of 15 across Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield
• Northern Transformation - offering planning-based strategy and solutions to a fantastic variety of local clients; spatial planning with local governments, Yorkshire Water Planning Framework, NSI's e.g. A57, Energy and Renewables projects e.g. Hynet and Electricity Transmission with National Grid as well as offshore work.
• A great time to join - with the recent announcement of a Labour Government, new ambitions and targets are becoming clearer by the day and changes in planning will require expert consultation. Your new company are at the forefront of driving this transformation across the North.
• The full scope of planning - you will get the opportunity to run jobs, develop junior staff, project manage, work on bids and fee proposals, generate your own work using internal and external relationships and manage ethos clients
• Collaborative environment - you will have the daily support of the wider UK planning team as well as engineering, EIA and project management teams to lean on for advice
• Competitive package - Salary up to circa £65,000 + car allowance, employee pension contribution up to 10%, hybrid and flexible working (2/3 days in office), life assurance, private medical care and a range of opt-in schemes

What will you need?

• A degree or post graduate qualification in Town and Country Planning (RTPI accredited) with Chartered membership of RTPI (or close to qualification)
• Detailed relevant experience working in consultancy, a local authority planning team, or similar.
• A sound, in-depth knowledge of planning law and procedures & sound commercial awareness and proven ability to manage project budgets.
• Proven experience in managing and delivering multidisciplinary projects; ability and aptitude to work alongside and coordinate internal and external technical specialists with strong report writing, verbal and presentation skills, and the aptitude to rationally explain, explore and discuss planning, development and environmental issues.
• Proven experience of building successful relationships with internal and external stakeholders along with ability to check and review complex documents and summarise and present key issues in a clear and concise way, understandable to non-specialists.

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