WSP

2 months ago

Senior Town Planner

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Job Summary

Senior Town Planner at a leading engineering and professional services firm focused on major planning projects. You’ll lead planning strategies, prepare briefing notes and planning statements, manage multidisciplinary teams, and engage with planning authorities on landmark developments across healthcare, education, housing and life sciences.

Location: United Kingdom

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Devising planning strategies, assessing site’s planning history and relevant planning policies contained within a development plan; as well as national planning policy and guidance.
•Preparing briefing notes that set out the likelihood of achieving planning permission.
•Drafting planning statements in a clear and persuasive way, to support development proposals.
•Managing project delivery and budgetary control.
•Joining negotiations with planning authorities and other planning stakeholders and working collaboratively with colleagues from across WSP, and external organisations.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Gym Membership

Key Requirements

•Degree level qualification in town planning and / or postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject.
•Chartered status (MRTPI / MRICS).
•Sound knowledge and experience of the UK planning system, gained in either a local authority or private sector setting.
•Good technical and IT skills.
•A commercial approach to planning consultancy and development.

Education:Bachelor's

Skills:CommunicationTeamworkPlanningStakeholder managementOrganization

Languages:English

Company Brief

WSP

Global professional services firm providing engineering, consulting, and technical services across infrastructure, environment, buildings, transportation, and energy sectors for public- and private-sector clients worldwide.

Industry: Professional Services

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: Montreal, Canada

Founded: 1959

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