Our growing and busy Infrastructure and Environmental Planning team has an exciting opportunity for an Associate Environmental Planner to join them as part of the team’s ongoing growth strategy. The team operates nationwide and provides leading services to the energy, infrastructure, residential and commercial sectors. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and enthusiastic candidate to help both develop and deliver opportunities, building on the team’s success to date, and to assist in raising the team’s profile and establishing client contacts in the local market and to play an integral supporting role in the management and development of the team.

About you

The successful candidate will have excellent technical knowledge and understanding of environmental impact assessment best practice and the ways in which this applies to the UK Planning system. They will have proven experience of all stages of the EIA process and post-submission/determination, ideally within the Town & Country Planning and Development Consent Order (DCO) regimes.

Within this role, you would be able to provide Environmental advice and support to the wider Town Planning business line, and be involved within a wide range of projects, including residential, commercial, mixed-use, strategic, industrial, logistics and energy/infrastructure.

Within this role, you will:

• Develop relationships within the team, office and wider business, network and raise the team’s profile to assist with securing cross sold work;

• Provide clients and colleagues with environmental planning/consenting strategy and risk advice for a range of developments;

• Assist with critiquing the evidence base for Local Plan documents (e.g. Sustainability Appraisal, draft climate action plans etc);

• Lead Environmental Impact Assessments and associated processes for a range of developments, with junior support;

• Produce documents, letters and reports for all stages of the EIA process, and other related assessment work, from inception through to completion whilst providing a quality and timely service to clients;

• Review ES technical chapters and edit them with input from technical specialists so they are ready for senior/quality assurance review and sign off;

• Contribute to, and/or review other related work such as Climate Change impact assessment, Health Impact Assessment, Equalities Impact Assessment, Social Value Strategy, Sustainability Statements;

• Mentor junior members of the team.

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 healthcare and a flexi-benefits package allowing you to choose benefits that are truly valuable to you, including the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.

For more information, please contact Katrina Wheadon (Talent Acquisition Specialist).

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).

Please contact a member of our talent team if reasonable adjustments are required. Our email is Careers.UK&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

About Stantec

Stantec is a top-tier global consultancy that designs with communities in mind. The Stantec community unites approximately 26,000 employees, working in over 400 locations across 6 continents.

We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. With around 3,000 people working in integrated regional teams across the UK & Ireland, 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 client’s vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and comprehensive market insight.

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.

For more information on Stantec UK Inclusion & Diversity approach please visit:

Inclusion & Diversity (stantec.com)

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