Senior Town Planner

About AECOM

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. We are a Fortune 500 firm with revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025.

We're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand.

About the Role

Due to significant infrastructure planning wins and new opportunities, we are looking to hire a Senior Town Planner. You will be joining a great team with an interesting and diverse workload and the opportunity to make the most of your abilities.

The role can be based from our offices in Basingstoke, Birmingham, Bristol, Chesterfield, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester and Plymouth, with an option for hybrid working. As our Town Planning team is national, we are flexible in terms of base location.

You will work on a range of prestigious infrastructure projects for our clients in the energy transition, rail and water development sectors, as well as a range of regional and local developments. AECOM is a market leader in UK infrastructure development, with experience of over 80 DCO projects. You could be working on:

• numerous solar DCOs with a pipeline of future work
• carbon capture and storage projects
• energy transmission schemes
• large aviation and rail projects
• housing and mixed-use development consenting

Responsibilities

Project Coordination and Delivery

• Assisting in the successful delivery of major development applications and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams across various project types
• Assisting with project management and implementing quality and health and safety principles

Planning Advice and Strategy

• Providing planning advice to colleagues and clients on planning consent requirements and the application of permitted development rights
• Carrying out planning research and analysis and assisting with planning feasibility reports and consent strategies

Documentation and Application Management

• Writing Planning Statements and Design and Access Statements for development applications
• Leading, submitting, and managing planning applications, including liaison and negotiation with local planning authorities and other key stakeholders

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement

• Working closely with the Environmental Impact Assessment team
• Participating in internal and external meetings

Research, Business Development, and Project Management

• Contribution to the preparation of successful commercial tenders
• Carrying out planning research and analysis and assisting with planning feasibility reports and consent strategies

About Our Team

AECOM's rapidly growing Town Planning team plays a key role in delivering major infrastructure and development projects. AECOM is a top ten UK planning consultancy by size, employing more than 70 Chartered or Licentiate Planners.

AECOM is a worldwide leader in environmental and engineering consultancy. Working as a planning consultant within AECOM means access to some of the highest profile and prestigious development projects in the UK, working with colleagues operating at the cutting edge of their disciplines as part of the largest UK environmental consultancy.

Become part of our Environment business, and collaborate with top-tier planners, impact assessment specialists and project managers to consent a variety of captivating projects, from local developments to major and national infrastructure, from developing planning strategies to obtaining consent and post consent work. At AECOM, you'll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued.

Requirements

Education and Qualifications

• Degree in Town Planning or a related discipline (desirable)
• Membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) or an equivalent professional body (desirable)

Experience

• Demonstrable and relevant experience of working on planning applications

Knowledge

• Sound knowledge of English planning policy and legislation

Skills

• Commercial awareness
• Ability to write clearly and concisely

Personal Qualities

• Client focus, with good interpersonal skills and a collaborative working approach
• High level of commitment to quality

Benefits and Working Environment

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. You'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

Additional Information

All newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

AECOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Disability Confident Employer. We will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. If you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme, please let us know at [email protected].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.