RPS is looking for a Senior Town Planner to join our National Development & Infrastructure Planning Team based in Birmingham or Manchester. The range of work on offer is wide and varied and will provide you with rich experience in town planning. Working alongside a range of multi-disciplinary services, the role will provide an opportunity to work on varied projects, providing you with rich experience in town planning across the region. Our projects include major planning applications dealing with residential mixed-use developments, helping our customers deliver major infrastructure projects (including renewable energy) through to aiding the delivery of office, retail, or logistic schemes.
With our planning service at the heart of the business, the role will give you a progressive step-up in presiding over planning casework, proactively helping towards defining your career pathway towards promotion.
We are RPS, our projects are all around you. We define, design, and take care of projects that create shared value to a composite, urbanising and resource-scarce world. Our people are our success. We are looking for people who can find a solution to the problems that matter. Our flat structure creates greater collaboration and speed of communication, enabling us to work with some of the brightest minds in the industry. Here you will find work that is stimulating and rewarding, and you will be guided every step of the way.
What you will be doing
You will be assisting our strategic planning work, which includes the preparation of representations to Local Plan consultations and developing planning strategies to promote land and development for inclusion in Local Plans.
· Aiding Planning Directors’ in successfully delivering their planning caseload, including preparing Planning Statements and representations to Local Plan consultations.
· Developing your written and oral communication techniques
· Directly engaging in our business development initiatives
· Actively guiding our Planners, Assistant Planners, Graduates and Apprentices
· Contributing/ engaging in our Prospects Planning Group
Who we are looking for
A fully qualified RTPI chartered town planner, with experience in a planning consultancy or local government role and:
· Aptitude to work to tight time frames
· Knowledge and experience of planning, development and environmental issues
· A good working knowledge of planning policy
· Attention to detail and a proactive mindset
· A strategic thinker and someone who can readily address problems
· A market awareness and a good comprehending of local planning issues
· Experience working in a planning policy role would be an advantage and/or experience in a city/urban planning environment within the Birmingham or Manchester region
What is in it for you?
A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you’ll, be helped as far as you want to go.
We’re proud to be an accredited ILM training provider, internationally recognised and providing robust fully accredited professional training programmes - to master’s degree level professional qualifications in leadership & management and executive coaching & mentoring, we provide and development for everyone.
We encourage and value different ideas, perspectives, and styles of thinking. We need a mix of experiences and techniques to develop the ideas. We respect one another and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. You’ll be joining a diverse community and a company that puts its people first and prioritises their wellbeing.
We identify the need to work flexibly, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we’re happy to communicate about flexible working. This is a workplace that works for you.
What happens next?
The Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application. If your application is progressed, you will have a conversation with one of our recruiters prior to an interview with the Team. All applications will be considered.
RPS, A Tetra Tech company
Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, on 24 January 2023 RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With 28,000 staff in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a spearheading, global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market-leading development and project opportunities, helping to find a solution to some of the world’s most intricate problems.
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