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Consultant Town Planner
Consultant Town Planner – AECOM
Company Description
Work with Us. Change the World.
At AECOM, 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. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers, and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive impact around the world.
We're one global team driven by our common purpose: deliver a better world. Join us.
Job Description: Start here. Grown Here.
We have an opportunity for a Consultant Town Planner. AECOM’s Planning and Stakeholder Engagement business is recruiting Consultant Planners to help deliver our growing portfolio—across a range of sectors, principally focused on large-scale infrastructure.
As our Town Planning team is national and supports hybrid working, flexibility exists around base location. You can join us from offices in:
- Basingstoke
- Birmingham
- Bristol
- Cardiff
- Chesterfield
- Leeds
- London (Aldgate)
- Manchester
- Plymouth
Key Responsibilities
You will be part of a market-leading, experienced infrastructure planning team with the following responsibilities:
Planning & Development Management
- Assist in the management and successful delivery of major development applications.
- Provide dynamic planning advice—including interpretation of permitted development rights.
- Carry out planning research and risk identification.
Technical Reporting & Documentation
- Prepare Planning Statements and Design and Access Statements to support development applications.
- Liaise with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) team to ensure coordinated project delivery.
Project Coordination & Delivery
- Help coordinate multi-disciplinary teams across diverse project types.
- Assist with project management to support successful outcomes.
- Implement QA and health & safety principles.
Business Development & Commercial Support
- Contribute to successful tender bids through preparation and proposal support.
Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
- Participate in internal and external meetings.
- Build strong working relationships with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders.
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More About the Work
AECOM believes in infrastructure as an enabler for opportunity. Our work impacts everyone—from improving commutes to advancing energy transition and housing development. We are a leader in Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs), working across:
- Renewables and energy infrastructure (solar DCO projects, carbon capture, grid upgrades).
- Transport developments (rail, aviation, logistics).
- Water and defence projects.
Our global reputation for the highest-profile projects continues: ✔ 80+ Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects ✔ Nuclear controllers ✔ Large شيئًا rail and aviation programs
If you’re eager to make meaningful impact and partner with top-tier clients, AECOM could be the right move.
About Planning at AECOM
- #1 among UK planning consultancies by size, employing over 70 Chartered/Licence RTPI members.
- A world leader in environmental and engineering consultancy, providing access to cutting-edge expertise on the UK’s most prestigious projects.
- Collaboration across disciplines ensures that you challenge the status quo, setting new standards in planning.
This role offers: ✔ Diverse workloads with high-profile winners ✔ Meaningful contributions to industry-led solutions ✔ Opportunities to grow within a springboard network
Requirements
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Here’s your profile:
Professional Qualifications
✈ Licentiate Member (Mayor� dermatitisح of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) or equivalent professional body, fully dedicated to progressing to membership (MRTPI).
Technical Expertise
- Experienced in major planning applications (DCOs, TWAOs, Rural Planning Orders, local developments).
- **Proficient knowledge of planning policy & legal frameworks at national and local levels.
- Applicable experience with Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) methodologies.
- High ability to identify, evaluate and manage planning risks.
Commercial & Consultancy Skills
- Strong commercial awareness with excellent clear and concise written communication.
- Consultancy experience, including budget management, programme oversights, and stakeholder engagement.
Collaborative & Relationship-Driven
- Client-focused, with strong interpersonal skills and drive for excellence.
- Proven experience in multi-disciplinary teamwork.
Project Delivery & Technical Competencies
- Quick work, meeting deadlines under pressure.
- Fluency with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project).
Additional Information
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About AECOM
- A Fortune 500 leader, over $16 billion in revenue (2025 fiscal year) in global infrastructure consulting.
- Energy, buildings, transport, water, and environmental solutions delivered at every project stage—with a purpose: building a better world.
- Values: technical excellence, EDI commitment, environmental, social & governance priorities.
Opportunities & Culture
🌍 Hybrid work options—we respect your flexibility to work from AECOM offices, remote, or client sites. 💡 Innovation driven pricing—entrepreneurial spirit welcomed with creative opportunity. 🏠 Career support: We grow our specialists through continuous training and advancement opportunities.
✨ With over $16 billion in revenue we offer:
- Generous benefits & wellness initiatives
- <b>Number-one sector-leading technologies & thinking</b>
- Strategic industry impact
- Flexibility reworked
benefits
Join us, and you’ll gain the perks of a global, publicly traded enterprise:
- Competitive pay and performance-based rewards
- Development and training programs focused on career growth.
- Flexible compensation models in partnership (or full ownership) of workloads.
- Health & mental health support
- Professional indemnity & indemnity insurance coverage while undertaking key project management roles.
- Parenting support, adoption leave, and childcare assistance where available.
- Employee share offering schemes and financial wellness programs.
- Environmentally-focused perks (including discounted green transport initiatives).
AECOM celebrated as an Equal Opportunity Employer—we’re proud to shape a culture than encourages diversity, bringing growth to each employee’s potential.
We are Disability-Confident Employers and actively encourage applicants with disabilities to apply. Contact ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com if you subscribe to the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
Confidentiality respected as EEO guidelines service.
Why AECOM?
- Look no further if you want to change the world: Energy, water, awards—ermplace Prince Deport margins. Career stewardship, diversity, recognition—radio competence-a feasibility.
- Together, we shape infrastructure for generations to come.
ReqID: J10153739
Business Area:
- Planning
- Environment Location Model: Hybrid Career Path: Planning discipline Organisational Structure:
- Europe & India Team (P&E), Central Southern
- UK Planning Group
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