Associate Planner
📍 Manchester | Hybrid Working
💰 £60,000 - £70,000 DOE + Excellent Benefits
Key Highlights
- Salary of £65,000 - £70,000 plus annual bonus
- Hybrid working with excellent flexibility
- Employee Ownership Trust with tax-free bonus opportunities
- Work on nationally significant infrastructure and major development projects
About the Client
Due to continued growth, we are recruiting for an experienced Associate Planner to join a leading UK planning and environmental consultancy. You'll play a key role in delivering high-profile planning projects across sectors including infrastructure, renewable energy, residential, commercial and regeneration, while working alongside an experienced and collaborative team.
Benefits
- Hybrid and flexible working
- Annual performance bonus
- Private healthcare
- Pension contribution
- Payment of professional membership fees
- Employee Ownership Trust with tax-free bonus opportunities
- Genuine career progression into senior leadership
- Supportive and collaborative working culture
The Associate Planner Role
As an Associate Planner, you'll lead a diverse portfolio of planning projects from inception through to completion. You'll provide expert planning advice, prepare reports and planning applications, manage client relationships and support Directors in delivering complex development schemes. You'll also mentor junior team members while helping to develop new business opportunities and maintain strong relationships with local authorities and stakeholders.
Essential Skills
- Chartered Member of the RTPI (or equivalent)
- Degree qualified in Town Planning or a related discipline
- Around 10+ years' planning experience within the public or private sector
- Strong knowledge of the Town and Country Planning Act and planning policy
- Experience managing planning applications and major development projects
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) knowledge
- Excellent report writing and communication skills
- Commercial awareness and the ability to manage client relationships
To Be Considered
Please either apply through this advert or email me directly via dan.butler@hirecracker.com.
For further information please call me on 01113 887 8355 or 07881 244 212.
By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process and submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only.
Key Skills: Associate Planner, Town Planner, RTPI, Planning Consultant, Development Planning, Environmental Impact Assessment, EIA, Town & Country Planning, Infrastructure, Planning Applications, Manchester, Hybrid Working.