Graduate Town Planner - Manchester - 2025

As a Graduate Planner, you will develop your planning knowledge and skills by supporting the wider team on a range of projects. You will build close working relationships with a variety of clients including local authorities, property developers and private landowners.

Assisting with a broad variety of projects, your duties could include:

• Appraising sites to determine their suitability for proposed developmentschemes.


• Assisting in the preparation and submission of planning applications and monitoring the progress of applications post-submission.


• Liaising with and seeking advice from other technical disciplines such as transport, acoustics, and ecology.


• Demonstrating that a proposed development is policy compliant / researching whether a proposal could benefit from permitted development rights.


• Working on evidence-based projects such as retail and leisure studies.


• Developing strategies for securing planning permission and drafting advice notes for clients.


• Undertaking site assessments as part of Strategic Housing and Employment Land Availability Assessments and Sequential Assessments.


• Assisting colleagues with planning enquiries from other technical disciplines.


You will join a supportive and successful team with exciting career opportunities, have great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and exciting inter-disciplinary environment.

Take a look at our Town Planning business line:- Town Planning (stantec.com), and review the career journey of one of our Town Planners:- My Stantec Story: Building a career in planning with Joseph Lynch, Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment, supporting inclusion & diversity . We prohibit discrimination on the grounds of demographic background in any condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations, and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

We want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support/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 (e.g. extra assessment time, special access request etc). Please contact Careers.UK&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with your Bachelor's degree in Town Planning or Geography, we'd love to receive your application if you are:-

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees, working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. 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 clients' vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. 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.


• The Planner: Organising and managing your own activities, dealing effectively with multiple priorities with a structured approach.


• The Adapter: Able to remain calm in new situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.


• The Thinker: Evaluating options by understanding context and risks, navigating ambiguity and putting forward your thoughts and ideas.


• The Striver: Exhibiting ownership, consistently delivering on tasks and objectives. You'll be motivated and proactive in your work, having the desire to make a real difference.


Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support.

What we can offer you:

• A competitive salary


• Private medical insurance


• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance


• Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec


• Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership


• A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)