Overview

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Location: Bristol or Cardiff, UK

Recruiter contact: Pranjali Ahuja

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across industries delivering exciting work that defines our future and creates societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. We offer opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow and aim to empower, include, and value everyone. This is a proudly employee-owned business.

About the division: Environmental and social considerations are central to Mott MacDonald’s purpose and offerings across all sectors. Our environment and social business provides essential services and innovative solutions for clients across sectors.

Overview Of The Role

You will support and help grow our Wales and South West planning business based in Bristol or Cardiff. You will develop relationships with colleagues across the business and work with the full range of technical disciplines on large and complex infrastructure and development projects in the UK. These will cover sectors including energy, water, transport, and the built and natural environment, for clients such as the Ministry of Justice, Welsh Government, Network Rail, Transport for Wales, National Highways, Environment Agency, water providers, and local councils in the region.

The work is varied and includes preparing and submitting planning applications, providing strategic town planning consultancy advice, advising on consenting processes/strategies, and informing optioneering for scheme development. There are opportunities to deliver Development Consent Orders (DCOs), Developments of National Significance (DNSs) for NSIPs, and Transport and Works Act Orders (TWAOs) in rail, energy, and water sectors.

Key Responsibilities And Duties

• Work as part of the planning team to deliver a range of planning projects, including collaboration with other disciplines as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Draft planning deliverables to a high standard, including high-level options appraisals, preparing and reviewing documents for planning applications, TWAOs or DNSs, planning policy preparation and advice, and supporting the coordination and preparation of planning applications
• Liaise with Local Planning Authorities and statutory consultees to ensure applications are registered and determined in a timely manner
• Work with clients to meet their needs and aspirations, ensuring deliverables are produced and targets hit in line with the project programme/brief
• Prepare inputs into bids for new work

Candidate specification

Essential

• Degree and/or Masters in Town Planning
• Extensive town planning experience
• Working towards Chartered Member of the RTPI or equivalent
• Experience of preparing and submitting planning applications, drafting reports, feasibility studies, masterplans and regeneration strategies
• Experience of working with a range of client bodies including both private sector and public sector
• Experience of team working to support the delivery of projects as part of a multi-disciplinary project structure
• Experience of working within the local market is advantageous

If you meet the majority but not necessarily all of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

Other Information

UK Immigration: Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision reflects changes to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We welcome applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK that do not require sponsorship.

Agile working: We offer a hybrid working policy that supports well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion: We promote fair employment procedures and equal opportunities for all. We strive for an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute.

Accessibility: If you are disabled or need support to apply or attend an interview, please contact reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com to discuss how we can support you.

Benefits

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues
• Health cash plan for everyday costs and treatments
• Access to Peppy for menopause support
• Wellbeing program with family support
• Ability to flex your salary to join health benefits

Financial wellbeing

• Employer pension contributions matching between 4.5% and 7%
• Life assurance up to 4 x salary (option to 6 x)
• Income protection and return-to-work support
• Flexible benefits including increased life cover and critical illness insurance
• Participate in annual bonus schemes

Lifestyle

• Holiday entitlement 33-35 days (depending on level) with buy/sell options; increases to at least 35 days after 5 years
• Discounts and saving schemes

Enhanced family and carers leave

• 26 weeks paid maternity/adoption leave, two weeks paid paternity/partner leave
• Shared parental leave up to 24 weeks at full pay
• Additional caring leave entitlements

Learning and development

• Annual professional institution subscription
• Opportunities to develop technical and soft skills through mentoring, training, and self-development

Networks and social outcomes

• Join groups supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race/ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities
• Contribute to social outcomes in communities

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Location(s): Bristol, GB; Cardiff, GB

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Water

Discipline: Environment

Job Ref: 10179

Recruiter Contact: Pranjali Ahuja