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Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.
Your role:
We are looking for a Graduate Environmental Planner to be based in Manchester, joining our 2025 Graduate Programme.
Joining Stantec as a graduate will see you working collaboratively with your team and wider cohort. You'll gain expertise in environmental planning and sustainability, while also developing awareness of our broader service offerings. You'll contribute to various projects, from planning appraisals and pre-application management to environmental, social, and economic impact assessments. Additionally, you'll help develop sustainability strategies and reports, promote development proposals, and assist project managers in delivering projects on time and within budget. This role also involves research, site appraisals, planning documents, application submissions and negotiations, policy representations, planning appeal assistance, and building your professional network both internally and externally.
You will join a supportive team with exciting career opportunities, have great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and exciting multi-disciplinary environment.
Take a look at our Environmental service line here:- Environmental Services (stantec.com), and see our Stantec Environmental Career Story here:- My Stantec Story: collaborating for better climate outcomes with Amber Leversedge
About you:
At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with your Bachelor’s degree in an environmental - related discipline, we’d love to receive your application if you are:-
- 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 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)
Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.
Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs (Graduate Application FAQs) if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!
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