urban planner

Our busy and successful Birmingham office has a multidisciplinary offering that includes Urban Design/Masterplanning, Landscape Planning and Design, Town Planning, Engineering, Transport Planning and EIA, among others. Our Birmingham office boasts a friendly and busy atmosphere and has been recently refurbished. Conveniently located within the heart of the city centre it has easy access to public transport, including being a short walk from New Street, Moor Street and Snow Hill Stations.

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented and creative Urban Designer or Senior Urban Designer to join the Urban Design / Masterplanning team, working on medium and large scale residential and mixed-use development masterplans and layouts for UK projects.

About you

To have an impact in the role you will be:

• Work on UK projects (predominantly for national housebuilders) supporting with planning applications and masterplans for new communities formed through mixed use and housing-led developments of between 200 and 10,000 dwellings.
• Conduct site, context and character appraisals to inform the design for new developments.
• Develop exciting and deliverable visions for new settlements and extensions to existing towns.
• Work up masterplan drawings, design strategies and detailed illustrations to support design principles.
• Produce indicative layouts for either parts of or whole developments.
• Produce urban design concepts supported by well-considered design rationales that take account of technical constraints.
• Colour drawings by hand or using design software.
• Support the production/testing of concepts for the arrangement of land uses on site.
• Support the production of comprehensive design and access statements comprising of written and graphic outputs, taking responsibility for, and delivering information packages including reports.
• Assist the team to produce comprehensive Design Codes.
• Overall responsibility for day-to-day running of jobs, including liaising with colleagues and briefing and mentoring junior team members.
• Work alongside local communities and other stakeholders through collaborative design workshops and public exhibitions.
• Support the generation of new client work, have an interest in networking opportunities and a willingness to develop good business development skills.
• Assist to raise the team’s profile and expand its client base.
• Liaise with other technical professionals to ensure technical deliverability of projects.
• Produce outstanding work to a specific brief and within tight deadlines; and
• Contribute to the design process through creative thinking and concept development.

To succeed in the role, you will:

• Experience of working on large scale UK residential and mixed-use development masterplans, including new settlements and urban extensions in an Urban Design or Masterplanning role.
• Either an MA or Postgraduate Diploma in Urban Design and a genuine enthusiasm for creating new high quality and sustainable communities.
• Experience within an Urban Design or Masterplanning role in a consultancy environment.
• The ability to manage projects and coordinate the production of Design and Access Statements.
• A good attention to detail, strategic in approach with the ability to see the bigger picture.
• Present to a variety of audiences, including clients and large external multi-disciplinary consultancy teams.
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketchup and Microsoft Packages.
• The ability to produce high quality hand drawings.
• The ability to coordinate large amounts of technical information.
• Excellent team working skills, with the ability to lead workshops and develop consensus amongst multiple stakeholder groups;
• The ability to work independently, managing your own time and workload to meet deadlines.
• Hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a car

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About Stantec

From Barton Willmore’s earliest days as Architects and Planners pioneering the profession, to today where we span all sectors and numerous specialisms, we have sought to be leaders in our field. We nurture passionate teams who are focused on creating sustainable communities that meet the needs of the people who live, work and play in them.

Now, we join Stantec, a 25,000 strong team of designers, engineers, scientists, environmentalists, project managers and economists, enabling us to expand our inter-disciplinary offer even further, delivering broader skills and global experience to support both public and private sector clients throughout their entire project’s lifecycle.

Our inter-disciplinary teams combine high quality, innovative and sustainable design with strong commercial awareness and are skilled at guiding developments of all types from entire healthy new communities to town centre regeneration. Our specialist teams can plan, design and deliver and work across all sectors from residential to leisure, industrial to education.

Our experts lead their fields, collaborating on projects that are as technically challenging as they are impactful, creative, and fulfilling. We provide a workplace where you can apply your passion, skills and creativity and find endless opportunities to help make communities more equitable, resilient, and liveable.

We strive to drive advancement in the communities we serve, and bring the same passion to growing the potential of each professional who joins our community, and are committed to making our community diverse and inclusive. We are better together.

We are committed to supporting, fostering, and investing in our employees’ successes. We are leaders in our field for investment in staff development, graduate and apprentice programmes, STEM initiatives, and the progression of future business leaders. We create exciting opportunities for the development of our staff and, as one of our employees, you’ll be able to maintain and develop your skills, learn and adapt to change, and identify opportunities for growth within our global career framework.