Senior Town Planner

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career; with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Telecom, we’re enabling and enhancing telecom networks, playing a lead role in the delivery of our tech enabled future. We deliver full network cycle services for fixed, private and mobile operators.

You’ll be working within mobile networks where we keep the country connected through the survey, design, installation and maintenance of private 5G networks, small cells, supporting Smart Cities & Connected infrastructure.

Want to come and be a part of it?

We're looking for an experienced Senior Town Planner to join our growing team and play a key role in delivering planning solutions for major telecommunications and infrastructure projects across the UK. You'll be joining a collaborative and supportive team where your expertise will directly influence project success, client satisfaction, and business growth. While your primary base will be one of our offices in West Byfleet, Diseworth or Warwick, we'll welcome applications from talented planners located across the UK who are able to travel to these locations as required.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Senior Town Planner, you'll take the lead on a variety of client projects, working closely with acquisition specialists, designers, engineers and surveyors to identify and secure the best planning outcomes. You'll be responsible for assessing planning opportunities and constraints, undertaking site appraisals and research, and developing innovative planning strategies that align with both client objectives and local authority requirements.

You'll manage planning applications through the entire lifecycle, from early-stage consultation and stakeholder engagement through to determination and, where necessary, the appeals process. We'll look to you to prepare high-quality planning submissions, provide clear and practical planning advice, and build positive relationships with clients, local authorities, stakeholders and local communities.

As a trusted planning expert, you'll monitor the progress of planning submissions, attend site visits and planning committee meetings where required, and support project teams by providing guidance on planning matters. You'll also play an important role in ensuring projects are delivered in line with agreed service levels, supporting revenue reporting, keeping abreast of planning legislation and policy changes, and sharing your knowledge and expertise with colleagues across the business.

What You'll Bring

• An RTPI-accredited degree or a degree in a planning-related discipline, such as Planning, Urban Design & Landscape, Transport Planning or Environmental Studies.
• Experience working within mobile telecommunications, infrastructure, utilities or a related planning environment.
• A strong understanding of UK planning legislation, policy and development management processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage confidently with clients, local authorities, stakeholders and colleagues.
• A proactive, self-motivated approach and the ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to develop creative planning solutions.
• The flexibility to adapt to changing client and project requirements.
• Commercial awareness and a commitment to delivering excellent client outcomes.
• Strong organisational and stakeholder management skills.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and relevant planning systems.

A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel as required.

If you're looking for an opportunity to take ownership of projects, develop strong client relationships and make a real impact within a growing business, we'd love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include.

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs. 

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. 

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding. 

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