Senior Planner​/Associate Town Planner

Job Title:

Senior Planner / Associate

Location:

Edinburgh or Glasgow

Penguin Recruitment is delighted to be supporting a leading planning consultancy in their search for a Senior Planner or Associate to join their successful Scotland Planning team. This is an excellent opportunity for a capable and commercially minded planning professional to play a key role in delivering high-quality, profitable projects across a wide range of sectors.

As a Senior Planner / Associate, you will:

• Build, maintain and enhance professional networks.
• Develop and nurture new and existing client relationships.
• Secure and deliver profitable project work.

• Manage and execute planning projects to agreed budgets and timescales.
• Ensure all work is compliant with industry standards, regulations, and internal processes.
• Contribute to efficient financial management through timely timesheet and administration completion.

• Maintain up-to-date industry knowledge and promote continuous learning.
• Support the recruitment and onboarding of team members where required.
• Provide guidance, performance management and leadership to colleagues.

• Work closely with colleagues across the business.
• Promote the consultancy's services and identify opportunities for cross-selling.

• A broad understanding of planning issues across multiple sectors.
• Experience with in the Scottish planning system preferred, but not essential.

• MRTPI chartered status ideal, or actively working towards chartership.

• Strong grounding in development management, planning policy and project management.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a dynamic, collaborative team.

• Proactive mindset with strong commercial awareness.
• Confident communicator with excellent client-facing skills.
• Strong initiative and problem-solving capability.

• Right to work in the UK (proof required at application stage).
• Primarily office-based with flexibility for some remote working.

If you're looking for a new challenge and want to be part of a forward-thinking planning consultancy, please contact Josh Jones at Penguin Recruitment on (phone number removed) or email (url removed)