Junior Consultant Environmental Planning

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. **Role Description** As a Junior Consultant Town Planner, you will be contributing to the success of the town planning team in Arcadis, supporting the wider team to win and deliver great work for our clients and to build positive relationships within Arcadis and beyond. You will be an important part of an integrated planning and environmental team, delivering projects for a range of clients with opportunities to work across multiple sectors. **Role Accountabilities** - Deliver high-quality technical work as part of a team, ensuring relevant professional guidance, policy and practice is adhered to. - Work with senior colleagues to manage your time effectively to ensure timely delivery and effective utilisation. - Work collaboratively with other sectors/disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall solution. - Develop effective working relationships with project leads and where appropriate, with the client, and ensure communication of progress and changes. - Develop and maintain an understanding of the services delivered by Arcadis, of the client’s business and the industry sector to facilitate personal networking and to consolidate personal and company credibility in the industry. - Proactively understand and engage with relevant Arcadis policies, procedures and processes and carry out the accountability of the role in accordance with Arcadis General Business Principles. **Qualifications & Experience** - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline, preferably accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) or equivalent. - Competent in town planning skills relevant to area of work (e.g. development planning, planning policy, infrastructure planning) and basic knowledge of related disciplines. - Eligibility for achieving Chartered status or equivalent professional accreditation. - Relevant experience in town planning or directly relevant profession, with some experience applying key principles in practice. - Advanced proficiency with relevant desktop applications. - Good interpersonal and communication skills. - Good time management skills. - Effective technical, project management, client relationship management and commercial skills. - An understanding of Environmental, Safety and Risk Management. Why Arcadis? We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.