Job Description

Are you a Heritage Planner with built heritage experience? Are you based in or looking to relocate to the vibrant cities of Leeds or Manchester? Do you want to work with a prestigious client base and for a top-tier global consultancy? If so, we would love to hear from you.

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our specialist Heritage team. The team have enjoyed continued success, establishing a heritage business that is recognised as a leading name in the industry. You will have the opportunity to work on exciting and prestigious projects, delivering high quality work to our client base. Our central Manchester office is in the trendy area of Spinningfields and our Leeds office is in the heart of the city centre. Both offices boast modern, open plan and collaborative environments. You will be working alongside your heritage colleagues (based in Cambridge, London and Leeds) and a wealth of other disciplines to undertake national work, predominantly in the Built Heritage space supporting colleagues through the UK business as well as an external client base. This is a growth role to support the growing portfolio or work and clients in the North.

About you

You will have a relevant first degree and/or post-graduate qualification in historic environment conservation, architectural history, building conservation (or similar) and ideally be a full member of IHBC (or eligible). We are looking for sound technical knowledge of heritage planning policy, legislation and best practice guidance. At Associate level, we are ideally looking for experience in consultancy or a similar private sector environment. You should be confident in appraising heritage significance, conducting appeals, undertaking impact assessments and preparing and submitting planning/listed building consent applications for a wide range of schemes and apply that to our portfolio of clients across the UK. We are ideally seeking local knowledge of, and a track record of client relationships and working in the Leeds/Manchester/Northern region.

We believe that it is our people and their individual talents that make us special. We work within a friendly, inclusive, and supportive culture and one of high support and high challenge, where we are not afraid to take on new and greater responsibilities and are each individually encouraged to grow and flourish both personally and professionally, with genuine career opportunities based on merit. We create a working environment that offers flexibility, adopting a hybrid approach to agile working and offer a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, private health care and a flexi-benefits package allowing you to choose benefits that are truly valuable to you, including the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.

For more information contact Ruth Hoggett (Talent Acquisition Manager)

Reasonable adjustments

We are an inclusive employer and want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support or reasonable adjustment you may need as a result of a disability, long term health condition, neurodiversity or other personal circumstances, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process (for example extra assessment time, visual adjustment, special access request).

Please contact a member of our talent team if reasonable adjustments are required. Our email is Careers.UK&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

About Stantec

Stantec is a top tier global consultancy, the Stantec community unites approximately 26,000 employees working in over 400 locations across 6 continents.

We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. With around 3,000 people working in integrated regional teams across the UK & Ireland. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our client\'s vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insight.

We deal with today\'s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

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