Town Planner

TOWN PLANNER BASED AYRSHIRE / HYBRID ROLE – EXCELLENT SALARY DOE Based in Ayrshire, ESS Recruit’s client is a highly successful property and land investment management business. As the business continues to grow and expand the founding Director would now like to recruit an experienced Town Planner. All the business partners have extensive development experience, following their joint acquisition of land for development. With several exciting development sites on the West Coast & across the Central Belt reaching a critical stage, they have plans for more than 4000 units to be built across residential and retail sites in Scotland in the next few years. It is an exciting time to be joining the company. Key Purpose of Role: Preparing and submitting planning applications. Pre-application consultation and negotiation. Stakeholder engagement and management of the consultation process. Support planning applications through the decision-making and post-decision processes. Working with and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams. Providing support and leading team at planning appeals. Preparing planning appraisals for projects from across the UK Supporting senior staff with project delivery and supporting our team with business development activities. Skills required: A relevant qualification in Town Planning, Human Geography, or related discipline. Membership of the RTPI Somebody who is passionate about Planning and who wants to deliver excellent service and successful outcomes Good IT skills. Good time management skills and full appreciation of the commercial context of working under pressure and to deadlines in a busy development organisation Excellent written communication and focused report writing skills. Ability to develop arguments and to identify key concepts and contribute to strategy development. Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrable capabilities of working within a professional organisation and national team. Ability to work in a team and individually using own initiative. You will receive a competitive salary depending on experience, a profit related bonus, 28 days holiday + pension. Our client is massively flexible on hours worked across the week and will consider some home working too where required or even a part time application. In return you can expect a good base salary DOE, and good benefits. However, the security of this role will be a big draw. They have a pipeline of work secured for the next 5 years and as such are going through a period of expansion. To apply to this role please contact our recruitment partner Katie Hydes at ESS Recruit in Ayr