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We are looking for a Graduate Infrastructure Planner to be based in London or Cambridge, joining our 2026 Graduate Programme.
As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and fellow graduates, developing your town planning expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment. You will be working alongside your fellow graduates and collaborating with other Stantec teams. This role will equip you with technical knowledge in infrastructure planning, while also giving you an understanding of the broader services offered by Stantec.
You will be involved in various tasks with the potential to work on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) as well as ‘local planning’ projects, undertaking work including planning assessments, managing pre-application processes and helping to promote development proposals. You'll also gain experience assisting with project coordination, research, site appraisals, and planning documents. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to policy representations, planning appeals, and network building within and outside the company. Clients include a broad range of finance-backed promoters and developers, utility companies and national operators, for which you'll be involved in renewable energy, battery storage, water storage and transfer, carbon capture and storage and low-carbon high tech food production (i.e. vertical farms).
You will join a supportive team with exciting career opportunities, have great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and exciting multi-disciplinary environment.
Take a look at our Infrastructure Planning business line:- Infrastructure Planning (stantec.com), and review the career journey of one of our Planners:- My Stantec Story: Building a career in planning with Joseph Lynch
Along with your Bachelor’s degree in Town Planning or Geography, we’d love to receive your application if you are:-
Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support.
A competitive salary
Private medical insurance
A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance
Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec
Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership
A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs ( Graduate Application FAQs ) if you have any questions. The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. 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 clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. 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.
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