Graduate Town Planner - Infrastructure - Taunton - 2026
With every community, Stantec redefines what’s possible.
Application Deadline Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.
Our Role
We are looking for a Graduate Town Planner to be based in Taunton, 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 interdisciplinary environment. You will contribute to a broad range of projects, from initial research and site appraisals to application preparation, community engagement, plan promotion, and planning appeals across the residential, commercial, and environmental sectors. You will also assist with project coordination and management, ensuring projects run smoothly.
Our Town Planning team principally focuses on large-scale, complex mixed-use and residential-led developments across the South-West, including new communities, garden villages, regeneration projects, environmental projects, and retirement housing schemes. We embrace interdisciplinary working, offering real opportunities to develop your understanding and skills across a wide range of areas.
About You
At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with your Bachelor’s degree in Town Planning or Geography, we’d love to receive your application if you are:
* A Perseverer – You stay composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.
* An Adapter – You remain calm in new and changing situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
* A Focused Individual – You focus on what matters, tuning out distractions to perform effectively in any situation.
* A Collaborator – You work effectively with lots of different people, considering others’ perspectives to shape better outcomes.
* An Eager Learner – You learn from your experiences and the world around you, using this knowledge to anticipate how situations may unfold.
Working Pattern
We ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week to ensure you receive sufficient time with your team and the appropriate level of support.
What We Can Offer You
* 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, Early Careers peer group, and wider Employee Resource Group (ERG) network
About Stantec
The Stantec community unites more than 32,000 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, while keeping 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.
Equal Employment Opportunity and Inclusion
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants and prohibits 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.
Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all, and reasonable adjustments will be provided during the recruitment process upon request.
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