Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career; with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
At M Group Telecom, we’re enabling and enhancing telecom networks, playing a lead role in the delivery of our tech enabled future. We deliver full network cycle services for fixed, private and mobile operators.
You’ll be working within mobile networks where we keep the country connected through the survey, design, installation and maintenance of private 5G networks, small cells, supporting Smart Cities & Connected infrastructure.
Want to come and be a part of it?
We're looking for a motivated and ambitious Town Planner to join our growing team and help deliver planning solutions for telecommunications and infrastructure projects across the UK. This role offers the opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects, develop your planning expertise, and build strong relationships with clients and stakeholders. While you'll be based from one of our offices in West Byfleet, Diseworth or Warwick, we'll also consider applications from candidates located further afield for the right person, provided you're able to travel when required.
What You'll Be Doing
As a Town Planner, you'll work closely with acquisition specialists, designers, engineers and surveyors to help identify, assess and secure the most appropriate sites and design solutions for our clients. You'll undertake planning research, site appraisals and feasibility assessments, helping to identify opportunities and navigate potential planning constraints to support successful project delivery.
You'll play a key role in managing planning applications from submission through to determination, preparing high-quality planning and appeal submissions and developing practical planning solutions that meet both client objectives and local authority requirements. We'll rely on you to build positive relationships with local authority planners, stakeholders and communities, supporting consultations and helping to address planning-related queries throughout the project lifecycle.
You'll also attend site visits to advise on planning considerations and the siting and appearance of telecommunications infrastructure, monitor the progress of planning submissions, and attend planning committee meetings where required. Where applications are refused, you'll assess the reasons for refusal and provide recommendations on appeal opportunities or alternative site and design solutions.
As part of a collaborative team, you'll provide planning advice to clients and colleagues, stay up to date with planning legislation and industry developments, and develop a strong understanding of client-specific requirements and processes. We'll encourage you to build lasting client relationships and contribute to the continued success and growth of the business.
What You'll Bring
- An RTPI-accredited degree or a degree in a planning-related discipline, such as Planning, Urban Design & Landscape, Transport Planning or Environmental Studies.
- Experience within the mobile telecommunications sector would be advantageous.
- A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel as required.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- A proactive, self-motivated and forward-thinking approach.
- The ability to prioritise workloads, manage competing demands and adapt to changing circumstances.
- A collaborative mindset and a strong team-player attitude.
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills.
- Good IT skills, including experience using Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
- A desire to develop your planning expertise and deliver outstanding outcomes for clients.
If you're looking to develop your career in planning within a supportive and growing business, where you'll have the opportunity to work on exciting projects and make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include.
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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