**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.** **Your 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 exciting and creative 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 in the residential, commercial and environmental sectors. You will also assist with project coordination and management, ensuring projects run smoothly. The Town Planning team principally focus on large scale, complex mixed use and residential-led developments across the South-West, including new communities, garden villages and exciting regeneration projects as well as environmental projects and retirement housing schemes. We focus upon interdisciplinary working, with a real opportunity to develop your understanding and skills in a wide range of areas. Take a look at our Town Planning business line:- Town Planning (stantec.com), and review the career journey of one of our Town Planners:- My Stantec Story: Building a career in planning with Joseph Lynch **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’re able to 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. **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.** **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 and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups) Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation. **Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs (** **Graduate Application FAQs** **) if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!** **\#NextGen #StantecCareers #UKGraduate** **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, 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. Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial 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. At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team. **ReqID:** 7709