Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
We’re looking for an Associate / Associate Director to join our growing minerals and waste team. This role offers a challenging growth opportunity to direct, manage and deliver minerals and waste inputs to a wide range of projects for a diverse client base. Our projects are varied and at the leading edge of professional practice, providing an excellent chance to use your experience to further develop your career and help guide and shape our continued growth. This is a strategic position with responsibility for winning work, leading projects and shaping sector growth, working on complex and high-profile schemes. Key responsibilities include leading and delivering minerals and waste planning projects across the full lifecycle, providing expert planning and environmental advice to clients and project teams, managing project performance (technical, commercial, H&S and quality), building strong client relationships, supporting business development activities, contributing to bids and frameworks, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver sustainable outcomes, and mentoring colleagues to foster an inclusive team culture.

Experience
- Degree (or equivalent experience) in planning, environmental or related discipline
- Proven experience delivering minerals and waste projects in the UK
- Strong understanding of UK planning systems and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Ability to lead projects and manage client relationships
- Excellent communication and report writing skills
- Proven people management experience with a track record of developing and upskilling internal teams

About you
- Strategic thinker with strong leadership skills
- Collaborative and able to build strong client and team relationships
- Motivated to contribute to business development and sector growth
- Committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive team culture

Qualifications
- Chartered or working towards chartership (RTPI, IEMA, RICS or similar) is desirable
- Experience in business development and winning work is advantageous
- Knowledge of emerging policy and stakeholder engagement is beneficial