Current Vacancies: Liverpool

Senior/Associate Planner

What can you expect from DLP?
DLP is one of the UK’s leading employee-owned planning-led practices, providing tailored multidisciplinary advice to our clients across the development sector.
Joining DLP brings with it the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside skilled professionals who will provide you with essential guidance and support to grow your career as a professional planner. You will have the ability to work for a wide variety of clients and projects within both the private and public sectors across the UK and alongside colleagues in the wider DLP Group’s core business sectors which include:

• Planning Research & Analysis
• Masterplanning & Urban Design
• Architecture
• Transport & Infrastructure
• Sustainability Engineering
• Environmental Services

The range of benefits that we offer to our employees includes private healthcare with BUPA, life insurance, company pension with a salary sacrifice option, cycle to work scheme, contributions towards professional subscriptions, and enhanced maternity scheme.

Who are we looking for?
Due to continuing growth, we are looking for a Chartered Town Planner (full member of the RTPI) at the Senior Planner / Associate Planer level to join our friendly and busy team in Liverpool City Centre. Ideally you will have a minimum 5-8 years’ professional experience (in either the private or public sector). You must have a degree in town planning degree or related subject.
You should possess a sound knowledge of the planning system and experience of a wide range of planning issues. You should have good interpersonal communication and relationship management skills, have the ability to manage and prioritise projects on a day-to-day basis and be able to support senior staff on larger projects.
We are looking for candidates who are well motivated and ready to get involved in key projects, instilling high standards of work and building up good, strong client relationships.
You must be willing to assist senior staff in maintaining positive relationships with existing clients and growing the company’s client base. You must therefore be willing to undertake a business development and marketing role alongside project-based work. This will include networking, face-to-face meetings with potential new clients, and assistance with preparing client briefing notes and sharing information / intel.

Supporting your professional development
We support our staff with a very active training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme which is intended to educate, inform and invite feedback.
Our CPD programme involves presentations from both external speakers and internal staff members, with all staff encouraged to present on a relevant topic to develop their presentation skills.
Every staff member is formally reviewed at least annually. During this process, achievements and future targets are reflected upon and discussed – always with the aim of learning and moving forward.

Supporting your wellbeing
As an Employee Ownership Trust, our staff, their wellbeing, and their personal and professional development is of paramount importance to us.
We are committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and wellbeing throughout DLP and as an organisation we seek to:
• Actively contribute towards enhancing social value, including through our impacts on the environment, communities, local economies and innovation.
• Promote mental, physical and social wellbeing in the workplace.
• Actively promote, celebrate and enhance diversity across the organisation.
• Cultivate and promote an inclusive culture that maximises the talent, skills and diversity within our workforce.

What do we expect from you?
As a Senior or Associate Planner you will work under the supervision of senior staff but also be given the opportunity to lead on projects. You will:

Ecologist/BNG Specialist

Cass Design Consultants is an award-winning multi-disciplinary design practice with an established reputation for the delivery of high-quality design solutions. Cass is part of the DLP Consulting Group Ltd, a leading multi-disciplinary consultancy with offices in London, Bedford, Liverpool, Sheffield, Bristol, Milton Keynes, Rugby and Nottingham.

Due to a rapidly increasing workload, we are seeking a talented ecologist to join our team and lead the expansion of national ecology services across the Group. This presents a real opportunity for career advancement within a collaborative and friendly practice offering the full spectrum of landscape, planning and design services. Based ideally in our busy studio in central Liverpool, you will be involved in a diverse range of projects across the whole of the UK.
The DLP Consulting Group is an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT). The culture, welfare, support and development of our staff is of great importance, and it is key that candidates are closely aligned with those values.

All eligible staff members become part ‘owners’ of the business which brings the added benefit of an element of bonuses being tax free and a future potential payment based on their part ownership of the Company.

The Company offers a competitive reward package including professional membership fees, employee mentoring scheme, employer contribution pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, death in service, private health insurance, employee assistance programme and other fringe benefits including supporting staff undertaking local volunteer work.

Role Requirements