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Change the World.\nAt AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.\nThere has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.\nWe're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.\n Start here. Grow here.\nAt AECOM, our diverse Town Planning team is seeking an experienced Principal Planning Consultant to join our busy Environment business in Ireland. We are looking to expand our Town Planning team in our Dublin or Cork offices, with a flexible hybrid working model.\nAs one of the world’s leading multidisciplinary consultancies, AECOM offers the opportunity to work alongside leading experts across a wide range of disciplines, both locally and internationally. You will contribute to complex, high-profile projects while developing your expertise and progressing your career.\nWe are passionate about delivering innovative and effective planning solutions that support complex projects and help shape sustainable communities and infrastructure.\nOur team has an impressive portfolio of experience delivering major linear infrastructure projects, and we are currently supporting multiple planning applications across a diverse range of sectors, including rail, water, transport, data centres, electricity transmission and thermal generation.\nBy joining AECOM, you will have the opportunity to work on significant projects for leading clients, including EirGrid, Uisce Éireann, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, the National Transport Authority (NTA) and many others.\nIf you are an experienced planning professional looking to take the next step in your career, we would love to hear from you.\nJoin us and help shape the future of infrastructure in Ireland.\nHere’s what you’ll do:\nPlanning Applications - Prepare, submit and manage planning applications, including the coordination of supported technical and environmental inputs and liaison with key stakeholders.\nDue Diligence - Undertake due diligence, site reviews and pre-application discussions on major proposals, being proactive and problem-solving to achieve deliverable outcomes.\nPlanning Advice - Provide technical planning advice to ensure planning and project documentation meets regulatory standards and reflects current legislation, policy and case law.\nTendering - Lead and support commercially competitive tender proposals and bids.\nCome & Grow with Us.\nAECOM is a top ten Planning consultancy by size, employing around 80 Planners in Ireland and the UK, practicing in all areas of the discipline. AECOM is also a worldwide leader in environmental and engineering consultancy and working as a planning consultant within AECOM means access to some of the most high profile and prestigious development projects in the country, working with colleagues operating at the cutting edge of their disciplines. At AECOM, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued.\nEnjoy the Perks.\nAt AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.\nReady to push the limits of what’s possible?\nHere’s what we’re looking for:\nProven experience in leading planning consents for major infrastructure projects under a range of consenting regimes, ideally within the energy, transport or rail sectors.\nHigh level of ability to prioritise and manage a workload whilst working flexibly.\nExcellent knowledge, understanding and application of current and emerging planning legislation.\nDirect ROI Planning experience\nExperience managing and working as part of integrated multi-disciplinary teams\nStrong report writing, verbal and presentation skills with experience in reviewing the work of others to ensure quality and consistency.\nCorporate member of the Irish Planning Institute, Chartered Member of the RTPI or equivalent. \nFull current driving license and access to a form of transport to carry out the duties of the post.\nInterested in the role or curious about life at AECOM? Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to explore our AECOM voices, employee stories, latest projects, and much more!\nFor further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Anne-Marie Flynn\nAt AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.\nAbout AECOM\nAECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.\nFreedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity\nYou will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.\nYou will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.\nAECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.\nJoin us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. 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