Planning Technician

TerraQuest

Role: Planning Technician

Location: Birmingham or Belfast in line with our Agile Working Policy. You will need to be able to work from our Birmingham or Belfast office 2 days per week/office to be attended as often as business needs require.

Salary: Competitive

Who we are...

TerraQuest Solutions Ltd is an awardwinning and marketleading specialist provider of planning land property and business solutions. We are an established and trusted organisation that is renowned for its expertise in providing innovative and costeffective solutions to both public and private sectors. Our team delivers bespoke flexible and efficient services through a processorientated delivery structure. We pride ourselves on strong customer relationships evidenced by the high proportion of referrals and repeat business.

Why work with us

We are a Living Wage Foundation accredited employer committed to supporting the wellbeing and development of all our people. With competitive salaries enhanced Family Friendly policies; a fabulous suite of benefits (including: Pension; Life Assurance; Employee Assistance Programme; option to buy additional annual leave in addition to 25 days plus Bank Holidays); true flexibility with our Agile Working approach and superb training and development opportunities we really care about our team!

What we need...

Due to a period of sustained growth we are looking to recruit a Planning Technician to join our Delivery Team.

Reporting to the Project Manager and Assistant Project Manager and working within Professional Services Team the Planning Technician will be required to register and validate a range of planning applications including Other Minor and possibly Major applications as part of a team delivering full end to end or capacitybased planning validations (PAVS) services for Local Planning Authorities.

What you will be doing

• To process planning application validations against a 24 or 48hour turnaround target and to make the decision as to whether the application is invalid or valid (referring to the Senior Planning Technician or Assistant Project Manager where necessary for guidance
• To negotiate amendments to application submissions by communicating with the applicant/agent via telephone email letter

• Checking of additional information submitted for planning applications.
• Checking/identifying consultation on planning applications.
• Allocating applications to planning officers based on schema.
• Using the Councils backoffice system to update applications and conduct GIS checks.
• Answering queries from applicants/agents regarding applications
• To meet all daily production targets and update project documentation including Daily Production and Quality Logs.

What we are looking for

Candidate experience and skills required:

• Relevant bachelors degree or equivalent within a planning discipline
• At least 6 months experience of the planning applications subject area and experience working within Planning Authority/Private Sector
• Candidates to have at least 1 years experience of the planning applications subject area and experience working within Planning Authority/Private Sector
• Ability to read/understand plans
• Able to plan the days workload from the outset and make appropriate adjustments when required
• Ability to work in close cooperation with team colleagues
• Confident in dealing with difficult customers and achieving positive outcomes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Office Word Excel Outlook
• Be able to work to deadlines and within a production team environment
• Have attention to accuracy and detail in performing own tasks and to quality check others work
• A cando attitude consistently delivering to time quality and cost.
  Ability to deliver excellent customer service at all times.

Please apply for more information and please do not be put off if you do not have all the experience and skills required. If you have the majority of skills and relevant experience we would still like to hear from you!