Town Planner - Environmental

Opportunity

Stantec is looking to add a Town Planner to its expanding planning function in Castlebar, County Mayo. The role sits within a team delivering a wide mix of development management, infrastructure, environmental and strategic planning work, with a strong focus on projects in the Water and Energy sectors. You will help prepare planning submissions, shape planning approaches, and support engagement with stakeholders while working alongside professionals from different disciplines.

This position offers the chance to build your career with an established international consultancy and contribute to projects that advance sustainable development and essential infrastructure across Ireland.

Role overview

In this position, you will support the delivery of planning work across Ireland, especially in infrastructure, environmental and development planning. Core tasks include preparing planning applications, drafting reports and strategies, and offering planning guidance to clients and multidisciplinary project teams.

You will also work closely with planning authorities, clients and other stakeholders on projects linked to the Water and Energy sectors, as well as broader development and strategic planning assignments. The role includes active involvement in project delivery, stakeholder coordination and business development, while giving you scope to strengthen your technical and professional expertise in a supportive team setting.

Impact of the role

As part of the planning team, you will contribute to sustainable community growth and the delivery of critical infrastructure across Ireland. Your work will help ensure planning applications, infrastructure schemes and strategic initiatives progress smoothly through the planning system.

By collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and engaging with stakeholders and planning authorities, you will help develop planning solutions that consider environmental, social and economic factors. In doing so, you will support projects that create long-term value for communities, clients and the environment.

Candidate profile

The ideal candidate is a planning professional with 3 to 7 years of experience in town planning, environmental planning, infrastructure planning or a similar field. You should have a strong grasp of Irish planning legislation and policy, along with practical experience producing planning applications, reports and supporting documents.

You will also be comfortable working in multidisciplinary teams and communicating with clients, planning authorities and stakeholders to deliver strong project outcomes.

Why join Stantec

Stantec describes its workplace as friendly, inclusive and collaborative, with a people-first culture. The company highlights its recognition among Glassdoor's top 50 companies to work for in 2025 and Corporate Knights' top 10 most sustainable companies in 2025.

Employees receive industry-leading training and development, paid professional subscriptions, and a progression plan that supports chartered status. The team environment is designed to be supportive and collaborative, and the business is growing across Ireland.

Additional benefits include a competitive salary, enhanced pension, annual leave with the option to buy or sell extra days, private medical insurance, and group income protection and life assurance as standard.

About Stantec / Ryan Hanley

Ryan Hanley, now part of Stantec, is presented as a strong option for people starting or advancing an engineering career. The business operates from Dublin, Galway, Castlebar and Cork, and is recruiting team players with experience in areas such as water and wastewater treatment process and network design, integrated network management, structural design, site development, road and bridge engineering, project management and administration.

The company describes itself as dynamic and well regarded, with a working culture that values teamwork, employee ideas and strong performance. It also notes that it has received silver Investors in Diversity accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity in recognition of its commitment to quality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.