Senior Associate Director - Town Planning

Overview

Lead planning & consents for infrastructure projects across multiple sectors.

Key Responsibilities

• team development
• consent management
• project planning
• technical leadership
• legislation knowledge
• report preparation

Tasks

-Manage the growth of your teams capability footprint and the portfolio of solutions by fostering and promoting a culture of development, support and opportunity. -Coordinate and manage consent and planning applications. -Develop and implement rigorous project management techniques to plan and prioritise the completion of tasks and deliverables on time and to budget. -Technical leadership, providing subject matter expert level direction and support, to facilitate successful consenting of projects -Maintain a high level and indepth knowledge of legislation (national and local) planning policies, including their application through infrastructure projects, policies and programmes. -Scope, develop and implement appropriate consenting routes. -Manage the preparation, quality, governance and submittal of a wide range of reports, including development plan, planning appraisals and Environmental Impact Assessment reports and appeals.

Requirements

• town planning
• rtpi
• eia
• commercial awareness
• stakeholder mgmt
• policy knowledge

What You Bring

-Established ability to identify relevant environmental, social and economic policy and legislation. -A sound and demonstrable knowledge of Irish town planning legislation and practice. -An ability to present technical information to non-technical audiences. -Planning qualification (IPI or RTPI). -Experience of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and how it applies to major development projects. -Experience of bidding/tendering for internal and external opportunities and strong commercial awareness. -Recognized leader in Town Planning and Consents. -Excellent stakeholder and client management skills, able to build collaborative working relationships.

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About Jacobs

-Headquartered in Dallas, it has evolved into a global powerhouse delivering consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery services. -Its portfolio spans transformative projects—clean water systems, data centers, rail expansions, offshore wind roadmaps, and wastewater plants. -Specialising in advanced manufacturing, cities & places, energy, environmental, national security & defense, life sciences, transportation and water sectors. -Jacobs has reshaped itself via key moves—spinning off government services, acquiring CH2M in 2017, and exiting traditional oil & gas units. -Projects often tackle high-stakes, complex challenges: wastewater treatment in Vancouver, LIRR station upgrades, and AI data centres in Portugal. -Unusually, the firm shifted its HQ from California to Dallas in 2016 to align with its expanding national and global reach.

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