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Meet Lucy May

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After completing her undergraduate degree in Town Planning, Lucy joined Jacobs in 2016 as a Graduate Urban Designer where she was sponsored and supported by Jacobs to undertake a part-time master’s in urban design. Lucy has since had a very agile career, recently finishing two years in the Growth and Sales team as a Sales Operational Professional and now working with the Town Planning team, transferring her knowledge to win new exciting opportunities for teams in Water & Environment.

As Senior Town Planner on both small and large infrastructure projects, Lucy works with specialists in town & country planning, development consent orders, U.K. Parliament Hybrid Bills, marine planning, national & local policy support, local planning, city-wide strategies, socio-economic assessments and master planning.

Passionate about inclusion and diversity, Lucy recently organized and chaired a Royal Town Planning Institute and Women in Planning event to discuss inclusive spaces and the associated barriers and opportunities. She also organized a trip to Sierra Leone in 2019, taking seven Jacobs colleagues with relevant technical disciplines to help masterplan, design and implement small infrastructure schemes in a new town including flood defenses and a football field.

Lucy May and students at a STEAM event at the London Transport Museum

“The power of engaging career networks has enabled me to have three different careers within Jacobs in less than five years. I’ve met so many interesting people throughout my agile career who have encouraged me and provided me with many exciting opportunities I’d never imagined I could do.”