Overview

Our Landscape team has a new opportunity for an Associate/Senior Landscape Architect with Landscape Planning experience to join the team – working on a broad range of prestigious landscape projects across the country.

This role represents a great opportunity to further develop your career, leading and contributing to projects across sectors including urban regeneration, new town settlements, tall buildings, residential/mixed-use greenfield development, commercial, infrastructure and energy projects at various stages of the planning process. You will carry out landscape/townscape and visual impact assessments and provide strategic analysis and detailed design advice. While landscape planning is a focus, you will also have the opportunity to continue to utilise your landscape design skills.

You will work collaboratively across our UK Landscape team, including senior colleagues and technical and design specialists in our hub offices of Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, London, Reading and Warrington. This role can be based from either London, Birmingham or Cambridge offices, with hybrid working allowing for a mix of in-office and home working. Our offices are centrally located with good public transport access and offer a supportive working environment.

Responsibilities

• Preliminary landscape and visual appraisals to inform the development process
• Landscape and visual impact assessments
• Conceptual and strategic design sketches as appropriate
• Townscape and visual impact assessments and tall building assessments
• Strategic assessments of designations such as Green Belts and Strategic Gaps
• Landscape Capacity and Sensitivity Studies and character assessments
• Input to Vision Documents, Design and Access Statements and Design Codes

About You

To be considered for this opportunity you will need to be able to demonstrate your skills and experience within the following areas:

• Preliminary landscape and visual appraisals to inform the development process
• Landscape and visual impact assessments
• Conceptual and strategic design sketches as appropriate
• Townscape and visual impact assessments and tall building assessments
• Strategic assessments of designations such as Green Belts and Strategic Gaps
• Landscape Capacity and Sensitivity Studies and character assessments
• Input to Vision Documents, Design and Access Statements and Design Codes

We work within a friendly, inclusive and supportive culture. We offer opportunities for new and greater responsibilities, with genuine career opportunities and a flexible hybrid working approach. Benefits include a generous pension scheme, life assurance, private healthcare and a flexi-benefits package.

Reasonable adjustments

We are an inclusive employer and want to ensure all applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support or reasonable adjustment you may need as a result of a disability, long-term health condition, neurodiversity or other personal circumstances to enable you to perform at your best during the recruitment process (for example extra assessment time, visual adjustments, or special access requests). Please contact Andrew or a member of our talent team at Careers.UK@stantec.com if reasonable adjustments are required. We are happy to assist.

Stantec is an equal employment opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals and ensure equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 33,000 employees across 450 locations and six continents. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities. Our teams provide solutions that translate our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans and efficient designs based on technical excellence and market insights.

We aim to create a fairer, better tomorrow by delivering clean growth, supporting radical changes in our economy and meeting the needs of future communities. If you are excited by this role but worry your experience may not align exactly, we still encourage you to apply. We strive to make our recruitment process accessible to all; if you need support or adjustments, please contact Careers.UK@stantec.com to discuss how we can assist.