Are you passionate about landscape planning, landscape assessments and sustainable masterplanning? Are you looking for opportunities to work on interesting projects? Are you ready to take your career to the next level in landscape consultancy?

Our growing Landscape Architecture team has exciting opportunities (from Senior Architect/Planner to Associate Director) for experienced and enthusiastic Landscape Architects with Landscape Planning and LVIA experience to join us working on a broad range of prestigious landscape projects across the UK.

These are fantastic opportunities for you to further develop your career, contributing to a wide range of 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.

Your responsibilities will include carrying out landscape/townscape and visual impact assessments (LVIAs), providing strategic analysis and strategic green infrastructure advice and contributing to landscape-led masterplanning. Whilst landscape planning is the core focus of the roles, you will have the opportunity to continue to utilise your landscape design skills.

You will work as part of our collaborative UK Landscape Architecture team, which includes senior colleagues and landscape planning and design specialists in our hub offices of Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, London, Reading, Warrington and Edinburgh. We’re a friendly, inclusive and supportive team that values integrity, curiosity, creativity and shared success and which believes in providing suitable challenges for personal and team growth.

We believe that it is our people and their individual talents that make us special, with everyone encouraged to grow and flourish both personally and professionally with genuine career opportunities. You’ll be part of a culture that empowers you to contribute meaningfully and shape your role in a way that aligns with your strengths and interests.

These roles can be based in either our Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, London, Reading, Warrington and Edinburgh offices (other offices may be considered), with hybrid working allowing for a mix of in-office and home working. Our offices in London, Birmingham and Bristol are centrally located in the city centre within a short distance of public transport links. Our offices are friendly and sociable places offering a supportive working environment.

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

You may already be a CMLI or currently be progressing on the Landscape Institute Pathway to Chartership (P2C). Support and mentoring will be provided for P2C development for those that require it.

You will have a track record of relevant work experience in a landscape architecture practice or working on landscape projects within a multi-disciplinary consultancy and experience of completing LVIAs and other aspects of landscape planning.

You will have good knowledge of current UK planning and environmental assessment legislation. You will have the ability to develop designs, write reports, and be confident working with industry software.

We create a working environment that offers flexibility, adopting a hybrid approach to agile working and offer a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, private healthcare and a flexi-benefits package allowing you to choose benefits that are truly valuable to you.

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.

At Stantec we want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all. If you need any support or require adjustments to be made then please contact careers.UK@stantec.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.