Overview

Senior Landscape Architect at Stantec. Our Landscape team have a new opportunity for a 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 on and 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 and providing strategic analysis and detailed design advice. While landscape planning is a focus of the role, you will 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 our London, Birmingham or Bristol offices, 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.

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 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 with new and greater responsibilities encouraging growth both personally and professionally. We offer a hybrid approach to agile working and a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, private healthcare and a flexi-benefits package.

How to apply

For more information, please contact Andrew Trueman (Talent Acquisition Manager), [email protected]

Reasonable adjustments
We are an inclusive employer and want to ensure all applicants have equal opportunity. Please inform us of any support or reasonable adjustment you may need to enable you to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process.

Please contact Andrew or a member of our talent team (Careers.UK & [email protected]) if reasonable adjustments are required. We are happy to assist.

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 33,000 employees in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We plan, design, deliver and manage development and infrastructure to support sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities. Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination in recruitment, hiring, promotion, and other employment decisions. We are committed to ensuring equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is essential to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply. If you need support or adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected].