Job Description

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

We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Associate Landscape Architect to join our growing Landscape Architecture team working on a broad range of landscape projects across the UK. Our projects range in scale across energy / renewable energy and resources projects, transport and nationally significant infrastructure projects, commercial, industrial, regeneration and residential schemes.


This role presents a fantastic opportunity for you to take your career as an experienced landscape consultant to the next level, working at the heart of our interdisciplinary teams and providing valued landscape consultancy advice. As part of your role, you will develop your client network, contributing to the project portfolio for the team.


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.


This role is based in our Central Manchester office, with hybrid working allowing for a mix of in-office and home working. 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 strong skills and experience within the following areas:


Preliminary landscape / townscape and visual appraisals to inform the development process

Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments for energy / renewable energy projects, commercial projects and / or regeneration and residential projects

Conceptual and strategic design sketches as appropriate

The ability to work in an interdisciplinary way

Preparation of project scopes and fee proposals for complex development projects

Leading landscape architecture input to projects and mentoring junior staff through your project work

It would be advantageous for you to demonstrate skills and experience in any of the following:


Landscape expert witness experience at planning appeals and / or DCO hearings

Nationally significant infrastructure projects

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 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, including the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.


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About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 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 are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team

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