Associate Landscape Architect - Landscape Planning

Our Landscape team have a new opportunity for a **Associate 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 for you 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. Whilst 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. As a result, you will benefit from the expertise of a range of skilled and experienced practitioners and develop as a well-rounded professional. This role can be based from either our **London** or **Birmingham** offices, with hybrid working allowing for a mix of in-office and home working. Our offices in London and Birmingham 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 We work within a friendly, inclusive, and supportive culture, one that is both supportive and provides a suitable challenge. We believe that it is our people and their individual talents that make us special, there will be new and greater responsibilities with each individual encouraged to grow and flourish both personally and professionally with genuine career opportunities. 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. **Reasonable adjustments** We are an inclusive employer and want to ensure all our 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 to the best of your ability during the recruitment process (for example extra assessment time, visual adjustment, special access request). Please contact our talent team (Careers.UK&I@stantec.com) if reasonable adjustments are required. We are very happy to assist. \#StantecLandscape **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.comand we will talk to you about how we can support you. **ReqID:** 7222