Stantec
Graduate Landscape Architect - Community Development - Reading/London - 2027
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The Opportunity
With Every Community, Stantec Redefines What’s Possible.
Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.
The Opportunity
Join our 2027 (Autumn) Graduate Programme as a Graduate Landscape Architect in our Reading or London office, where you'll be part of a market-leading Community Development discipline.
Ready to make a real impact as a Graduate Landscape Architect? Join one of the world's most sustainable companies and help shape places that positively influence communities, biodiversity, and climate resilience. Based in Reading, you'll have the opportunity to develop your career within a supportive team of experienced chartered landscape architects and professionals working towards chartership.
As a Registered Practice with the Landscape Institute, we are committed to developing the next generation of landscape architects through mentoring, professional development, and hands-on project experience. You'll be working on and contributing to a wide range of projects varying in scale and sector, including prestigious urban regeneration, new town settlements, masterplans, civic squares, urban parks, and thrill-seeking adventure parks!
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you'll contribute to projects from concept through to delivery, supporting the preparation of landscape, townscape, and visual assessments, advising on masterplanning, and helping to develop innovative landscape designs. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience across all stages of project delivery while helping create sustainable, resilient, and inspiring environments for future generations.
We are committed to supporting employees in achieving relevant professional qualifications and accreditation. The applicable professional qualification for this role is with the Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI).
Your Impact
Responsibilities
As a Graduate Landscape Architect, you'll support senior members of the Landscape team and collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues across Stantec on a wide variety of projects. Your responsibilities will include:
- Assist with design development, research, and best practice studies across a variety of projects.
- Create graphics, visualizations, and presentation materials to communicate design ideas.
- Support the preparation of design reports and technical documentation.
- Undertake site visits, surveys, and photography to inform project development.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop creative and sustainable design solutions.
- Contribute to projects from initial concept through to detailed design and delivery.
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Take a look at our Landscape Architecture business line here: Landscape Architecture | Stantec, and review the career journey of one of our landscape architects here: My Stantec Story: Building a career as landscape architect with Aakanksha Khatri
About You
At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with your Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Landscape Architecture or Landscape Planning, a knowledge of Auto CAD suite, Adobe Suite would be beneficial. We’d love to receive your application if you are:
- A Perseverer - You stay composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.
- An Adapter - You’re able to remain calm in new and changing situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
- A Focused Individual - You focus on what matters, tuning out distractions to perform effectively in any situation.
- A Collaborator - You work effectively with lots of different people, considering others’ perspectives to shape better outcomes.
- An Eager Learner - You learn from your experiences and the world around you, using this knowledge to anticipate how situations may unfold.
Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support.
What We Can Offer You
- A competitive salary
- Private medical insurance
- A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection, and life assurance
- Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec
- Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership
- A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)
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Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.
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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 prohibits 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 [email protected] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
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