Associate/Senior Landscape Architect

Stantec Consulting International Ltd.; City of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering consultancy is looking for an Associate/Senior Landscape Architect in Cambridge, UK. This role focuses on leading landscape projects, conducting impact assessments, and collaborating with teams. It offers hybrid working and various benefits including healthcare and a pension scheme. Ideal candidates will have skills in landscape assessments and design, and a passion for sustainable solutions.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Life assurance

Private healthcare

Flexi-benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience with preliminary landscape and visual appraisals.
• Ability to create conceptual and strategic design sketches.
• Knowledge of Landscape Capacity and Sensitivity Studies.

Responsibilities

• Conduct landscape/townscape and visual impact assessments.
• Utilize landscape design skills while focusing on landscape planning.
• Work collaboratively with technical and design specialists.

Skills

Landscape and visual impact assessments

Collaborating across teams

Strategic assessments of designations

Job description

Overview

Our Landscape team have a new opportunity for an Associate/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 offers the chance to develop your career, leading on and contributing to 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.

Responsibilities

• Carrying out landscape/townscape and visual impact assessments and providing strategic analysis and detailed design advice.
• Utilising landscape design skills alongside landscape planning focus.
• Collaborating across the UK Landscape team, including senior colleagues and technical and design specialists in hub offices (Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, London, Reading and Warrington).
• Working from either London, Birmingham or Cambridge offices with hybrid working to mix in-office and home working.

About you

To be considered for this opportunity you will need to demonstrate skills and experience in 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 seek a friendly, inclusive, and supportive culture with growing responsibilities and genuine career opportunities. We offer a hybrid working approach and a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, private healthcare and a flexi-benefits package.

Reasonable adjustments

We are an inclusive employer and want to ensure all applicants have equal opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support or reasonable adjustment you may need during the recruitment process (for example extra assessment time, visual adjustment, special access request).

Please contact the talent team if reasonable adjustments are required.

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About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 33,000 employees in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide solutions, translating clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We are guided by clean growth, support for radical changes in the economy and meeting the needs of future communities.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants 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 recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, or any other aspect 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, please contact [e-mail] and we will discuss how we can support you.

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