Associate Landscape Architect - Landscape Planning

Stantec Consulting International Ltd.; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking an Associate Landscape Architect to work on prestigious landscape projects across the UK. The role involves conducting landscape assessments and strategic design analysis while collaborating with a skilled team. This position offers hybrid working options and opportunities for professional growth in a supportive environment with comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Life assurance

Private healthcare

Flexi-benefits package

Responsibilities

• Conduct landscape and visual impact assessments.
• Provide strategic design analysis and advice.
• Collaborate with technical and design specialists.

Skills

Preliminary landscape and visual appraisals

Landscape and visual impact assessments

Conceptual and strategic design sketches

Townscape assessments

Strategic assessments of designations

Landscape Capacity and Sensitivity Studies

Input to Vision Documents and Design Codes

Job description

Overview

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.

Collaboration

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.

Location and hybrid working

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

Culture and benefits

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.

How to apply

For more information, please contact Andrew Trueman (Talent Acquisition Manager), [e-mail]

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 Andrew or a member of our talent team (Careers.UK&[e-mail])if reasonable adjustments are required. We are very happy to assist.

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