Graduate Landscape Architect - Community Development - Bristol - 2027

Join our 2027 (Autumn) Graduate Programme as a Graduate Landscape Architect in our Bristol office, where you'll be part of a market‑leading Community Development discipline. Ready to make a real impact? Join one of the world's most sustainable companies and help shape places that enhance communities, biodiversity and climate resilience.

Based in our Reading office, you’ll become part of a supportive local team of 13 Landscape Architects, connected to a national network of over 50 professionals. Working alongside experienced chartered landscape architects and colleagues progressing toward chartership, you’ll gain hands‑on experience across a diverse range of projects while developing the skills, knowledge and confidence to build a successful career in landscape architecture.

As a Registered Practice with the Landscape Institute, Stantec is 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 through to civic squares, urban parks and 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.

About The Role

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, visualisations 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.

We are committed to supporting employees in achieving relevant professional qualifications and accreditation. The applicable professional qualification for this role is the Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI).

Your Impact

This role will help deliver sustainable, resilient infrastructure and community developments that create lasting benefits for people, places and the environment. Working across a range of projects, you will support the planning, design and delivery of infrastructure solutions that enhance communities, promote sustainable growth and improve quality of life.

Your work will contribute to addressing key challenges such as climate resilience, resource efficiency and environmental stewardship, helping clients deliver innovative, future‑ready solutions that meet the needs of both local communities and wider society.

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, knowledge of the 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

Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.

If you need any support or require adjustments to be made then please contact dwdn@stantec.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

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.

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.