Graduate Landscape Architect - Infrastructure - Bristol/Reading/Manchester/Edinburgh - 2026

With Every Community, Stantec Redefines What’s Possible.

Your Role

Ready to make a real impact as a Graduate Landscape Architect? We are seeking someone who believes passionately in landscape architecture's power to address climate change and who wants to grow their career with one of the world’s most sustainable companies. If you’re looking for a role that truly makes a difference to both communities and the environment, with excellent progression opportunities, consider joining us in Bristol, Reading, Manchester, or Edinburgh.

Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.

Responsibilities

We are a Registered Practice with the Landscape Institute. Our team comprises experienced chartered landscape architects and those on their Pathway to Chartership, offering a supportive and expert environment. You will engage with a wide variety of projects across diverse sectors, including strategic land, regeneration, residential, commercial, mixed-use, renewable energy, highways, and water. Your work will involve preparing assessments (landscape, townscape, visual), offering pre-master planning advice, and developing designs for environmental mitigation, green infrastructure, and overall landscapes.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will be varied and hands-on:

• Conducting site visits and visual surveys
• Gathering background data
• Preparing all necessary drawings, plans, sections, and sketches
• Contributing written input to appraisals, technical notes, and reports
• Working on everything from landscape planning and LVIAs to full landscape designs
• Collaborating with our in-house ecologists, engineers, and planners, integrating landscape solutions with other built environment disciplines

About You

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with your Bachelor’s or PGDip/Master’s in Landscape Architecture, 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

Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!

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

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.

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.

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.