Graduate Landscape Architect - Infrastructure

The Opportunity Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.

Your Role Ready to make a real impact as a Graduate Landscape Architect? We’re 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. 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’ll 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, and preparing all necessary drawings, plans, sections, and sketches. You’ll contribute written input to appraisals, technical notes, and reports, working on everything from landscape planning and LVIAs to full landscape designs. Crucially, you’ll collaborate with our in‑house ecologists, engineers, and planners, integrating landscape solutions with other built environment disciplines.

About You 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. 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.