Associate / Associate Director – Landscape Planning

Our Landscape team have an exciting opportunity for an Associate / Associate Director with Landscape Planning experience to join our Landscape team – working on a broad range of prestigious landscape projects across the country.

This role represents a great opportunity for you to continue to develop your career with one of the UK’s leading Landscape Planning consultancies – taking the lead on 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 leading on landscape/townscape 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 develop your landscape design abilities.

As a senior member of our team, you will act as a trusted advisor to our clients, providing strategic advice on landscape planning projects and taking the lead on complex landscape projects. You will be a key part of our management team – working collaboratively to support client development activities and providing mentoring and line management to less senior team members.

You will work collaboratively across our UK Planning and Design teams, 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.

The role can be based from either our Birmingham, Bristol or London offices, with hybrid working allowing for a mix of in-office and home working. Our offices in Birmingham, Bristol, and London (Soho Square) are based in the city centre within easy each 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 some of the following areas:

• Providing strategic landscape planning advice to clients in relation to complex and projects across a variety of sectors

• Attendance at Public Enquiries to provide expertise in relation to complex and high profile projects across a variety of sectors

• Acting as mentor and helping develop more junior colleagues

• 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

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, including the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.

For more information, please contact Andrew Trueman (Talent Acquisition Manager), Andrew.Trueman@Stantec.com

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&I@stantec.com) if reasonable adjustments are required. We are very happy to assist.

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About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 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.

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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.

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