Graduate Landscape Architect 2024 - Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom - Stantec Consulting International Ltd.

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Redefine your personal best

Have you ever thought about joining a Graduate Development Programme where you are part of a global community of 26,000 driven, passionate, and smart professionals?

Our accredited Professional Development Programme sets the standard for training and progression. You'll have a chance to grow and develop as a future leader and innovator at one of the world's most sustainable corporations that is consistently at the forefront of planning, design and delivery of infrastructure and development in the UK.

Start your journey with us, a top tier global consultancy. Redefine your personal best.

The Opportunity

Are you passionate about the role that Landscape Architecture has in addressing climate change? Do you want to work for one of the most sustainable companies in the world and across a wide variety of project types and sectors? Do you want a role which makes a difference to communities and the environment?

We're looking for driven individuals who think differently and are ready to challenge conventional thinking to creatively respond to today's environmental challenges.

We are a Registered Practice with the Landscape Institute, and our team includes chartered landscape architects and associate members of the LI currently on their Pathway to Chartership.

Based in Reading, you'll get to work on a diverse range of projects across different sectors, including strategic land, regeneration, residential, commercial and mixed-use developments, renewable energy infrastructure, highways, water and wastewater schemes. We prepare landscape, townscape and visual assessments, pre-master planning advice, environmental mitigation designs, green infrastructure proposals and landscape designs.

As a Graduate Landscape Architect, you would work with our landscape architects. The typical day to day tasks are varied, and would include:

• Undertaking site visits and visual surveys, taking photographs for reports and assessments and preparing H&S risk assessments
• Collection of background data for projects
• Preparation of supporting drawings, plans, sections and sketches
• Written input to appraisals, technical notes and landscape reports
• Work on all types of projects ranging from landscape planning and LVIAs to landscape design
• Collaboration with our other built environment disciplines on projects, including ecologists, engineers and planners.

About you

• You will have recently completed, or be currently undertaking a postgraduate degree, diploma, or MA in Landscape Architecture. Year-out student candidates will have completed an undergraduate degree in Landscape Architecture.
• Strong writing, graphic and communication skills;
• You'll have enthusiasm, commitment, be self-motivated and well-organised
• Ideally you'll have a working knowledge of AutoCAD, MS Office and Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat.
• GIS abilities, 3D modelling or Sketchup and hand drawn sketching skills will be an advantage.
• Ideally you'll have a clean, full UK driving licence, as you may need to travel for project work.

In addition to submitting your CV and cover letter for this vacancy please submit your portfolio and/or examples of work

Your application journey

There is no closing date on this vacancy. Recruitment is ongoing. We recommend applying as soon as possible as adverts may close if we have sufficient applicants.

Our graduate application process is as follows:

Step 1 . Online Application

Step 2 . Online Video Interview and Aptitude Tests

Step 3 . Face to Face Interview

Step 4 . Offer

For further details on our application process, please visit Graduate Application FAQ )

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 a member of our talent team if reasonable adjustments are required. Our email is Careers.UK& and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

About Stantec

Stantec is a top tier global consultancy, the Stantec community unites approximately 26,000 employees working in over 400 locations across 6 continents.

We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. With around 3,000 people working in integrated regional teams across the UK & Ireland. 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 client's vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insight.

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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Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit 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.

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Land Aid

Stantec has partnered with property sector charity LandAid as one of its corporate partners to join its mission to end youth homelessness.

In 2019/20, an estimated 120,000 young people asked for help from their local council because they were homeless or at risk of homelessness.

It's a problem that LandAid are here to help tackle.

As the Property Industry Charity, LandAid unite over 200 organisations from across the sector, working together to bring an end to youth homelessness.

As a Charitable Trust, they distribute funding to frontline charities supporting the young and homeless – and primarily fund capital projects, such as renovating homes and building bedspaces.

We have seen the incredible impact that can happen when the industry unites and so Stantec are proud to be working alongside LandAid this year.

Together, we can end youth homelessness.

To find out more about LandAid and the amazing work they're doing please visit

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