Senior Landscape Planner - Bristol, United Kingdom - Stantec

Stantec

Verified Company

Bristol, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The central Bristol Office is made up of approximately 50 professionals.

It is an established and successful multidisciplinary office that includes Urban Design/Masterplanning, Architecture, Landscape Planning and Design, Town Planning, EIA and Graphic Communications.

The office is open plan and benefits from a friendly and sociable atmosphere.

This is a unique opportunity for the right individual to develop their career, working on and contributing to a wide range of projects varying in scale and sector, including prestigious urban regeneration, new town settlements, tall buildings, strategic, residential/mixed use, infrastructure, solar and energy projects at various stages through the planning process.

The focus of the role is on providing Landscape and Townscape Planning input to inform design, reporting on landscape/townscape and visual impact and to provide strategic and detailed design advice on prestigious schemes.

About you

Preliminary landscape and visual appraisals to inform the development process (assessing landscape and visual opportunities and constraints of site and project brief, through deskbased research, site visits, planning authority and stakeholder consultations as required) and advice to project team and / or client.
Baseline landscape and visual text for promotional Vision documents
Landscape and visual impact assessments
Conceptual and strategic design sketches as appropriate
Townscape and visual impact assessments and tall building assessments
LVIA/TVIA chapters for inclusion in Environmental Statements
Strategic assessments of landscape designated land such as Green Belts and Strategic Gaps
Landscape Capacity Studies and character assessments
Representations to Local plans

To be successful in this role, you will:

Produce reports, undertake site work and oversee preparation of illustrative material including briefing landscape technicians
Work as both a team member and a mentor to less experienced colleagues where required
Work cooperatively with colleagues throughout the practice, contribute to activities within own team and guide and support less experienced colleagues where relevant
Brief junior colleagues for the preparation of supporting illustrative and photographic material
Project manage within agreed timescales and fees, and oversee less experienced team members working on smaller projects
Have strong graphic, verbal and written communication skills to communicate ideas in a clear and engaging way
Have good design skills and an understanding of the design process
Have an aspiration to progress within your career and a commitment to ongoing professional development
Be able to organise your own time
Carry out day to day project management
Communicate with other professionals as required by each project brief
Contribute to production of documents and briefings
Take responsibility for quality of own work, engage positively with review by others, and consider ways of improving work processes
Have a broad interest in both strategic landscape planning and design
Possess the skills to communicate ideas in a clear and engaging way
Have experience in the use of ZTV to support visual analysis
Draft scope and fee proposals
Ideally be a chartered member of the landscape institute with strong to extensive experience in the above (dependant on the level of position sought)

We believe that it is our people and their individual talents that make us special.

We work within a friendly, inclusive, and supportive culture and one of high support and high challenge, where we are not afraid to take on new and greater responsibilities and are each individually encouraged to grow and flourish both personally and professionally, with genuine career opportunities based on merit.

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.

About Stantec

From our earliest days as Architects and Planners pioneering the profession, to today where we span all sectors and numerous specialisms, we have sought to be leaders in our field.

We nurture passionate teams who are focused on creating sustainable communities that meet the needs of the people who live, work and play in them.

Now, we join Stantec, a 25,000 strong team of designers, engineers, scientists, environmentalists, project managers and economists, enabling us to expand our inter-disciplinary offer even further, delivering broader skills and global experience to support both public and private sector clients throughout their entire project's lifecycle.

Our inter-disciplinary teams combine high quality, innovative and sustainable design with strong commercial awareness and are skilled at