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 and the practice supports a mix of office and home working.

Our well established and busy Landscape Planning team have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Landscape Planner to join their team to work on a broad range of prestigious landscape projects across the country. This is an opportunity to work collaboratively within the Landscape team, including senior colleagues and technical and design specialists in London, Bristol, Birmingham and Reading and across the wider practice. As a result, the successful candidate will benefit from the expertise of a range of skilled and experienced practitioners and develop as a well-rounded professional.

About you

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.

You will ideally have experience in the following areas:

• Preliminary landscape and visual appraisals to inform the development process (assessing landscape and visual opportunities and constraints of site and project brief, through desk-based 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 designations such as Green Belts and Strategic Gaps

• Landscape Capacity Studies and character assessments

• Representations to Local plans

• Internal and external business development

Whilst the focus of the role is on landscape planning, the successful candidate will have an opportunity to continue to develop their landscape design abilities.

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.

For more information, please contact Katrina Wheadon (Talent Acquisition Specialist).

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&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

About Stantec

Stantec is a top-tier global consultancy that designs with communities in mind. 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 comprehensive 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.

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.

For more information on Stantec UK Inclusion & Diversity approach please visit:

Inclusion & Diversity (stantec.com)

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