Graduate Landscape Architect - Reading - 2025

Joining Stantec as a graduate will see you working collaboratively with your team and wider cohort. You will develop expertise in landscape design, whilst also building awareness of the broader services offered by Stantec. This role allows you to contribute to high-quality design projects across various project stages, such as creating and shaping the vision of new parks and green spaces and designing and detailing new homes and gardens, whilst also improving your understanding of how landscape informs high quality robust design. You will also having opportunities to visit real life projects as they are designed and delivered.

You will utilise your proficiency in AutoCAD, Sketchup, Photoshop, InDesign, and Revit to support tasks like baseline site analysis, design preparation, and concept development. You will also play a role in the early stages of planning applications and assist with project coordination and management, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget. Throughout your experience, you'll be encouraged to network and build relationships both within and outside the company.

You will join a supportive team with exciting career opportunities, have great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and exciting multi-disciplinary environment.

Take a look at our Landscape service line here:- Landscape Architecture (stantec.com) and see our Stantec Landscape Career Story here:- My Stantec Story: Building a career as landscape architect with Aakanksha Khatri, Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment, supporting inclusion & diversity . We prohibit discrimination on the grounds of demographic background in any condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations, and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

We want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support/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 (e.g. extra assessment time, special access request etc). Please contact Careers.UK&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture / Landscape Design (or similar), we'd love to receive your application if you are:-

• A Curious Mind: You'll be eager to learn and progress your technical knowledge, with a keen interest in your professional development.


• An Adapter: Able to remain calm in new situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.


• An Innovator: You'll love thinking of new ideas as well as spotting and improving current ways of working.


• A Striver: Exhibiting ownership, consistently delivering on tasks and objectives. You'll be motivated and proactive in your tasks, having the desire to make a real difference.


• A Multi-Tasker: Thinking about more than one task at a time, while still maintaining an eye for detail.


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 the appropriate level of support.

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.


• 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 (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)