Graduate Urban Designer - Birmingham - 2025

As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and fellow graduates, developing your urban design and masterplanning expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment. You will contribute to a broad range of projects, including medium and large scale residential and mixed-use development masterplans and layouts for UK projects. You will gain proficiency in AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketchup and Microsoft Packages.

As a collaborative team member, you will develop your understanding of masterplanning and urban design principles, whilst delivering high-quality designs across various applications, conducting site analysis, producing design materials, and contributing to early-stage planning and project management.

Take a look at our Urban Design business line:- Masterplanning & Urban Design (stantec.com), and review the career journey of our people:- Stantec | Career Stories, 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 your Bachelor's degree in Urban Design or Town Planning, 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 receive 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)