Senior Landscape Architect

Our Landscape team have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Landscape Architect with Landscape Planning experience to join their team - working on a broad range of prestigious landscape projects across the country. This role represents a great opportunity for you to develop your career, leading on and contributing to a wide range of projects across a variety of sectors - including notable urban regeneration, new town settlements, tall buildings, residential/mixed use, commercial, infrastructure, solar and energy projects at various stages of the planning process. Your responsibilities will include carrying out landscape / townscape and visual impact assessments and providing strategic analysis and detailed design advice. Whilst landscape planning is a focus of the role, you will have the opportunity to continue to develop your landscape design abilities. You will work collaboratively across our UK Landscape teams, including senior colleagues and technical and design specialists in our hub offices of Bristol, Manchester, London, Reading and Warrington. As a result, you will benefit from the expertise of a range of skilled and experienced practitioners and develop as a well-rounded professional. You will be based in our busy, multi-disciplinary Birmingham Office, which is conveniently located within the heart of the city centre (Cherry Street) and has easy access to public transport. It is a friendly and sociable office offering a supportive working environment. Stantec support a hybrid working approach blending a mix of home and office working. About you To be considered for this opportunity you will need to be able to demonstrate your skills and experience within the following areas:

• Preliminary landscape and visual appraisals to inform the development process
• Landscape and visual impact assessments
• Conceptual and strategic design sketches as appropriate
• Townscape and visual impact assessments and tall building assessments
• Strategic assessments of designations such as Green Belts and Strategic Gaps
• Landscape Capacity and Sensitivity Studies and character assessments
• Input to Vision Documents, Design and Access Statements and Design Codes, 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).
  
  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.

We work within a friendly, inclusive, and supportive culture, one that is both supportive and provides a suitable challenge. We believe that it is our people and their individual talents that make us special, there will be new and greater responsibilities with each individual encouraged to grow and flourish both personally and professionally with genuine career opportunities. 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.