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Graduate Landscape Architect - Community Development - Edinburgh - 2027
StantecEdinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£47,600
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role may qualify for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2451 is an eligible occupation, but we classified this role with low confidence (48% match). If the code is right — and Stantec is a licensed sponsor — it should qualify, but double-check the occupation eligibility rules against the actual role.
About the role
The Opportunity
With Every Community, Stantec Redefines What’s Possible.
Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.
The Opportunity
Join our 2027 (Autumn) Graduate Programme as a Graduate Landscape Architect in our Edinburgh office, where you'll be part of a market-leading Community Development discipline.
Ready to make a real impact as a Graduate Landscape Architect? Join one of the world's most sustainable companies and help shape places that positively influence communities, biodiversity and climate resilience. Based in Edinburgh, you'll have the opportunity to develop your career within a supportive team of experienced chartered landscape architects and professionals working towards chartership.
As a Registered Practice with the Landscape Institute, we are committed to developing the next generation of landscape architects through mentoring, professional development and hands-on project experience. You'll work across a diverse portfolio of projects spanning strategic land, regeneration, residential, commercial, mixed-use, renewable energy, highways and water sectors.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you'll contribute to projects from concept through to delivery, supporting the preparation of landscape, townscape and visual assessments, advising on masterplanning, and helping to develop innovative landscape designs. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience across all stages of project delivery while helping create sustainable, resilient and inspiring environments for future generations.
Review the career journey of one of our graduate landscape architect here:- My Stantec Story: Building a career as landscape architect with Aakanksha Khatri
Your Impact
With Every Community, Stantec Redefines What’s Possible.
Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.
The Opportunity
Join our 2027 (Autumn) Graduate Programme as a Graduate Landscape Architect in our Edinburgh office, where you'll be part of a market-leading Community Development discipline.
Ready to make a real impact as a Graduate Landscape Architect? Join one of the world's most sustainable companies and help shape places that positively influence communities, biodiversity and climate resilience. Based in Edinburgh, you'll have the opportunity to develop your career within a supportive team of experienced chartered landscape architects and professionals working towards chartership.
As a Registered Practice with the Landscape Institute, we are committed to developing the next generation of landscape architects through mentoring, professional development and hands-on project experience. You'll work across a diverse portfolio of projects spanning strategic land, regeneration, residential, commercial, mixed-use, renewable energy, highways and water sectors.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you'll contribute to projects from concept through to delivery, supporting the preparation of landscape, townscape and visual assessments, advising on masterplanning, and helping to develop innovative landscape designs. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience across all stages of project delivery while helping create sustainable, resilient and inspiring environments for future generations.
Review the career journey of one of our graduate landscape architect here:- My Stantec Story: Building a career as landscape architect with Aakanksha Khatri
Your Impact
As a Graduate Landscape Architect, You'll Gain Hands-on Experience Across a Diverse Range Of Landscape Planning And Design Projects. Working Alongside Experienced Landscape Architects And Multidisciplinary Teams, You Will
Your Impact
This role will help deliver sustainable, resilient infrastructure and community developments that create lasting benefits for people, places and the environment. Working across a range of projects, you will support the planning, design and delivery of infrastructure solutions that enhance communities, promote sustainable growth and improve quality of life. Your work will contribute to addressing key challenges such as climate resilience, resource efficiency and environmental stewardship, helping clients deliver innovative, future-ready solutions that meet the needs of both local communities and wider society.
About You
At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with your Bachelor's or PGDip/Master’s in Landscape Architecture, we’d love to receive your application if you are:
- Undertake site visits, field surveys and landscape assessments.
- Collect and analyse site and environmental data to inform project decisions.
- Prepare drawings, plans, sections, visualisations and technical illustrations.
- Contribute to landscape appraisals, technical notes, reports and Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIAs).
- Support the development of landscape and green infrastructure designs from concept through to delivery.
- Collaborate with in-house ecologists, planners and engineers to develop integrated design solutions.
- Assist in the delivery of projects across sectors including residential, regeneration, renewable energy, highways and water.
Your Impact
This role will help deliver sustainable, resilient infrastructure and community developments that create lasting benefits for people, places and the environment. Working across a range of projects, you will support the planning, design and delivery of infrastructure solutions that enhance communities, promote sustainable growth and improve quality of life. Your work will contribute to addressing key challenges such as climate resilience, resource efficiency and environmental stewardship, helping clients deliver innovative, future-ready solutions that meet the needs of both local communities and wider society.
About You
At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with your Bachelor's or PGDip/Master’s in Landscape Architecture, we’d love to receive your application if you are:
- A Perseverer - You stay composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.
What We Can Offer You
- 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 )
Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs ( Graduate Application FAQs ) if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!
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About Stantec
The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 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.
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.
Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.
At Stantec we want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all. If you need any support or require adjustments to be made then please contact [email protected] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
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.
Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.
At Stantec we want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all. If you need any support or require adjustments to be made then please contact [email protected] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
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Where this offer sits in the market
SOC 2451 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~30k in sampleP25 £37kP75 £55k
£33kmedian £47kgoing rate £48k£55k
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