Landscape Technician (Placement Year)

Our established Landscape team has an exciting opportunity for a Landscape/CAD Technician to join their team to work on 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, Reading and Birmingham and across the wider practice as well as supporting a mix of office and home working. 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.

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. There will be the opportunity for both 2D and 3D CAD work.

About you

To have an impact in the role you will:

• Have completed a Landscape Institute accredited Undergraduate Degree and/or PG Diploma or Masters Programme, or a BCS or City and Guilds Certificate in 2D Computer Aided Design (or similar) OR looking for a placement year opportunity as part of your Landscape Institute accredited qualification.
• Work collaboratively within your team
• Develop Landscape technical knowledge and awareness of other Barton Willmore disciplines and services
• Assist with technical design, documentation, detailing and specification for high quality landscape/public realm detailing
• Researching and presenting design thoughts and ideas
• Supporting the team in the creation of vision documents and supportive illustrative material

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Have strong graphic communication skills to communicate ideas in a clear and engaging way
• Have proficiency in 2D AutoCAD
• Have experience with SketchUp, Photoshop, Illustrator and/or InDesign
• Optionally some experience with GIS will be beneficial
• Be able to organise your own time
• Communicate with other professionals as required by each project brief
• Contribute to the production of documents and briefings
• Take responsibility for quality of own work, engage positively with review by others, and consider ways of improving work processes
• Have a broad interest in both strategic landscape planning and design
• Possess the skills to communicate ideas in a clear and engaging way
• Have the ambition to be a chartered member of the landscape institute

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 health care and a flexi-benefits package allowing you to choose benefits that are truly valuable to you, including the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.

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About Stantec

From Barton Willmore's earliest days as architects and planners pioneering the profession, to today where we span all sectors and numerous specialisms, we have sought to be leaders in our field. We nurture passionate teams who are focused on creating sustainable communities that meet the needs of the people who live, work and play in them.

Now, we join Stantec, a 25,000 strong team of designers, engineers, scientists, environmentalists, project managers and economists, enabling us to expand our inter-disciplinary offer even further, delivering broader skills and global experience to support both public and private sector clients throughout their entire project’s lifecycle.

Our inter-disciplinary teams combine high quality, innovative and sustainable design with strong commercial awareness and are skilled at guiding developments of all types from entire healthy new communities to town centre regeneration. Our specialist teams can plan, design and deliver and work across all sectors from residential to leisure, industrial to education.

Our experts lead their fields, collaborating on projects that are as technically challenging as they are impactful, creative, and fulfilling. We provide a workplace where you can apply your passion, skills and creativity — and find endless opportunities to help make communities more equitable, resilient, and liveable.

We strive to drive advancement in the communities we serve, and bring the same passion to growing the potential of each professional who joins ours – our community, and are committed to making our community diverse and inclusive. We are better together.

We are committed to supporting, fostering, and investing in our employees’ successes. We are leaders in our field for investment in staff development, graduate and apprentice programmes, STEM initiatives, and the progression of future business leaders. We create exciting opportunities for the development of our staff and, as one of our employees, you’ll be able to maintain and develop your skills, learn and adapt to change, and identify opportunities for growth within our global career framework.

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