Graduate Urban Designer

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. 

Your role:

We are looking for a Graduate Urban Designer to be based in Manchester, joining our 2025 Graduate Programme.
 

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

About you:

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.

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)

Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.

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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