Intermediate Landscape Architect – Calgary Studio
Strong communities don’t just happen. They’re thoughtfully planned and future-ready. We bring life to urban downtowns, suburban hubs, small towns, and rural areas through master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, parks, and recreation facilities. The result: vibrant economic centers, resilient neighborhoods, and welcoming places that feel like home.
If you’re passionate about empowering communities, join us to discover a career with endless opportunities
Your Opportunity
Our Calgary design studio is seeking a full-time, highly motivated intermediate level Landscape Designer to join our Planning and Landscape Architecture team within the Community Development business center. Top candidates will have strong technical abilities, excellent graphic communications skills, be highly organized, and be able to work collaboratively but also work independently on projects through all phases of a project lifecycle.
You will have the opportunity to plan and design public and private projects across a range of scales and uses, including civic spaces, streetscapes, parks, residential, commercial, institutional developments, and more. We are seeking team members with interest or experience in working on a variety of municipal, infrastructure and architecture lead project types. You will build new relationships with our more than 250+ landscape architecture staff throughout the organization. This position also offers mentorship under award winning Landscape Architects, Planners, and Architects through all phases of a project lifecycle, as well as the chance for you to mentor team members as we continue to grow. As part of Stantec’s flexible workplace, this position provides the opportunity for splitting between working at home and from our design studio.
Your Key Responsibilities
Supporting design teams with site analysis, concept design, production of construction documents, project presentation graphics, and construction administration efforts.
Work towards leading and managing projects, communicating directly with clients and supporting projects from concept through construction.
Balance multiple priorities and deadlines, demonstrating excellent time management and organizational skills.
Maintaining a sense of excitement to be involved in projects such as, but not limited to, urban design, education, healthcare, master planned communities, landscape restoration, recreation and sport facilities, etc.
Producing designs and preparing project graphics using hand and computer drawing and rendering techniques.
Develop technical designs and drawings across a range of project scales from less than one acre to hundreds of acres in size.
Design skills required include technical design layout, grading, planting and detailing of design projects of all sizes. Irrigation design knowledge is not required, but considered an asset.
Project management skills required include, project planning, proposal response/scope of work definition, and project financial oversight
This role requires collaborative work with our planning, engineering and architecture colleagues and a close working relationship with the various members of the landscape architecture team, including our landscape designers, graphic designers, senior landscape architects and landscape field services team members.
