Graduate Landscape Architect

This role is a creative design + environmental planning graduate job where you help design and shape outdoor spaces like parks, cities, and infrastructure landscapes. It combines artistic design, environmental thinking, and technical planning.

Job Description

At AECOM, our national team delivers a diverse range of exciting projects across the UK&I and around the world. We work in dynamic, multidisciplinary environments to design and deliver creative solutions for a broad mix of public and private sector clients — including Homes England, Universities, National Highways, HS2, the Environment Agency, Local Authorities, the National Trust, and a range of healthcare institutions.

Our work spans development, energy transition, water, residential, government, and transportation, creating integrated and award-winning projects.

We are looking for Graduate Landscape Architects to join our planning and design teams. This role is ideal for a motivated and enthusiastic graduate who wants to develop their skills and build a rewarding career within an award-winning, innovative, and supportive team.

As part of one of the UK&I’s largest and most diverse landscape practices, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of regionally significant projects — from regeneration and environmental enhancement to large-scale infrastructure and ground-breaking international schemes.

You’ll be supported as you grow your experience and develop your career within a structured and friendly team environment. From day one, you’ll be paired with an experienced mentor who will guide you as you begin contributing to live projects.

Role Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with colleagues to produce drawings, visualisations, and technical documents — including concise reports — across different stages of LVIA, planning, and design projects.

• Contribute to client meetings, workshops, and presentations, developing creative and practical ideas to help solve complex design challenges.

• Apply your creativity and technical knowledge to integrate placemaking and climate resilience into project designs.

• Support project management activities, including assisting with schedules, budgets, and documentation under the guidance of senior team members.

• Prepare and check design drawings and technical materials using relevant software, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail at every stage.

• Communicate clearly and confidently — both in writing and in person — with clients, colleagues, and wider project teams.

• Build strong working relationships within the Landscape Architecture team and across multidisciplinary project teams.

• Take a proactive role in responding to client needs and contributing to the delivery of high-quality, sustainable design outcomes.

Qualifications

• Degree or Master’s in Landscape Architecture (or equivalent qualification).

• Knowledge and understanding of the UK planning system in relation to landscape architecture.

• Experience of, or a strong desire to gain experience in, high-quality landscape and/or townscape and visual impact assessments and appraisals (LVIA/TVIA).

• Fluency in English, with excellent report-writing and communication skills — both verbal and written — and the confidence to engage with a variety of people (clients, colleagues, stakeholders, and sub-contractors).

• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Experience with, or willingness to develop skills in, some or all of the following software:

• AutoCAD

• Adobe Creative Cloud

• Civil 3D

• Revit

• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, and hardworking, with ambition, curiosity, and strong research skills.

• Proven ability to work collaboratively within a team and independently, demonstrating initiative and focus.

• Ability to work flexibly under pressure, responding to changing project and programme requirements.

• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to structure and prioritise tasks effectively through close cooperation with colleagues.

• A full UK driving licence is required, as the role may involve travel for site visits and surveys, occasionally requiring the transport of equipment.

Additional Information

• Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible since CVs will be reviewed, and candidates selected on a rolling recruitment basis for either immediate or advanced offer start.

• Please include a covering letter with your application and provide all predicted and/or obtained academic grades and details of the dates you are able to work to/from and well as locations you would be interested in.

• You must have the right to work in the UK.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges.

Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.