2026 Uk Graduate Landscape Architectural Career Path

**Locations**
- Bristol, United Kingdom / Cambridge, United Kingdom / Edinburgh, United Kingdom / Glasgow, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom / Manchester, United Kingdom / Sheffield, United Kingdom / Southampton, United Kingdom

**Country**
- United Kingdom

**Contract type**
- Permanent

**Work pattern**
- Full Time

**Market**
- Environment and society

**Discipline**
- Environment, Architecture

**Job ref**
- 11651

**Recruiter contact**

Turn your ambition into action - and shape your future with us.

Design for a Better Future. Shape Places with Purpose. Empower Communities.

At Mott MacDonald, we believe in designing spaces that inspire, connect, and endure. As a Graduate Landscape Architect, you’ll be part of a passionate, award-winning team working on nationally significant infrastructure and high-profile urban regeneration projects. Together, we’re creating resilient places, empowering communities, and shaping sustainable environments.

We’re proud to be a wholly employee-owned business, which means our people drive our direction. You’ll be supported by a culture that values creativity, wellbeing, and collaboration—where your ideas matter and your growth is championed.

What You’ll Be Doing:
You’ll work alongside experienced designers and technical specialists, contributing to projects that span the full lifecycle—from concept to completion. Your responsibilities may include:

- Design delivery: Assist in the creation of high-quality conceptual, detailed, and technical designs for landscape and urban spaces.
- Multidisciplinary collaboration: Support integrated teams across water, transport, energy, and environmental sectors.
- Technical outputs: Produce drawings, presentation materials, specifications, schedules, and photomontages.
- Site and environmental work: Undertake site surveys and contribute to environmental assessments and improvement schemes.
- Digital design: Provide AutoCAD, Revit, and graphic support to enhance project delivery.
- Quality and innovation: Deliver work to high standards in line with our Quality Management Procedures.
- Professional development: Engage with Mott MacDonald’s Early Careers Professionals Network and attend development events.

To be eligible for this opportunity, you will have less than 12 months’ relevant experience **(excluding placements)** and have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree (obtained no earlier than 2024) or expected to achieve one, in one of the following degree disciplines:

- Landscape Design
- Landscape Architecture

We are looking for graduates with the following strengths:

- Proactively takes initiative to complete tasks efficiently and independently.
- Communicates effectively and clearly with clients and colleagues.
- Delivers high quality written work with strong attention to detail and clarity.
- Demonstrates a structured and analytical approach to problem solving.

As we want the best people for the role, we support flexible working. Please ask us at interview stage about any flexibility you may need.

**About your development**

A graduate position should be more than just a job. We know this and so do you. That’s why with our graduate roles we aim to give you the experience and technical knowledge you need to progress your career. From the moment you join us, you’ll receive the training you need. You will be assigned a mentor, who will guide you to meet the objectives of your professional training needs. You will join our three-year early careers soft skills development programme - Accelerating your Future, which is designed to give you the skills and tools necessary for a long-lasting successful career here at Mott MacDonald.

You will have the opportunity to make a difference; learn more about
- Our Purpose
and the difference we can make

You’re probably wondering what else is on offer. Join us, and you’ll get:

- Biannual salary reviews: we believe that hard work should be rewarded and recognised. Therefore, for the first three years of your career with us, you’ll have biannual salary reviews.
- A competitive salary: in addition to biannual reviews, we will ensure that you’re given a salary that matches the current industry standard.
- Contributory pension up to 7% of your salary: we have the best people on our team, and we like to look out for them. With our support, you’ll have all the advice and options you need to be able to invest in your future.
- A flexible benefits scheme: our company is made up of a range of different people and we understand that different people want different things. That’s why with our flexible plan, you’ll have the ability to manage the range of benefits we have on offer, to suit your specific needs.

**Our social side**

Being part of Mott MacDonald means more than just work; there’s a huge range of fun and exciting things that you can get involved in.

From the moment you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to expand your social and professional network, whether it’s meeting other graduate