Landscape Architect/Urban Planning Intern - Community Development (Summer 2026)

Stantec•Louisville, KY

18h

About The Position

Learning begins in the classroom but there’s no better place to gain real-world experience than with Stantec. Interns are an integral part of our teams, working to solve some of the world's most complex challenges. As an intern, you’ll work alongside our experienced practitioners and with our clients and communities. This hands-on experience will equip you with practical skills, build your network, and provide opportunities that set you up for success. Strong communities don’t just happen—they’re built. They’re creatively imagined, collaboratively planned, and readied to face tomorrow with optimism. At Stantec, we’re driving the future of Community Development. Our experts lead their fields, collaborating on projects that are as technically challenging as they are impactful, creative, and fulfilling. We’re a place where you can apply your passion—and find endless opportunities to help make communities more equitable, resilient, and livable. As a landscape architecture/urban planning intern within our Community Development business line, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of public and private sector projects and have a significant role in our Brownfields redevelopment practice. Our Brownfields Asset Transformation team works with communities in creating a vision for their redevelopment projects, often including design, implementation, and funding plans and reports. Our team works long-term with communities to implement these plans in a range of project scales and scopes across the nation. Projects often translate from working with municipalities to developers, and collaboration with allied consultants, both inside Stantec and from other practices. Our project variety is vast, as every community has different redevelopment challenges to overcome. We work in areas with large environmental challenges, transit-oriented desires, resiliency planning aspirations, affordable housing needs, outdoor space development opportunities, and more. Opportunities to work on non-brownfields redevelopment projects will also be available. We connect the people, places, and resources that take a project from concept to reality.

Requirements

We are seeking a candidate with 0 to 5 years of educational experience in landscape architecture and/or urban planning.
A successful candidate should have the following skills: Exceptional conceptual design and graphic skills using hand and computer drawing and rendering techniques.
Exceptional technical design skills in site and planning projects across a range of project scales from less than one acre to hundreds of acres in size. Skills required include site design layout and understanding of grading and stormwater principals.
Experience in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint), AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, etc.), and SketchUp.
Ability to facilitate and support community engagement events including project workshops, design charrettes, and presentations, both virtually and in-person with occasional travel of up to three days and overnights.
Ability to solve complex problems using sound professional judgment, creativity, and innovation.
Effective verbal communication, being able to work on teams, follow guidance and constructive feedback, and contribute and present ideas clearly to internal teams, professional collaborators, and project clients.
0 to 5 years of educational experience in Landscape Architecture, or Urban Planning.
Successful candidates must currently be enrolled in or have previous experience in an undergraduate and/or graduate degree from an accredited Landscape Architecture or urban planning program.
Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal.

Nice To Haves

Experience and knowledge of brownfields planning, environmental planning, redevelopment, community engagement, public and/or private sector planning are preferred but not required.
Experience with Lumion or other 3-D visualization programs is preferred, but not required.

Responsibilities

Work on the Brownfields Asset Transformation team under the direction of licensed Landscape Architects and planners to assist in the development of projects throughout the nation, in close collaboration with Stantec’s Buildings, Community Development, Urban Places, Environmental Services, and other project teams.
Understand and execute the site inventory and analysis processes necessary to initiate a project.
Conduct research of local ordinances, land development codes, and local and regional regulations to develop project due diligence reports communicating site and design feasibility.
Develop and produce graphics and maps to illustrate due diligence findings and analysis observations.
Investigate design variables, programmatic owner/client requirements, budget constraints, site opportunities, market conditions, and environmental and brownfield regulations.
Understand building operation, pedestrian/ vehicular circulation, accessibility, planting design, site grading, and stormwater management needs to successfully lay out a site.
Prepare schematic, conceptual, design development, and construction document-level plans for various project sites.
Prepare renderings and diagrammatic graphics using various computer programs to support project visioning.
Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team on design and visioning for Area Wide Plans, Corridor Studies, Site Specific Plans, and Neighborhood Redevelopment Plans.
Support brownfield grant projects through a variety of redevelopment tasks.
Prepare and lay out presentation boards, design documents, reports, and presentations.
Support marketing and business development efforts.
Participate in meetings and presentations.
Perform other duties as needed.