Are you passionate about landscape planning, landscape
assessments and sustainable masterplanning? Are you looking for opportunities
to work on interesting projects? Are you ready to take your career to the next
level in landscape consultancy?
Our growing Landscape Architecture team has an exciting new opportunity
for an experienced and enthusiastic Senior
Landscape Architect with Landscape Planning and LVIA experience to
join us working on a broad range of prestigious landscape projects across the UK.
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to further develop
your career, contributing to a wide range of projects across sectors including
urban regeneration, new town settlements, tall buildings, residential/mixed use
greenfield development, commercial, infrastructure and energy projects at
various stages of the planning process.
Your responsibilities will include carrying out
landscape/townscape and visual impact assessments, providing strategic analysis
and strategic green infrastructure advice and contributing to landscape-led
masterplanning. Whilst landscape planning is the core focus of the role, you
will have the opportunity to continue to utilise your landscape design skills.
You will work as part of our collaborative UK Landscape
Architecture team, which includes senior colleagues and landscape planning and
design specialists in our hub offices of Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester,
London, Reading, Warrington and Edinburgh. We’re a friendly, inclusive and
supportive team that values integrity, curiosity, creativity and shared success
and which believes in providing suitable challenges for personal and team
growth.
We believe that it is our people and their individual
talents that make us special, with everyone encouraged to grow and flourish
both personally and professionally with genuine career opportunities. You’ll be part of a
culture that empowers you to contribute meaningfully and shape your role in a
way that aligns with your strengths and interests.
This role can be based in either our London, Birmingham
or Bristol offices, with hybrid working allowing for a mix of
in-office and home working. Our offices in London, Birmingham and Bristol are
centrally located in the city centre within a short distance of public
transport links. Our offices are friendly and sociable places offering a
supportive working environment.
About you
To be considered for this opportunity you will need to be
able to demonstrate your skills and experience within the following areas:
- Preliminary
landscape and visual appraisals to inform the development process
- Landscape
and visual impact assessments
- Conceptual
and strategic design sketches as appropriate
- Townscape
and visual impact assessments and tall building assessments
- Strategic
assessments of designations such as Green Belts and Strategic Gaps
- Landscape
Capacity and Sensitivity Studies and character assessments
- Input
to Vision Documents, Design and Access Statements and Design Codes
You may already be a CMLI or currently be progressing on the
Landscape Institute Pathway to Chartership (P2C). Support and mentoring will be
provided for P2C development for those that require it.
You will have at least 5 years of relevant work experience
in a landscape architecture practice or working on landscape projects within a
multi-disciplinary consultancy.
You will have good knowledge of current UK planning and
environmental assessment legislation. You will have the ability to develop
designs, write reports, and be confident working with industry software.
We create a working environment that offers flexibility,
adopting a hybrid approach to agile working and offer a wide range of benefits
including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, private healthcare and a
flexi-benefits package allowing you to choose benefits that are truly valuable
to you.