Overview

Are you passionate about landscape architecture, nature-based solutions and sustainable design? Are you looking for opportunities to work on interesting projects? Are you ready to take your career to the next level in landscape architecture?

Our growing Landscape Architecture team has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic Senior Landscape Architect to join us, working on a broad range of prestigious landscape projects across the UK. Our projects range in scale across sectors including urban regeneration, new town settlements, tall buildings, residential/mixed use greenfield development, commercial, infrastructure and energy / renewable projects at various stages of the planning process and including nationally significant infrastructure projects.

This role presents a fantastic opportunity for you to take your career as an experienced landscape architect to the next level, working at the heart of our interdisciplinary teams and providing valued landscape architecture input to projects, ranging from landscape concepts and landscape design to landscape appraisals and assessments. You will share our desire to work with clients and stakeholders to create exceptional places, which provide multiple benefits to people, communities, and the environment.

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 Bristol or Reading offices – with hybrid working allowing for a mix of in-office and home working.

In this role you will provide creative landscape design input with a high standard of technical excellence across projects. You will work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders – working collaboratively with Landscape Architects and other discipline colleagues from across our multi-disciplinary teams.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• preparing landscape conceptual, outline and detailed designs and contributing to the creation of environmental mitigation design proposals
• providing input to fee proposals
• undertaking field and visual survey work for projects across the UK
• preparing landscape / townscape and visual appraisals and contributing to impact assessments
• inputting to or preparing landscape specifications and landscape management plans

About you

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 including AutoCAD, ArcGIS, Adobe Software (Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign) or similar software packages.