Senior Associate Landscape Architecture - Design Leader

AECOM; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking an experienced Senior Associate - Landscape Architecture to lead conceptualization, design, and delivery of landscape projects in Abu Dhabi. You will collaborate with architects, engineers, and clients to create outdoor environments balancing aesthetics with sustainability.

Lead multiple medium-scale projects, manage teams, liaise with clients, and drive design quality through QA/QC. This role offers opportunities to shape Abu Dhabi's urban landscape within a global

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years of professional experience in landscape architecture.
• Bachelor's degree in the relevant discipline field. Masters degree preferred.
• Working towards professional membership in Urban Design or Architecture (e.g. RIBA) in the relevant discipline degree.
• ping junior design professionals

Responsibilities

• Leads strategy and innovation related to products, processes, standards and methodologies to achieve market, customer and industry goals.
• Manages, coordinates and leads multiple medium-sized landscape design projects independently with less oversight.
• Operates as a technical lead for medium-scale landscape projects with a strong capability to coordinate multiple disciplines and communicate project requirements.
• Leads client interface/meetings and manages project’s contractual requirements.
• Plans and conducts design and creative review sessions for ongoing projects and competitions.
• Aware of all public realm design standards and applies them across landscape projects.
• Contributes to the studio design ethos discussions and design drivers.
• Bridges between delivering design ideas and delivering to budget. Understands client objectives and steers design thinking accordingly.
• Leading and delivering entire technical packages independently with review from senior staff.
• Full understanding of the planting and irrigation requirements/standards and guidelines per region.
• Leads and delivers designs independently with review from senior staff.
• Actively engages in promoting innovative design solutions and influence peers and reports.
• Identifies new potential areas of innovation and improvements in design ideas and presentations that the landscape team can benefit from.
• Promotes the use of new innovative digital tools in landscape design projects and engage in internal research and development.
• Fair knowledge of the market and helps in reviewing landscape cost plans on projects.
• Organizes internal libraries and updates Landscape capabilities statements and project sheets for ongoing/completed projects.
• Gain experiences on site for an ongoing landscape-built projects and resolves issues on sites.
• Assists and updates FINANCE REPORT/ PROJECT FINANCIAL STATUS on projects; writse change orders/variation orders for the project they are responsible for in liaison with Project Manager and Project Director.
• Provides updates for weekly studio/resourcing meetings.
• Identifies skills gaps and helps in the sources, interviews and recruitment of new joiners.
• Manages, coordinates and delivers landscape bids and proposals while tailor technical approach, methodologies and delivery structure. Prepares and coordinates commercial aspects of bids in line with project expectations.
• Be an advocate of quality procedures applicable to the Landscape Design Technical practice group and apply continuously thorough self-checks and reviews of deliverables before being shared. Reviews and checks deliverables as per QA/QC requirements
• Provide professional mentorship/guidance to junior staff members.

Skills

Landscape architecture

Project design

Mentorship

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline

Master's degree preferred

Job description

AECOM is seeking an experienced Senior Associate - Landscape Architecture to lead conceptualization, design, and delivery of landscape projects in Abu Dhabi. You will collaborate with architects, engineers, and clients to create outdoor environments balancing aesthetics with sustainability.

Lead multiple medium-scale projects, manage teams, liaise with clients, and drive design quality through QA/QC. This role offers opportunities to shape Abu Dhabi's urban landscape within a global