Associate Landscape Planner

Ramboll; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design, engineering, and consultancy company is seeking an Associate Landscape Planner to join their dynamic landscape team in Glasgow. This role involves delivering comprehensive landscape planning across various projects and mentoring junior team members. The ideal candidate will have experience in providing planning advice, particularly in the renewable energy sector, and possess strong communication and team management skills. With a flexible work environment and commitment to personal development, this position offers a pathway to contribute towards sustainable future initiatives.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Matched pension contributions

Private medical cover

Qualifications

• Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute.
• Experience in providing landscape planning advice, especially in renewable energy.
• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills.

Responsibilities

• Delivering landscape planning packages through all project stages.
• Working collaboratively with the landscape team and mentoring junior staff.
• Preparing written and graphic materials for landscape planning outputs.

Skills

Communication skills

Team management

Landscape planning advice

Education

Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute

Tools

Microsoft Office

GIS

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

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Do you want an integral role within a growing landscape team while working on a diverse portfolio of projects in the energy, transport, and regeneration sectors? Are you confident in supporting, briefing, and mentoring junior members of the team, and leading landscape planning elements of projects through all development stages? Are you comfortable preparing and giving landscape and visual evidence, or keen to add this capability to your skillset?

If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our Landscape team as our new Associate Landscape Planner and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.

Your new role

As our new Associate Landscape Planner, you will be part of our landscape specialism within Ramboll, a leading design, engineering, and consultancy company. We work as a national team with landscape architects based out of our Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, and Oxford offices. Ramboll operates a flexible working policy, and with this you will be part of an exciting team of experts, who respect each other and work towards creating sustainable societies where people and nature flourish.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Delivering landscape planning packages, through all project stages including client interface, feasibility, option selection, appraisal, assessment, stakeholder consultation, post-application, monitoring, and project management
• Arranging and leading events/meetings with clients, stakeholders, and project teams
• Working collaboratively with the wider landscape team and mentoring junior staff
• Ensuring delivery of high-quality and technically accurate work by yourself and the team
• Landscape input to business development activities, fee proposals and tender submissions
• Utilising and exploring digital tools for design, assessment, and delivery of landscape projects
• Site visits and technical photography as appropriate
• Preparation of written and graphic materials for landscape planning outputs, including landscape and visual evidence

About you

• A Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute
• Experience in providing landscape planning advice to a range of sectors with a focus on renewable energy
• Ability to work successfully and build relationships with colleagues and other consultants
• Ability to manage teams towards successful delivery of projects
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Well organised and able to prioritise and manage their own and others workload with minimal supervision
• Ability to use a range of IT packages such as Microsoft Office, GIS, and Adobe Creative Suite as required

Personal qualities that will help you succeed in this role include: a good understanding of other environmental, design and engineering disciplines capabilities and the interest and flexibility to work on a wide range of projects at all stages; working as a key member of the national landscape and environment teams in the delivery of projects, and; being able to work dynamically, not just within your own team – but with different teams or experts across Ramboll and external clients/consultant organisations.

What we can offer you

• Commitment to your development
• Leaders guided by our Leadership Principles
• A culture that welcomes you as the unique person you are
• Inspiration from colleagues, clients, and projects
• The long-term thinking of a foundation-owned company
• Flexible work environment
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Matched pension contributions
• Private medical cover and life assurance