Landscape Architect

Wardell Armstrong LLP (part of SLR); Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and award-winning multi-disciplinary consultancy as a Senior Landscape Architect. This role offers the opportunity to lead exciting projects across various sectors including education, healthcare, and community initiatives. You will have the chance to work within a creative design team, taking ownership of your projects while collaborating with specialists in planning, engineering, and sustainability. With a focus on innovation and client satisfaction, this position is perfect for someone looking to make a significant impact in the landscape architecture field. Enjoy a supportive environment that fosters professional growth and creativity.

Benefits

Group Personal Pension Plan

Professional subscription payment

24 days annual leave

Private Health Care Scheme

Critical Illness Cover

Life Assurance Policy

Mobile Phone with inclusive tariff

Flexitime Working Schedule

Long service awards

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• 5+ years of UK Landscape Architecture experience.
• Experience leading projects across various sectors.
• Ability to manage and mentor junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of landscape projects.
• Act as the main client and design team contact.
• Oversee project management including time and resources.

Skills

Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute

Project management

Landscape design

LVIA and assessment work

Delegating tasks

Mentoring junior team members

Creative problem-solving

Computer graphic capabilities

AutoCAD proficiency

Adobe Creative Suite proficiency

Education

Chartered Landscape Architect qualification

Degree in Landscape Architecture

Tools

AutoCAD

Adobe Creative Suite

REVIT

Job description

In response to a growing portfolio of exciting projects we are seeking an experienced, Chartered, Senior Landscape Architect with at least 5 years of UK Landscape Architecture work experience, to join our creative landscape design team in Leeds.

Our ideal candidate will be ambitious, dynamic, engaging and an excellent communicator with hands-on experience of leading on the design and delivery of projects across all RIBA work stages.

Key tasks will involve being the main client and design team contact across a range of exciting projects including education, masterplanning, healthcare, sport and leisure, residential, public realm and some fantastic community initiative projects. You will be responsible for the day to day running of your own projects with the support of an experienced team. This opportunity will give the successful candidate scope to thrive and take genuine ownership of the projects, whilst being a key part within a small and close-knit creative design team.

As part of a multi-disciplinary firm, there will also be opportunities to collaborate on projects with a wide range of specialists from within our environment, planning, engineering and sustainability teams.

(A flavour of our current project portfolio is available to view on our Instagram page ‘wa_landscape')

Desired skills and qualities:

• Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (minimum 2 years post chartership experience)
• Experience leading Landscape design projects across a range of sectors and scales
• Project management responsibilities including commercials, time, resourcing, and contracts
• Experience of LVIA and assessment work
• Delegating tasks to a support team
• Ability to manage and mentor more junior members of the team
• A creative, problem-solving approach to design
• Technically competent throughout the design process from briefing to overseeing works on site
• Excellent computer graphic capabilities and hand drawing skill
• Fully proficient in the use AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite to a high standard (REVIT desirable but not essential)
• Understanding and ideally experience of SuDS, BNG and masterplanning
• A high standard of written English and excellent presentation skills
• Ability to take initiative in response to direction or instruction
• Good design flair and ability to develop designs from concept through to detailed design and specification
• Full UK driving license
  
  
  

We offer:

• Membership of the Firm's Group Personal Pension Plan, with Employer's contribution of up to 5%
• Payment of a relevant professional subscription.
• 24 days annual leave per year
• Membership to the Firm's Private Health Care Scheme
• Inclusion in the Firm's Critical Illness Cover Policy
• Inclusion in the Firm's Life Assurance Policy, insuring you 3 times your annual salary
• Mobile Phone with inclusive tariff including personal usage
• Flexitime Working Schedule
• Long service awards
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Travel Loans
• Recruitment Bounty Scheme
  
  
  

About Us

Wardell Armstrong is a successful, award-winning, multi-disciplinary consultancy with 13 offices throughout the UK employing approximately 500 staff including a team of >20 landscape architects. At the heart of our business lies a group of outstanding people delivering client-focused solutions to challenging problems across a range of sectors and we are always looking for creative and enthusiastic individuals to join our firm. Wardell Armstrong is a Landscape Institute Registered Practice and a member of the IEMA benchmark scheme for EIA.

Having recently merged with SLR Consulting, you will be joining Wardell Armstrong at an exciting time. We are currently coming together with approximately one hundred Landscape Architects from within SLRs multi-disciplinary, environmental and sustainability consultancy, which works on leading projects across the globe.