Senior Chartered Landscape Architect

-; Bristol; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK design consultancy is seeking a Landscape Architect to work on diverse projects across the UK. Responsibilities include collaborating with design teams, delivering assessments, and preparing tender responses. The role requires a relevant degree, chartered membership, and experience in landscape design. We offer a competitive salary and benefits, along with opportunities for career development within a dynamic team.

Benefits

Training opportunities

Career development support

Competitive salary and benefits package

Qualifications

• Chartered membership of the Landscape Institute required.
• Experience in multidisciplinary projects essential.
• Strong project management skills are necessary.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with design teams on various projects.
• Deliver landscape and visual impact assessments.
• Prepare tender responses for projects.

Skills

Landscape Design

Project Management

Communication Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Site Survey Skills

Education

Relevant landscape degree

Chartered membership of the Landscape Institute

Tools

AutoCAD

Adobe software

Revit

Sketch Up

Enscape

Job description

Overview

The AtkinsRéalis Landscape Practice is an award winning leading UK-based design Practice, with global reach, whose reputation is built on a culture of open collaboration, creating, and delivering excellence in all we do. Our diverse, highly skilled, passionate designers are unified with a belief, that good design can positively transform people's lives. Our practice wide team of 80 Landscape Architects work throughout the UK and internationally.

We believe that everyone deserves access to brilliant buildings, places, and spaces, regardless of who they are, where they live, or their circumstances. We are creators, landscape architects, architects, designers, engineers, and specialists who share the same experiences and ambitions as the communities we serve.

Our expertise ranges across all key sectors of the built environment: Green and Blue Infrastructure, Flood Alleviation, Masterplanning, Education, Aviation, Commercial, Defence, Active Travel, Transport, Urban Regeneration, Retrofit and Residential providing integrated nature-based solutions in a multidisciplinary environment. We have a strong pipeline of work as a national landscape practice across all sectors, and we are looking to recruit Landscape Architects across the UK to join our team.

Responsibilities

Depending on your level of experience, you will have the opportunity to take a leading role on a large variety of challenging design projects across the UK. You will collaborate with national and international multi-disciplinary design teams, using your insight and creativity to generate positive, sustainable, impactful designs. You will be involved in design delivery from feasibility through to construction and engage in project management tasks as appropriate.

What you can bring includes good written capabilities to support project delivery, proactive attitude, innovative approach, high quality presentation and communication skills, and confidence in undertaking site surveys, design and assessment and writing technical reports. We thrive on turning our hand to every part of our profession.

You will also need good interpersonal skills, fluency in English, and the ability to work in a stimulating multidisciplinary environment as part of an integrated team with an inquisitive approach to work.

You will need to demonstrate the following capabilities and experience:

• Taking responsibility for project workload within a team.
• Working within a multidisciplinary environment.
• Landscape Design, supporting projects from feasibility through to detail design.
• An understanding of the principles of SuDS.
• Ability to support contract documentation and site supervision.
• LVIA in accordance with the latest best practice guidance, planning process and EIA.
• Technical knowledge, high-quality presentation and communication skills.
• Familiarity with working in a quality assurance environment.
• Understanding of and demonstrable experience in BIM.

Your purpose

• Design input to a range of projects, including schools, rail, road, flood infrastructure, public realm and urban regeneration.
• Preparation of Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments.
• Preparation of tender responses.
• Provision of landscape advice to external and internal clients.
• An understanding of project management, including the financial management of projects.
• Resource allocation in liaison with the landscape senior leadership team.
• Mentoring of junior staff.

What you can bring

• A relevant landscape degree and Chartered membership of the Landscape Institute.
• Relevant years post chartership experience in a Landscape role, ideally in both the public and private sectors.
• Experience in the management and delivery of multi-disciplinary projects, particularly in the sectors of schools, transport, flood infrastructure and urban regeneration.
• Excellent project management skills for multi-disciplinary projects.
• Experience and knowledge of Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment to varying methodologies i.e. GLVIA 3, DMRB and Proven ability to manage budgets.
• Consultancy experience is an advantage, as is a need to demonstrate commercial expertise.
• Competent in AutoCAD and Adobe software packages with a passion to explore the use of Revit, Sketch Up and Enscape used as a design tool and for presentational outputs.
• Experience and an understanding of BIM and Communication through hand drawing invaluable.

Role expectations

• Good communication skills, with ability to draft reports to a high standard.
• Ability to work under pressure, and have proven success in meeting tight deadlines.
• Confident team worker, but able to work with limited supervision.
• Commercial awareness and business development skills.
• The opportunity to work both locally and within our national business to win and deliver work and with these opportunities there will be a requirement for flexibility in respect of travel and location based on project demands.

Applicants must hold a full valid driving licence and live within a reasonable travelling distance to one of our offices. Site visits across the region will be required.

Offer and benefits

In return, we offer the opportunity to develop, learn and work with a diverse team of specialists across different regions on award-winning high-profile projects with a competitive salary and benefits package. There are training opportunities, and career development support that includes technical, project and business management skills with one of the UK's leading design consultancies.

Why work for AtkinsRéalis?

We’re ranked as one of LinkedIn's Top 25 Companies, where UK professionals want to work and stay once they join. We’ve also made the Times Top 50 employers for women. Our Infrastructure team uses innovation, new approaches and the power of data to help our clients deliver end-to-end projects and programmes for essential future infrastructure. As the work becomes ever more complex, our employees continue to challenge the status quo.

We’re committed to engineering better for people and our planet, from our global Engineering Net-Zero programme to creating social value through EDAROTH community housing. We’re proud of our active employee networks creating awareness and allyship for our under-represented groups. Not to mention programmes supporting communities outside AtkinsRéalis, including schools, charities, ex-forces and professionals returning after career breaks.

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

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Worker Type
Employee

Job Type
Regular

AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.