Senior Landscape Architect

Lead Careers; Bury St Edmunds; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Private healthcare

Pension

Life assurance

Flexible working

Team events

Job summary

LEAD Careers is seeking a Senior Landscape Architect to join our Suffolk office on a flexible, hybrid basis. You will contribute to major residential, commercial, transport, and energy projects, integrating landscape design with green infrastructure and visual impact assessment.

You will lead design teams, manage client relations, and deliver high-quality planning drawings and visualisations, with a commitment to sustainability and place-making.

Qualifications

• Degree or post graduate degree in Landscape Architecture.
• Proven track record in Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIA).
• Experience in landscape character assessment and appraisal.
• Interest in green infrastructure and environmental design and management.
• Good written skills.

Responsibilities

• Will blend landscape architecture with assessment and green infrastructure planning.
• Lead landscape design on diverse projects across sectors.
• Interact with multidisciplinary teams and clients to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Skills

Landscape Architecture

LVIA

Character assessment

Green infrastructure

Written skills

CAD/GIS

Visualisations

Communication

Driving licence

Education

Degree in Landscape Architecture

Tools

CAD/GIS

Job description

Senior Landscape Architect

Location - Suffolk

Salary - £DOE

LEAD Careers have been appointed to source a Senior Landscape Architect for a Multi-Disciplinary Consultancy to work out of their Suffolk office. The consultancy work on some of the UK's most exciting development projects, ranging from residential and commercial schemes to nationally significant transport infrastructure and renewable energy development to new settlements and urban regeneration.

As a Senior Landscape Architect you will have a special blend of skills combining landscape architecture with assessment and green infrastructure planning.

The consultancy work on some of the UK's most exciting development projects, ranging from residential and commercial schemes to nationally significant transport infrastructure and renewable energy development to new settlements and urban regeneration.

As a Senior Landscape Architect you will have a special blend of skills combining landscape architecture with assessment and green infrastructure planning.

SENIOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT KEY SKILL AND QUALIFICATIONS

• A Degree/Post Graduate Degree in Landscape Architecture
• Proven track record in Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments and their application
• Experience in landscape character assessment and appraisal
• Creative interest in green infrastructure and environmental design and management
• Good written skills
• CAD/GIS and graphic software ability desirable
• An understanding of procedures and guidance relating to the preparation of visualisations desirable
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact comfortably with people at all levels and within different disciplines
• Full UK driving licence and be willing to travel throughout the country to undertake site visits

ON OFFER

• A competitive salary and benefits package with additional bonus
• Flexible working (hybrid or otherwise tailored to your personal situation)
• A superb variety of juicy projects in a variety of sectors
• A professional development plan for personal goals and career development
• Payment of key professional subscription fees
• Private healthcare, pension, critical illness cover and life assurance
• A superb office culture with team building days, trips & lunches
• A forward-thinking employer with strong ethos
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• A great work /family/ social life balance
• An equal Opportunities Employer

This practice know that mental wellbeing is one of the most valuable assets a business can have. Workplaces that prioritise mental health have better engagement, higher productivity, greater morale and all members of their team have higher job satisfaction.

All applications for this Senior Landscape Architect role will remain completely confidential between yourself and Adam Johnston at LEAD Careers You will not be added to any mailing lists and rest assured your details would NOT be passed on to anyone without your prior authorisation.