Senior Landscape Architect

Recruit Build Limited; Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent Benefits

Job summary

Recruit Build Limited, based in Leeds, is seeking a Senior Landscape Architect to lead the creation of a new in-house landscape architecture function. The role focuses on guiding landscape design across a substantial development pipeline and collaborating with in-house teams to shape projects from concept through to planning and delivery.

You will lead design initiatives, mentor junior staff and help build a high-performance landscape team within a fast-paced commercial environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering landscape design across development projects.
• Experience taking schemes from concept through planning to development.
• Strong design, presentation and communication skills.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary design and development teams.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and workloads.
• Experience mentoring or leading junior team members.
• Commercial and practical approach to landscape design.
• Experience in care, retirement living or related developments is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead landscape design across new development projects.
• Collaborate early with in-house land and architectural teams.
• Develop landscape strategies and design solutions for sites.
• Prepare landscape proposals to support planning applications.
• Coordinate with in-house and external consultants as needed.
• Ensure landscape design enhances setting and usability of each development.
• Build and develop the in-house Landscape Architecture function.
• Mentor and manage junior team members as the department grows.

Skills

Landscape design

Concept development

Planning & approvals

Mentoring

Team leadership

Commercial sensitivity

Job description

Senior Landscape Architect

Leeds

£60,000 - £65,000 + Excellent Benefits + Outstanding Career Opportunity

A rare opportunity to build and lead a brand-new in-house Landscape Architecture function for one of the UK's leading specialist care home developers.

Recruit Build is working with a highly successful and rapidly growing developer that designs and delivers purpose-built care developments across the UK.

Landscape design is currently delivered through external consultants, but as the development pipeline continues to grow, the business is now bringing this expertise in-house for the first time.

This creates an exceptional opportunity for an experienced Senior Landscape Architect to shape the function from the outset, influence projects at an early stage and, in time, build and develop a team around them.

The Role

Working as part of the wider in-house Design and Development team, you will become the business's lead Landscape Architect and take responsibility for landscape design across a substantial pipeline of new developments.

• Leading landscape design across new development projects
• Becoming involved at an early stage alongside the in-house land and architectural design teams
• Developing landscape strategies and design solutions for potential and live development sites
• Preparing landscape proposals to support planning applications
• Working closely with the in-house architectural designers, land team and wider supporting teams throughout the development process
• Managing and coordinating external landscape consultants where required
• Ensuring landscape design enhances the setting, character and usability of each development
• Building and developing the in-house Landscape Architecture function
• Mentoring and managing more junior team members as the department grows

The Person

We are looking for an experienced Landscape Architect who is comfortable taking ownership of projects and has the confidence to establish and develop a new function within a fast-paced commercial environment.

You are likely to be operating at Senior Landscape Architect or Associate level and will have:

• Strong experience delivering landscape design across a range of development projects
• Experience taking schemes from early concept and planning through the development process
• Strong design, presentation and communication skills
• Experience working closely with multidisciplinary design and development teams
• The ability to manage your own workload and take responsibility for multiple projects
• Experience mentoring, managing or supporting junior team members
• A commercial and practical approach to landscape design
• Experience within care, retirement living or other accommodation-led developments would be particularly relevant, although candidates from broader residential, commercial or mixed-development backgrounds are equally encouraged to apply

The Opportunity

This is a genuinely rare chance to create and lead a new in-house Landscape Architecture function from the ground up.

You’ll have real influence over how the discipline develops within the business, with the opportunity to build a team around you as the company continues to grow.

Salary £60,000 - £65,000 + excellent benefits.