Senior Landscape Architect: Lead Design & Mentorship

One Creative Environments; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

One Creative Environments in Birmingham is seeking a Senior Landscape Architect to lead projects from concept to delivery within a multidisciplinary team. You’ll combine creative design thinking with technical leadership, coordinate with architects, engineers and ecologists, mentor junior staff and ensure high-quality, sustainable outcomes on UK and overseas projects.

This is a hands-on senior role that values collaboration, clear communication and proactive problem solving, with opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong creative and strategic thinking with the ability to lead teams.
• Thorough understanding of landscape design principles and construction processes.
• Knowledge of UK planning policy and environmental regulations.
• Ability to lead, review and coordinate complex design and technical information.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with clients and consultants.
• Experience mentoring junior landscape professionals.
• Full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Leading defined elements of landscape architecture projects from concept through to delivery.
• Developing and overseeing creative design proposals and detailed design outputs.
• Reviewing and coordinating drawings, specifications, schedules and technical documentation.
• Maintaining high standards of design quality, consistency and technical accuracy.
• Coordinating effectively with architects, engineers, ecologists, arboriculturists and other specialists.
• Acting as a key technical point of contact for clients and consultants.
• Leading project meetings and coordinating follow-up actions.
• Undertaking and overseeing site surveys, site visits and monitoring works on site.
• Ensuring designs respond to planning policy, environmental legislation and current best practice.
• Supporting project programming, delivery planning and workload management and resourcing discussions.

Skills

Leadership

Creative design thinking

Technical leadership

Project coordination

Communication

Mentoring

UK planning policy

Team collaboration

Tools

AutoCAD

Adobe Creative Suite

SketchUp

Keyscape

Microsoft Office

Job description

One Creative Environments in Birmingham is seeking a Senior Landscape Architect to lead projects from concept to delivery within a multidisciplinary team. You’ll combine creative design thinking with technical leadership, coordinate with architects, engineers and ecologists, mentor junior staff and ensure high-quality, sustainable outcomes on UK and overseas projects.

This is a hands-on senior role that values collaboration, clear communication and proactive problem solving, with opportunities