Landscape Architect

Post: Landscape Architect

Department: Design

Responsible To: Director

Job Purpose:

To assist in the promotion, planning, survey, design, and specification and sign-off of green infrastructure projects. Develop and maintain positive day-to-day relationships with existing and new clients as well as internal colleagues to ensure that an outstanding service is provided, liaising with other team members both in design and technical input. Work closely with your line manager and the Directors to assist, and where required, lead on projects.

Key Accountabilities:

1. To ensure that you fully understand your role in delivering both the company business plan and objectives.

2. Work with your line manager in the production of designs and specifications as required from our client base, both internal and external.

3. To plan and manage your time efficiently and effectively to ensure that you maximise productivity, whilst providing regular feedback on activity to your manager.

4. To assist with smooth functioning of the business organisation.

5. Where required, to liaise with clients in developing new and existing relationships, enhancing the business profile, and offering.

6. To ensure that all relevant market information is shared with your line manager and agreed strategy is acted upon.

7. To ensure all projects are tracked throughout the procurement, design and installation stages.

8. Ability to work with the latest design and reporting software and able to prepare quality reports.

9. Working closely with colleagues across the business, to act as Project Manager taking overall responsibility and ownership for projects, from conception to completion.

10. To manage and update all records on the company database, including the tracking of all time and commercial elements.

11. To continuously develop and demonstrate your technical competence and understanding via your designs, reports, and specifications.

12. The above list is not exclusive or exhaustive; post holders are expected to be flexible in line with needs of the post, department, and the Company.

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Technical Competencies - Landscape Architect

Qualifications

• Relevant degree(s) or equivalent (requirement)
• Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute, or working towards this (desirable)

Experience

• Relevant experience in a landscape architecture practice or in the green infrastructure sector
• Experience of maintaining and developing client, consultant and contractor relationships
• Experience of working in the survey, design, and specification of green infrastructure (experience with green roofs, green walls and rain gardens desirable).
• Experience of developing detailed written specifications and reports
• Working to tight deadlines
• Experience of working to and achieving targets
• Willingness to work in a small office

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the green infrastructure
• Knowledge and experience of building practice and emerging trends
• Good knowledge of green infrastructure and current sustainability issues.

Skills and Abilities

• Design of a variety of projects, including urban and rural schemes, soft and hard landscapes
• Establish landscape requirements with clients
• Conduct preliminary studies (including topography, soil, ecology, buildings, roads, services, heritage)
• Assess a site's potential to meet the client's specifications
• Seek and consider the views of stakeholders
• Accurately prepare and present detailed plans and working drawings of the design, including construction details and specifications for the project using computer-aided design (CAD) packages or similar design software
• Present proposals to clients, deal with enquiries and arrange for amendments to the final design
• Match the client's wishes with your knowledge of what will work best
• Carry out site visits
• Ensure deadlines are met
• Liaise with other professionals on the project
• Where possible, generate new business opportunities.
• Ability to act upon your own initiative
• Ability to plan and organise your time effectively, prioritising key activities and tasks
• Excellent oral, presentation, and written communication skills

Additional Requirements

• Able to use a PC including Microsoft Office applications and other relevant software as used by the organisation
• Commitment to achieving high quality outcomes
• This role requires the post holder to work flexibly outside of normal office hours as required
• As part of your duties, you may need to make yourself available for foreign travel. As such you must be in the possession of a valid passport.