Senior Landscape Architect / Designer

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Job Area:
Landscape

Application Deadline:
As soon as possible

Location:
1 Finsbury Avenue
EC2M 2PF London
United Kingdom
London

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BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) is an international architectural company characterized by an entrepreneurial spirit, true teamwork across expertise areas and new ways of approaching conventional tasks. We have an informal work environment where camaraderie and collegial support are highly valued and where ambition, very high work morale and dedication to being the innovators of our field unify our staff. Our office culture is characterized by creativity, high energy and a strong team spirit. We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a workplace where we want to be and work continuously at becoming better at what we do.

We are a company experiencing steady growth, and as we grow, we also strive to mature. We have over the past 15 years developed from a 10 to a 700 people organization in New York, London, Barcelona, Shenzhen, Copenhagen and Los Angeles.


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Senior Landscape Architect / Designer BIG is a group of 750+ architects, engineers, urbanists, inventors, researchers and business minds from all over the world who are based in our Copenhagen, New York, London, Barcelona and Los Angeles offices. While we are led by a group of expert partners, directors, and associates, a flat hierarchy and collaborative spirit are essential to our BIG ecosystem. We are infectiously ambitious and unified by the shared mission to craft the world we want to live in, to give form to our future one project at a time.

We are currently looking for a talented, motivated, and ambitious Senior Landscape Architect/Designer to work on a number of high-profile projects as an integrated member of the Landscape team at BIG’s London studio. You will be based in the office together with a vibrant, multidisciplinary team of 200+ BIGsters, and will be responsible for the delivery of projects of varying scale and typology in the Middle East and UK, including masterplans, buildings, and public realm design.

Key responsibilities:

• Design of landscape projects and day-to-day coordination of BIG-L team
• Generating creative, responsive, and boundary-pushing ideas in collaboration with Partners, project subconsultants and clients
• Technical development and management of landscape projects
• Production and coordination of drawing sets
• Ensuring design intent and quality across all stages
• Presentation and inspiring both internal design teams and client groups
• Balancing design intent, costs, and technical feasibility in close collaboration with design leadership
• Mentoring junior members in both design and technical developments
• Participate in landscape leadership strategies in future growth of BIG-L London

• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Landscape Architect/Designer on built and published references
• Professional degree in Landscape Architecture
• Chartered Membership of Landscape Institute (CMLI) is desirable
• Experience working on hospitality projects and projects in the Middle East is preferable
• Experience in an array of typologies (public, private, master planning) and technical realms (resiliency, large and small scale)
• Experience in planting, natural systems and grading design aspects of landscape architecture
• Experience with technical detailing and documentation is preferable
• Strong conceptual and design skills
• Influential and confident in client presentation, team management and project coordination
• Ability to work under pressure with an open and flexible attitude
• Proficiency in Rhino and Adobe Suite is essential, Revit and Enscape is desirable
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English (spoken and written)

This job description reflects the core activities of the role and is not intended to be either prescriptive or exhaustive; it is issued as a framework to outline the main areas of responsibility at the time of writing. There is a requirement for the post holder to recognise this and adopt a flexible approach to work.

Application:

Please upload your CV and portfolio. Portfolios should be uploaded in single page - A4, portrait and a maximum of 20 pages. We will contact you if your profile matches our recruitment needs.

This is a full-time position based out of BIG’s London office. Working together and collaborating in the same space is integral to our culture, so all our staff are expected to work from the office every day.

Salary will be subject to experience and qualifications. Relevant applicants will be interviewed on an ongoing basis, as we are seeking to fill this vacancy as soon as possible.

Diversity has been part of our DNA since BIG’s foundation. A multitude of cultures and backgrounds creates a new point of reference which leads to amazing insights. At BIG, we value, celebrate and support diversity because it makes our team, work and the built environment better. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and take affirmative action to employ equally regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities and creating a workplace culture in which diversity and inclusion is valued - if you have any questions about this vacancy (or require any reasonable adjustments to be made to the process due to a disability), please specify this in the designated section of the application form.

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