Landscape Architect

In response to a growing portfolio of exciting projects, we are seeking an experienced, Chartered, Senior Landscape Architect with at least 5 years of UK Landscape Architecture work experience, to join our creative landscape design team in Leeds.

Our ideal candidate will be ambitious, dynamic, engaging, and an excellent communicator with hands-on experience of leading on the design and delivery of projects across all RIBA work stages.

Key tasks will involve being the main client and design team contact across a range of exciting projects including education, masterplanning, healthcare, sport and leisure, residential, public realm, and some fantastic community initiative projects. You will be responsible for the day-to-day running of your own projects with the support of an experienced team. This opportunity will give the successful candidate scope to thrive and take genuine ownership of the projects, whilst being a key part within a small and close-knit creative design team.

As part of a multi-disciplinary firm, there will also be opportunities to collaborate on projects with a wide range of specialists from within our environment, planning, engineering, and sustainability teams.

Desired skills and qualities:

• Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (minimum 2 years post chartership experience)
• Experience leading Landscape design projects across a range of sectors and scales
• Project management responsibilities including commercials, time, resourcing, and contracts
• Experience of LVIA and assessment work
• Delegating tasks to a support team
• Ability to manage and mentor more junior members of the team
• A creative, problem-solving approach to design
• Technically competent throughout the design process from briefing to overseeing works on site
• Excellent computer graphic capabilities and hand drawing skill
• Fully proficient in the use of AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite to a high standard (REVIT desirable but not essential)
• Understanding and ideally experience of SuDS, BNG, and masterplanning
• A high standard of written English and excellent presentation skills
• Ability to take initiative in response to direction or instruction
• Good design flair and ability to develop designs from concept through to detailed design and specification
• Full UK driving license

We offer:

• Membership of the Firm's Group Personal Pension Plan, with Employer's contribution of up to 5%
• Payment of a relevant professional subscription
• 24 days annual leave per year
• Membership to the Firm's Private Health Care Scheme
• Inclusion in the Firm's Critical Illness Cover Policy
• Inclusion in the Firm's Life Assurance Policy, insuring you 3 times your annual salary
• Mobile Phone with inclusive tariff including personal usage
• Flexitime Working Schedule
• Long service awards
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Travel Loans
• Recruitment Bounty Scheme

About us

Wardell Armstrong is a successful, award-winning, multi-disciplinary consultancy with 13 offices throughout the UK employing approximately 500 staff including a team of >20 landscape architects. At the heart of our business lies a group of outstanding people delivering client-focused solutions to challenging problems across a range of sectors, and we are always looking for creative and enthusiastic individuals to join our firm. Wardell Armstrong is a Landscape Institute Registered Practice and a member of the IEMA benchmark scheme for EIA.

Having recently merged with SLR Consulting, you will be joining Wardell Armstrong at an exciting time. We are currently coming together with approximately one hundred Landscape Architects from within SLR's multi-disciplinary, environmental and sustainability consultancy, which works on leading projects across the globe.