We are seeking an enthusiastic and creative Senior/ Principal Landscape Architect to join our Environment team currently based in Birmingham/ West Midlands.

Our continued involvement in some of the most exciting and complex projects has elevated us to become one of the UKs leading development consultancies. We adopt a collaborative approach with other teams in our Environment Hubs across the UK, drawing together in excess of 60 landscape and landscape related professional staff and which provide expertise in landscape design, landscape planning, EIA, GIS, Visualisations and Graphics.

Person Specification
Our experience in landscape and visual impact assessment is a key component to the success of our projects, applying strategic landscape analysis to guide development principles and deliver sustainable, high-quality designs.

We are seeking an experienced landscape architect with a demonstrated track record of delivering landscape and visual impact assessment.

You will have the ability to deliver LVIAs, TVIAs and the related workstreams such as strategic planning and mitigation. The successful candidate will have a creative flair and enjoy exploring innovative landscape techniques that create sustainable and successful developments for our clients. Our team work at the highest level and are often involved with appeal work for sites in sensitive landscapes, working with several of the UKs leading legal Counsel. The successful candidate will need a keen eye for detail and ability to undertake bespoke landscape and visual analysis.

We are looking for candidates to be confident in authoring LVIA reports with minimal supervision. You will also possess skills across the microsoft office suite of software, as well as AutoCAD/Vectorworks and the Adobe Suite. Experience in landscape photography and the production of visualisations will be beneficial.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to become a mentor to our junior members of the team who are on our Graduate Training Programme. Our Graduate Training Programme has been carefully developed over the last couple of years to provide our Graduates with the skills and training that will create a strong basis of professional knowledge and expertise. The programme will support them to build a solid foundation on which they can develop the rest of their career and you can be a part of their journey by providing them support as an expert in your field.

Since 2003, we have grown consistently, enjoying a reputation in the market for excellence and delivery. We know we have achieved this through the excellent staff that we employ and work with you to ensure that individual contribution and achievements are recognised.

We offer an excellent remuneration and overall benefits package including:
• Competitive salary and regular reviews
• Contractual bonus scheme
• 7% salary contribution towards your pension in a reputable scheme
• Generous annual leave including several gift days during the Christmas period.
• Private health insurance scheme and life assurance for all our employees.
• Plus much more…

Health and wellbeing are important to us. We provide a flexible and supportive working environment designed to help you to reach your full potential and ensure a positive work life balance. We are committed to helping all of our staff to reach their full potential and support with a range of training and development initiatives throughout their whole career, enabling people to progress through Graduate right up to Executive Director.

We have no doubt that diversity is at the core of being a successful company. That’s why we are working hard to build and maintain the culture of inclusion and belonging we have today. We want every single person in our community to be able to bring their authentic and best self to work every day.

Our people are all unique in every sense, and we collaborate to generate ideas to create brilliant products and consumer experiences. We care about each other, our communities around them and our clients. That’s why we don’t shy away from celebrating our people by shining a light on their uniqueness. Inclusion is an ever-evolving state and are determined to keep making a difference.