Senior Architect - Landscape
Summary
Leads landscape architecture projects, designing and planning infrastructure, parks, and public realm spaces while managing teams, preparing technical documentation, and ensuring quality delivery.
The core activities that the successful candidate can expect to be involved with include; managing technical landscape design and environmental mitigation inputs to diverse infrastructure, development public realm and parks projects and; preparation of landscape planning figures and drawings.
- Work as part of the Landscape team to manage small projects, teams or tasks within larger projects
- Prepare technical information for infrastructure and development projects:
- strategic and feasibility/concept studies.
- preliminary and detailed design including general arrangement drawings, hard & soft construction detailing, schedules & specification to support planning applications
- tender and construction packages
- Take part in regularly scheduled meetings providing accurate updates on progress of work
- Consistently apply business standards and techniques to assure quality
- Communicate any risks or impediments to effective delivery in a timely manner
- Line manage & mentor junior team member(s)
- Support business development and bidding where required
- Degree level qualification in Landscape Architecture or recognized equivalent;
- Postgraduate diploma / Masters qualification in Landscape Architecture or recognised equivalent;
- Fluent spoken English with excellent verbal, written and graphic communication skills;
- Demonstrable experience of project management and project delivery;
- Experience of working collaboratively within a remote working environment;
- Commercial awareness and excellent time management skills;
- Experience and technical capability gained within professional consultancy or local government;
- Support construction administration, including responding to RFIs and reviewing shop drawings and site conditions.
- Solid knowledge of planting design, hardscape materials, and construction detailing.
Personal Qualities
- Creative thinker with good design skills;
- Good interpersonal skills with colleagues and clients;
- Self-motivated and adaptable, maintaining a confident demeanour when change occurs;
- Positive attitude with good team working skills and awareness of the well-being of self and others;
- Considers appropriate H&S risks and the well-being of staff when making decisions.
Additional Qualities
- Experience of applying current design standards, guidance and good working practices to the design of external spaces;
- Previous experience of line management & mentoring;
- Licentiate or Chartered Member of the Landscape LEED or other affiliated Landscape body.
BGV:
- Employment with WSP India is subject to the successful completion of a background verification (“BGV”) check conducted by a third-party agency appointed by WSP India.
- Candidates are advised to ensure that all information provided during the recruitment process — including documents uploaded — is accurate and complete, both to WSP India and its BGV partner”.