Senior Landscape Architect

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Ground Control are looking for a Senior Landscape Architect to join our design team, due to an internal promotion and extensive company growth. The design and build team at Ground Control recently collected the prestigious BALI Grand Award and we have an extensive client base across the UK, working on large scale infrastructure projects, innovative ecological green spaces and cutting edge landscape design.

What you ll achieve;

Working within this role, you will be key in delivering great design solutions and detail for our customers, taking proactive ownership to overcome design constraints and deliver a great customer experience for our clients.

This role will be a hybrid role, based between our office in Billericay, Essex and home but we would also consider applicants from across the UK working remotely if you have the suitable skill set.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Management and delivery of range of projects for all RIBA Stages from feasibility through planning up to the handover across various range of sectors.
• As a proactive and engaged team-player, you ll be supporting and facilitating the development of team colleagues, as well as working collaboratively with other teams within the wider business
• Delivering a high quality of professional service on time and within budget.
• Attending sites and carrying out landscape appraisals.
• Working pro-actively and developing strong relationships with clients and the wider construction and professional services team.
• Dealing with enquiries and preparing Landscape Fee Proposals /Tenders bids for all stages of works
• Write Specifications using NBS Chorus
• Establishing project and client brief requirements, presenting proposals to the client, and dealing with enquiries
• Liaising or responding with Local Planning Authorities on client s behalf
• Preparing drawings, Design & Access Statements and landscape reports for various stages of projects using range of programmes including Autocad, Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUp & Microsoft Office .

What we offer;

At Ground Control we believe in rewarding our employees for their hard work. We offer a wide-ranging benefits programme inspiring you to realise your full potential;

• Being part of a Sunday Times 2019 Top Track 250 Company & London Stock Exchange Group s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain
• We inclusively support The Race at Work Charter , Ban the Box , The Armed Forces Covenant and are Disability Confident
• A supportive, entrepreneurial working environment that fosters collaboration
• We believe that no job is too urgent or important not to be done safely and embed this Safety culture throughout the business
• Training, development, coaching and mentoring opportunities, with clear career path progression
• Match funding for employee fundraising and 2 personal choice volunteering days
• We invest 5% of our profits into the Evergreen Fund, an investment fund dedicated to sustainability and environmental initiatives.
• By 2025 we have committed to planting 1,000,000 trees, having a fully electric fleet, and being carbon neutral
• Cycle to work, Travel loans
• Bupa employee support & Free Flu Jab & subscriptions to an online GP service and
• Calm, the wellbeing app

Who are we looking for?

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Landscape Architect who is looking for a change in a dynamic expanding business.

Within this role, there is an opportunity to play a key role in the growth and development of the Landscape Architecture team and therefore we welcome applications from ambitious individuals who can demonstrate high quality consultancy experience and a proven ability for winning work, retaining clients and delivering a great customer experience for our clients.

Ground Control is seeking highly motivated industry leading professionals who can demonstrate a blend of technical design expertise, along with proven project management skills and sector experience.

The candidate will ideally have some, but not necessarily all, of the following:

• Chartered status and relevant degree/master s degree in Landscape Architecture with min 5 years experience
• Strong design skills and be highly proficient in AutoCAD, NBS Chorus and Adobe software packages. Knowledge and skills in GIS and SketchUp are desirable.
• Have solid plant knowledge of commonly used trees, shrubs and hardy perennials and show a willingness to learn.
• Experience and solid knowledge on preparing planning and technical drawings for hard landscaping.
• Have strong knowledge of UK legislation relating to design, specifically Part M & K of Building Regulations.
• An effective and confident communicator or (both written and oral) to a broad audience, with the ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders both internal and external.
• An engaging and approachable manner, with a natural ability to problem solve, provide positive and realistic solutions with a commercial mindset.
• Ability to prepare and input into detailed project programming.
• Sector experience with a sound understanding of landscape planning (Development Consent Orders) surrounding nationally important infrastructure projects.
• An ability to think strategically, conceptually, and analytically while maintaining a focus on wide-ranging or long-term implications.
• Experience of working in design and build environment or contract delivery stages of a project.
• Experienced in preparing LVIA, feasibility studies and mitigation strategies.
• Experience at drafting planning compliant reports (skills in both technical report writing and in the preparation of graphic material are required).
• Experience in Public realm, housing, retail, hospitality, podium design
• BIM and Revit knowledge
• Experience in preparing D&A Statements and Landscape Strategies
• Experience in tendering/bid tender
• Experiencing in budgeting

If you are interested in the role please send your CV and portfolio with role relevant samples of work alongside an expression of interest cover.

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