Landscape Design Manager in London

Base salary: £46,606pa to c.£58,963pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.

Location: London or Birmingham

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As Landscape Design Manager you’ll bring together information on Public Realm and Landscape from a complex range of sources in order to manage and guide the design integration to deliver the Objectives of the Design Vision, Design guidance, Environmental Minimum Requirements, Strategic Goals and Objectives, Benefits and cost compliant integrated delivery of the project. The role holder will provide qualitative assurance and verification to senior management level on key design issues across a defined geographic area working closely with members of the Integrated Project Teams and the Natural and Built Environment team in their technical assurance role.

About the role:

• Review and manage the technical assurance activities related to the design development and delivery of landscape areas (including public realm) for a defined geographic area as instructed by the line manager.
• Work cross programme to integrate a holistic and context driven design that meets the aspiration of the HS2 Design Vision and HS2 Landscape Design Approach benefits and programme requirements.
• Provide technical knowledge and advice at a manager level for the discipline of Landscape Design to the HS2 LTD Business.
• Collaborate with HS2 LTD colleagues and project disciplines cross programme at manager and senior manager level and promote an integrated approach to Landscape Design.
• Develop and maintain an active and close working relationship with project service consultants and stakeholders in order to ensure that Landscape Design requirements are fully understood and delivered.
• Provide briefings and presentations as and when necessary.
• Manage and guide design activities undertaken by project service consultants and carry out a critical review of key design deliverables.
• Provide regular updates to the Senior Manager Landscape Design (line manager), and the Landscape Lead – Routewide.
• Ensure safety is a key priority in all aspects of the role.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You:

Skills:

• Design skills relating to the development and design of soft and hard landscape areas (incl. Public Realm) as well as Landscape Masterplans.
• Design skills relating to the development of integrated places that achieve social, environmental and economic benefits.
• Ability to manage landscape design activities of medium to large scale projects.
• Ability to develop appropriate and cost balanced and high-quality design solutions working alongside design and technical specialists.
• Ability to manage multiple consultants.
• Communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work alone and to manage complex tasks.
• Ability to work as part of a diverse and highly skilled team.

Knowledge:

• Degree in Landscape Architecture or equivalent work experience.
• Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute or working towards LI’s Chartership.
• Understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets and the need to deliver an integrated, high-quality solution that meets all design and functional requirements.

Type of experience:

• Experience in managing medium to large landscape design projects at a senior management level covering stages from inception through to completion.
• Working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary management or design team and in conjunction with engineers, construction experts, architects and environmental specialists.
• Experience in site supervision of medium to large landscape construction projects.
• Experience in undertaking design reviews and critiquing to achieve high quality design proposals.
• Giving risk-based advice to stakeholders.
• Experience in developing pragmatic approaches to design challenges.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect. It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept. Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.