Landscape Architect / Landscape Planner in Newport

Landscape Architect planner role to be based out of a busy Bristol office. Occasional travel may be required for specific project needs such as meetings or site visits.

The Group is one of the UK's leading independent environmental consultancies, underpinned by a growing team of experts in environmental policy, strategy, design, and assessment.

With offices in London, Bristol, Warrington, Leeds the office comprises of four specialist sister companies.

Over the last 30+ years, they have achieved sustained growth and honed our provision of high-quality services, while securing a large volume of repeat business from satisfied clients.

Employ the best people to provide the highest quality advice.

• Provide a personal service.
• Design innovative cross-disciplinary solutions.
• With a proven track record of success, the Group has been involved with UK Government expert groups and European Commission working groups, provided expert evidence at Public Inquiries, and helped clients gain planning consent for thousands of projects.

This client is underpinned by our values of Community, Collaboration and Integrity - developed by our staff members to reflect their shared principles, approach to their work, and positive company culture.

They are looking for a senior landscape planner (Principal Consultant to Technical Director level) to lead and grow their existing landscape planning service.

You can expect to enjoy a challenging and varied role and will typically be authoring and providing input to a range of technical landscape and visual assessments.

You will be working alongside their EIA managers and other aspect technical experts, as well as their landscape design team.

You will be involved in delivering a number of existing projects including solar farms, wind farms, gas to grid biomethane plants.

You will have a client-facing role with responsibility of managing project teams and project delivery, as well as winning new work and growing the team.

You will also be a team player, happy to share knowledge, collaborate and support others and demonstrate an interest in sustainable landscape solutions as part of the assessment and design process.

External training will be

Chartered landscape architect with CMLI qualification (or on the P2C) - Good knowledge of the UK planning system, planning guidance and policy context

• Site and photography experience for landscape and visual assessments
• Fluent spoken English with excellent verbal, written and graphic communication skills
• Technical skills and proficiency in Autodesk, GIS software and Adobe Creative Suite
• Full UK driving licence

Degree level qualification in Landscape Architecture or recognised equivalent.

• A Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute or on the P2C.

They are a growing Group of companies that wants to do things differently, with an exciting future that will help you shape and realise your ambitions.

Alongside a competitive salary, they offer a range of formal benefits and training, and development programmes to enhance employee satisfaction and professional development.

These include, an enhanced pension scheme, private medical insurance, competitive annual leave entitlement which grows with length of service, additional annual leave purchase scheme, rail and bus season ticket loans, cycle scheme, group life assurance, staff training and CPD programme, employee recognition awards, social value programme and more.

Furthermore, they ensure we can support their employees through offering wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals.

These include flexible working, trained mental health first aiders, and readily available support through their Employee Assistance programme.