Senior, Principal or Senior Principal Landscape Architect/Planner

We are recruiting at Senior, Principal, and Senior Principal Landscape Architect levels, with flexibility to be based in our Manchester, Warrington, or London offices, with hybrid working as standard. Your work will be primarily focused on the water sector, where we are currently leading some of the most exciting and innovative schemes across the UK and Ireland. These include flagship projects of national importance, from the design of wetland areas and habitat improvements to Sustainable Drainage Systems and stormwater interventions that deliver real benefits for local communities.

Day to day, you will take the lead across a wide variety of project types and scales, providing landscape planning and design input at all pre‑ and post‑planning stages. You will cultivate strong relationships with clients and project teams, contribute to fee proposals, manage discipline tasks and undertake field and visual survey work across the UK. As a senior member of the team, you will also have the opportunity to influence how the team grows and evolves, helping to shape its direction whilst developing your own expertise within a Registered Practice of the Landscape Institute.

Your Impact: The projects on your desk will not be ordinary. Whether you are guiding a major infrastructure scheme through the planning process or designing a wetland that will become a community asset for decades, your judgment and creativity will be central to outcomes that matter well beyond the drawing board. You will also play an important role in developing the people around you, supporting colleagues and collaborating across disciplines within a team that believes great places are built by people who genuinely care about them.

Qualifications: You hold a degree or equivalent in Landscape Architecture or a related subject, and you are ideally a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute. You bring demonstrable experience preparing LVIAs and appraisals for UK planning applications, and you have a strong working knowledge of environmental planning, current UK planning legislation and EIA regulations. You are a confident communicator who understands client needs, thinks creatively and gives pragmatic advice that holds up under the pressures of time and budget. You are equally comfortable liaising with a broad range of stakeholders and managing your own workload with the discipline that complex projects demand. Most importantly, you are a genuine team player. You enjoy supporting the people around you, thrive in a collaborative environment, and are motivated by the idea of creating exceptional places that leave a lasting legacy for people, communities and the environment.

Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus schemes, enhanced pension plan, annual leave with the option to buy/sell additional days, private medical insurance, group income protection & life assurance included as standard, discounted gym membership and more. Hybrid/flexible working allows a healthy work‑life balance.

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