Senior Landscape Architect

Salary: £600 per day

This role with our Central Government Client is 6 months long with a possibility for extension. This role is mostly remote working however there will be some travel to the Leeds office required around once a month. Some site visits are also likely to occur in the North of England, from York to Newcastle. The pay rate for this role is up to £600(Umbrella) / £370.53 (PAYE).

Job Description:

Some of the main responsibilities include:

– The consultancy advice supplied will ensure they take full account of their landscape duties under the Environment – Act and Corporate Plan requirements, including their carbon targets, when appraising, designing and constructing their schemes.

– The role is to provide advice to project teams developing capital schemes and strategies, primarily to manage flood risk but would include navigation in some CDT’s. This will include being proactively involved in defining the scope and input to the procurement of consultancy and works contracts including bid evaluation and quality assuring landscape and environmental design consultancy work. The “Bought in Service” (BIS) consultant will form a key member of a wider “virtual team” of landscape architects in other NEAS teams based elsewhere in England.

– Your advice will help manage landscape risks to projects, identify opportunities and deliver innovative, cost-effective environmental outcomes to varying scales of civil engineering infrastructure projects.

– Applicants should have a good knowledge and experience of strategic and landscape scale planning, green infrastructure, strategic approaches for developing multiple outcomes, landscape design and a thorough understanding of the requirements integral to the preparation of landscape contract documentation and administration.

– You will need to have effective communication and influencing skills and be able to work as a key adviser to project teams. You will work within a team of dedicated landscape architects, heritage, SEA and EIA expert advisers.

– The consultant will be expected to support landscape visioning work by working closely with the NEAS Landscape

– Lead or participate in projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing functional / specialist input to pro-actively manage environmental risk, and seek opportunities for efficiencies, partnership working and funding, socio-environmental improvements and sustainable outcomes.

– Build and sustain effective relationships with operational customers and partners (such as FCRM Area teams, EA Fisheries, Biodiversity and Geomorphology, PCM project managers, EA suppliers) to understand issues and provide effective response / steer to manage risk and support project development and progression.

– Ensure all reporting procedures are adhered to Environment Agency standards.

– Update the NEAS Senior Landscape Architect / Principal Landscape Architect and Consultancy Team Leader on a regular basis (monthly summary report +/or Project Service Plan/s) on progress, issues and their input to the projects they are working on.

Requirements

• Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute with three to six years post CMLI experience

• Educated at least to post-graduate level (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline, as required to meet standards of the Landscape Institute.

• Applicants should have a good knowledge and experience of strategic and landscape scale planning, green infrastructure, strategic approaches for developing multiple outcomes, landscape design and a thorough understanding of the requirements integral to the preparation of landscape contract documentation and administration.

• Effective communication and influencing skills are required as well as an ability to work as a key adviser within, and to, multi-disciplinary project teams.

• UK driving licence would be desirable as some travel is likely to be required