Landscape Architect – Associate Director

Our multidisciplinary design studio, based in central Manchester, is looking for an associate director level landscape architect to join our team.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed individual to become part of an established studio team and in turn be a key member of the Place team within the wider Landscape, Design, and Assessment offer at SLR.  This is a key leadership role offering excellent further career opportunities within an organisation that is committed to the enhancement of our natural and built environment.

The current Place team in Manchester is engaged in some of the most exciting projects in the North of England and around the UK and Ireland.  The team is multidisciplined, covering landscape architecture, masterplanning, urban design, landscape planning and landscape and visual assessment.

The Manchester team collaborates closely with other disciplines and teams within the wider Landscape, Design and Assessment offer within SLR and together comprises over 100 like-minded professionals shaping responsible and innovative interventions in our natural and built environment, in a way that creates places for people and wildlife, helps to tackle the climate emergency and set the agenda for a more sustainable way of living.

Landscape, Design and Assessment is a significant part of, and influence within, SLR Consulting, enabling truly integrated design across the built and natural environment sector. For example, working with our SLR colleagues in transport and mobility, ecology, engineering, hydrology and natural capital allows us together to tackle some of society’s greatest challenges.

For further information about the Place team at SLR, please click here.

The role

You will play a key leadership role with other senior staff within the Manchester studio and the wider national Place team at SLR.  The role is based in Manchester, but will include involvement in local, regional and national Place team projects across the UK and Ireland.

Collaboration with other disciplines will be a key part of this role, working together to shape and design places in a creative and design-led way.

You will be involved in managing a variety of complex projects, alongside the wider team, at any one time, to lead on the development and delivery of place-led landscape projects and to grow and development a diverse project portfolio. This will include all stages of the design process from early advice, concept strategies, public consultation, through to planning submissions and delivery on site.

Your experience, design approach and track record will be critical to supporting the team through these stages.

You will be involved in a wide range of design challenges facing the natural and built environment.  You will work across our multidisciplinary Place team on some of the most significant development and regeneration projects throughout the UK and Ireland. Many of these are moving towards implementation as well as a number already on site, providing an excellent range of experience to enable you to progress in your career and those of others.

Key responsibilities will include:
•    Lead the landscape design offer of the Manchester Place team studio
•    Manage and develop colleagues within Manchester Studio which would include line management and coaching / mentorship
•    Use personal judgement and initiative to develop innovative and constructive design solutions
•    Manage established and new client relationships
•    Secure a supply of new projects, building up a backlog of work and prospects and negotiating fee proposals
•    Represent SLR Place Team at industry conferences and events
•    Manage and control project finances
•    Continue to update personal knowledge or relevant technical, legal and policy changes
•    Provide guidance on quality matters and technical issues
•    Seek to “add value” to all the work we do and to the Place team culture

If you want to make a difference, the opportunity exists within SLR.

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