Associate or Associate Director Landscape Architect or Landscape Planner

Role Overview

Working as an integral part of our with our award winning Urban Design Studio, leading on landscape planning and design aspects on a wide variety of exciting projects across the UK.

Please attach a sample portfolio of work to assist your application. This can be uploaded as an additional file.

Key Responsibilities

Landscape Design/ Landscape Planning

• Landscape masterplanning/Green Infrastructure design for a variety of projects
• Leading on Landscape and Visual Appraisals and Environmental Statements
• Landscape/Visual advice to inform the development process, including input to Vision Documents
• Landscape input throughout the planning process, including input to Design and Access Statements
• Preparation of landscape drawings, using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and AutoCAD
• Potential for detailed planting plans and specifications

Management and Business Generation

• Lead landscape architect on variety of projects, with support from Landscape Director
• Contributing to/leading pitches, tenders and fee proposals to win new projects.
• Be a positive mentor, supporting the development of skills and expertise within the team 

Key Skills

Qualifications
• Relevant degree / post graduate degree in Landscape Architecture.
• Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute with a minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience
• Full UK driving license

Professional Skills
• Highly skilled in landscape design and strategic green infrastructure planning
• Advanced knowledge and skills in undertaking Landscape and Visual Assessments.
• Experienced lead on LVIA and masterplanning projects, pitches and tenders
• Excellent written, design, and communication skills.
• Strong awareness of best practice in landscape and placemaking.
• Able to communicate clearly and have strong verbal presentation skills.
• Also helpful to demonstrate an understanding and skills in designing of the built environment (urban design, architecture) with a good knowledge of UK place making.
• Providing evidence at appeal and Examination in Public would be an advantage.

Personal Qualities
• Highly self motivated and positive attitude
• Strives to deliver an exceptional level of service to clients at all times.
• A passion for creating quality places and an enthusiasm for innovative design.
• A team player with an interest in mentoring and developing the skills of other team members.

Software Capabilities

• Adobe Creative Suite range of design software, including InDesign desk-top publishing (Skilled)
• Auto CAD (Skilled)
• 3D modelling (e.g Sketchup) - advantageous.
• 3D hand drawing skills photo montage Skills – advantageous 

Team Overview 

The successful candidate would work within the national Savills Urban Design Studio providing landscape and placemaking services to a wide range of clients, primarily across the UK and Ireland, and occasionally overseas. The Studio's reach is diverse, with a strong pipeline of significant projects including Government-backed Garden Villages, Strategic Urban Extensions, major urban mixed-use and commercial, tourism and leisure, in addition to a wide ranging land owner estate portfolios. We work for a wide variety of high profile clients, spanning public sector bodies and agencies, local authorities, charities, landowners, institutions, developers, promoters, national and regional house builders, commercial/leisure operators and investors.

The successful candidate will work as part of our national Urban Design Studio, primarily based in our Southampton Office but also working with teams based in our other Studio offices in London and Oxford. Savills Southampton is a rapidly growing multi-disciplinary office based in the centre of the city. This is an exciting and rare opportunity for the successful candidate to help grow both the national Studio and landscape architecture capability.

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Recruitment agencies

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Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.