Graduate Landscape Architect Redhill, South West England, England
Job description
Binnies an RSK group company is recruiting Graduate Landscape Architects to join our growing Landscape team in Redhill, part of a wider and also growing multi-disciplinary Environmental Services team. Binnies UK Ltd. is one of the UK's leading environmental and engineering consultancies, best known for our expertise in the water sector but with a rapidly expanding and diversifying portfolio. Projects typically include flood risk management and water infrastructure, with increasing emphasis on green / blue infrastructure, sustainable nature-based solutions, designing and planning for natural capital and Biodiversity Net Gain.
Binnies’ Landscape team, based between our Chester and Redhill offices, is an award-winning Landscape Institute Registered Practice. Having joined the RSK Group of companies, we are also part of one of the largest groups of landscape architects in the UK along with Stephenson Halliday and ADAS, offering a huge range of potential opportunities and excellent long-term career development, including supporting you along the Pathway to Chartership.
We would ideally like the successful candidate to work from either our Chester or Redhill office, however we are open to candidates based elsewhere in the UK.
Key Responsibilities:
To assist in the provision of landscape design services and advice
To assist with undertaking landscape surveys, assessments, and LVIAs
To assist with production of landscape drawings and graphics including analysis and constraints plans, concept plans, landscape masterplans, detailed construction and planting plans, illustrations and visualisations, exhibition boards for stakeholder / public consultation
To assist with landscape input to options appraisals, feasibility studies, landscape / green infrastructure / natural capital plans and strategies.
To assist with the co-ordination of the work of external consultants, including landscape architects
To assist in the provision of landscape site supervision / inspections and contract management services
To support and work with other disciplines such as EIA / Ecology / Engineering teams as required
Providing support on a wide range of projects including habitat creation, natural solutions, fluvial and coastal flood risk management, water utility, rail, renewable/ energy projects and other large scale infrastructure.
Liaising with project teams, clients, stakeholders, contractors, and internal professionals from a range of technical disciplines and the public.
Qualifications/Requirements:
The role is suitable for a landscape graduate who has completed their formal education and seeking to establish a career in the profession. You should possess and be able to demonstrate the following qualifications, skills and knowledge:
Degree / post graduate diploma (or Masters) qualification in landscape architecture, recognised by the Landscape Institute
Interest and experience in landscape assessment work
Interest in ecological design and habitat creation
Proficiency in AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite
Good written and oral communication
Ambition to work towards becoming a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute
Enjoy innovation and embracing advances in digital technology
Passion and advocacy for the landscape and environment.
Team player, self-reliant, well organised, confident communicator
Hold a full UK driving licence
Previous experience of working in landscape profession not essential but any relevant work experience is an advantage.
Why Join Us:
Would you like to work in a business where you feel empowered to grow? Where there is no place for criticism or discrimination? A place where people are mindful and respectful? If so, then Binnies is the place for you.
We have a strong ‘ENGAGED’ culture that runs through everything we do. Evolved over 100 years, we have a culture of caring, where our employee’s wellbeing and work-life balance are priorities, in fact we have industry leading flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We pride ourselves on providing an inclusive working environment, where a diverse workforce is supported to grow and develop.
Benefits:
- Competitive Salary
- Paid Landscape Institute Membership
- Hybrid Working
- Flexible benefits e.g. buy/sell annual leave, varying pension contributions, options for private healthcare
