Stephenson Halliday is looking for a tenacious, high calibre Principal Landscape Architect to join their growing team nationwide. This is a full-time, permanent role, but Stephenson Halliday would consider those seeking part-time opportunities. Hybrid working options are available, with particular interest for candidates commutable to Manchester. You will be joining a senior landscape team that has an extensive and very successful track record of providing expert witness services at DCO examinations and public inquires, securing consents for a wide range development types across the UK.

We are particularly interested in applicants who have experience in renewables (solar/ battery storage), residential / commercial property, health/education, other infrastructure projects and strategic landscape planning

With offices across the UK, the team includes experienced planning and landscape directors, chartered landscape architects, chartered planners, environmental coordinators, and graphics specialists who provide clients with effective and sustainable solutions to help them achieve their goals. The multidisciplinary firm works in a variety of industries and offers professional services in four broad categories: planning, environmental impact assessment (EIA), landscape, and graphics. Nature-based solutions and landscape-led regenerative design are incorporated into landscape, research, and planning projects, including those in protected and sensitive landscapes. To improve green infrastructure and the built environment, we can draw on the expertise of our Building with Nature Approved Assessor and qualified Green Flag Award judges. Stephenson Halliday has a strong track record of obtaining planning permission at all project scales, from national infrastructure projects to small-scale local proposals, with design solutions that enhance not only the physical place but also the experience of our built environment and, ultimately, local communities.

Key Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with others within the business and the wider RSK Group to assist in generating new business.
• Take a proactive and responsible approach to risk management in progressing projects and potential opportunities.
• Take a proactive role in teams, lead on the delivery of discrete elements of work and support others to play their part in delivery.
• Assist in the development of others within the business and provide mentoring to more junior members of the team.
• Actively contribute to project inception and review procedures for projects (including internal projects/initiatives), with a focus on learning from and sharing experience.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead on delivery of projects or internal business functions of medium complexity.
• Actively manage projects and/or supporting business functions to deliver to cost, quality and time.

Person Specification

• Experience undertaking landscape planning / LVIA for renewables projects (wind energy / solar farm / battery storage), Experience of landscape planning / LVIA for other infrastructure projects (e.g. residential, commercial, mixed use, road, rail, energy distribution & transmission, water)
• Excellent report writing skills.
• Driving Licence
• Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute CMLI
• Post Graduate or Masters in Landscape Architecture
• Availability to work away from home as required

Salary and Benefits

• £39,000 – £50,000
• Life assurance
• A flexible benefits programme including the option to buy additional holidays, health cash plan and discounted gym membership

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RSK Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer

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