Chartered Landscape Architect

Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a Chartered Landscape Architect with relevant post-chartership experience to join our growing Landscape Architecture team in Birmingham. As part of one of the UK's leading multidisciplinary design consultancies, you will have the opportunity to work on a diverse portfolio of landscape planning, assessment and design projects that help shape sustainable places and communities.

Our team deliver landscape and visual impact assessments, environmental assessment work, and strategic landscape advice on nationally significant infrastructure and water industry projects. Alongside this, we are involved in an exciting range of Education, Public Realm, Regeneration and Transportation projects, offering opportunities for candidates with both technical assessment expertise and a passion for creative landscape design.

We are an innovative and collaborative landscape studio that values creativity, technical excellence and professional development. Working closely with colleagues across architecture, planning, ecology, urban design and engineering, you will play an important role in project delivery from feasibility and concept development through to detailed design and construction.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive team with ambitious growth plans, where you will contribute to impactful projects across the UK while continuing to develop your own career. Whether your strengths lie in landscape planning, design, or a combination of both, AtkinsRéalis offers the scale, variety and multidisciplinary environment to help you reach your full potential.

If you are looking for a fresh challenge and want to be part of an innovative, people-focused design studio that values collaboration, technical quality and creativity, we would love to hear from you.

Your role

• Deliver landscape design projects from feasibility through to detailed design and construction.
• Prepare technical reports, tender submissions, and site inspection documentation.
• Undertake and contribute to Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIA) and Landscape and Visual Appraisals (LVA).
• Provide landscape advice to internal teams and external clients.
• Manage project workload and support project financial performance.
• Support contract documentation, site supervision, and quality assurance processes.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across infrastructure, education, public realm, and regeneration projects.
• Mentor junior team members and assist with resource planning and business development activities.

About you

• Degree qualified in Landscape Architecture and Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI).
• Relevant experience post-chartership in a Landscape Architecture role.
• Experience delivering multidisciplinary projects, ideally within transport, education, flood infrastructure, and urban regeneration sectors.
• Strong landscape design skills with experience undertaking LVIAs using GLVIA3 and DMRB methodologies.
• Understanding of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), contract documentation, site supervision, and BIM processes.
• Proficient in AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite; exposure to Revit and hand-drawing skills are advantageous.
• Excellent communication, presentation, research, and report-writing skills with the ability to produce high-quality outputs.
• Proactive, commercially aware, and self-motivated team player, capable of managing deadlines, budgets, and working effectively within multidisciplinary teams.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.