Job Description
Principal Landscape Planner
Do you want an integral role within a growing landscape team while working on a diverse portfolio of projects in the energy, transport, and regeneration sectors? Are you confident in supporting, briefing, and mentoring junior members of the team, and leading landscape planning elements of projects through all development stages? Are you comfortable preparing and giving landscape and visual evidence, or keen to add this capability to your skillset?
If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our Landscape team as our new Principal Landscape Planner and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.
Your new role
As our new Principal Landscape Planner, you will be part of our landscape specialism within Ramboll, a leading design, engineering, and consultancy company. We work as a national team with landscape architects based out of our Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, and Oxford offices. Ramboll operates a flexible working policy, and with this you will be part of an exciting team of experts, who respect each other and work towards creating sustainable societies where people and nature flourish.
Your key responsibilities will be:
1. Delivering landscape planning packages, through all project stages including client interface, feasibility, option selection, appraisal, assessment, stakeholder consultation, post-application, monitoring, and project management
2. Arranging and leading events/meetings with clients, stakeholders, and project teams
3. Working collaboratively with the wider landscape team and mentoring junior staff
4. Ensuring delivery of high-quality and technically accurate work by yourself and the team
5. Landscape input to business development activities, fee proposals and tender submissions
6. Utilising and exploring digital tools for design, assessment, and delivery of landscape projects
7. Site visits and technical photography as appropriate
8. Preparation of written and graphic materials for landscape planning outputs, including landscape and visual evidence
About you
9. A Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute
10. Experience in providing landscape planning advice to a range of sectors with a focus on renewable energy
11. Ability to work successfully and build relationships with colleagues and other consultants
12. Ability to manage teams towards successful delivery of projects
13. Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
14. Well organised and able to prioritise and manage their own and others workload with minimal supervision
15. Ability to use a range of IT packages such as Microsoft Office, GIS, and Adobe Creative Suite as required
Personal qualities that will help you succeed in this role include: a good understanding of other environmental, design and engineering disciplines capabilities and the interest and flexibility to work on a wide range of projects at all stages; working as a key member of the national landscape and environment teams in the delivery of projects, and; being able to work dynamically, not just within your own team – but with different teams or experts across Ramboll and external clients/consultant organisations.
What we can offer you
16. Commitment to your development
17. Leaders guided by our Leadership Principles
18. A culture that welcomes you as the unique person you are
19. Inspiration from colleagues, clients, and projects
20. The long-term thinking of a foundation-owned company
21. Flexible work environment
22. 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
23. Matched pension contributions
24. Private medical cover and life assurance