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Job DescriptionDo you have experience of landscape planning and landscape and visual impact assessment (LVIA). We are looking for someone to join our specialist team as part of our award-winning design and landscape planning team.
About Us
Optimised Environments (OPEN) is a design and landscape planning practice with offices in Edinburgh, Manchester and London. We have around 75 people in our team, with a strong track record for staff retention. OPEN has recently become part of the SLR Group with offices located around the world. SLR is a global leader in environmental and advisory solutions helping clients achieve their sustainability goals. The coming together of OPEN and SLR provides a host of opportunities for career development and potential for work across a wide range of sectors and countries.
We are willing to consider a variety of different working practices depending on your capability and location and can be flexible in this regard. Our salaries and benefits packages are competitive and will be commensurate with your experience.
The Role
We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Landscape Architect or Landscape Planner to join the OPEN/SLR team with a view to specialising in landscape and visual impact assessment (LVIA) and landscape planning project work.
You could already be chartered or working towards chartership, for which we offer support and mentoring. The teams are involved in a diverse range of significant development and renewable energy projects throughout the UK and the Republic of Ireland. If you are successful, you will have the opportunity to further develop your skills and expertise, contributing to a wide range of exciting projects from mixed-use and urban re-development projects to Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, onshore and offshore wind farms and strategic housing promotion and development.
Our approach to landscape planning and assessment includes a strong emphasis on iterative analysis and design, to inform developments as part of mitigation by design strategies, so there are also opportunities for creative input into schemes through landscape planning inputs.
About You
The focus of this position is primarily on LVIA related work, and we are looking for candidates with demonstrable experience in this field in a senior role with project management skills. To be successful for the opportunity you must have LVIA expertise, excellent report writing skills, and have a full valid driving licence in the UK.
Our landscape teams have strong market presence across the UK. As such, this is an exiting time to join us and we can be flexible about which office you might wish to work in.
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To apply
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