Chartered Landscape Architect

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Arcadis is seeking a Chartered Landscape Architect for the Architecture & Urbanism (A&U) division within the Places global business area. This position can be located in Birmingham or Manchester, UK.

Arcadis is seeking a creative, motivated and Chartered Landscape Architect to join its growing UK Landscape Architecture team. In this role, you will work on a wide range of landscape, environmental, regeneration and infrastructure projects, contributing to some of the UK’s largest and most complex developments.

You will work both independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, engaging with in‑house specialists and high‑profile external designers. Projects span large‑scale masterplans, new towns, public‑realm strategies, Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs), and diverse local‑level schemes across all sectors.

• Lead and contribute to landscape design across concept, detailed and implementation stages.
• Prepare high‑quality drawings, sketches and digital models to communicate design concepts.
• Undertake Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments (LVIA) and contribute to environmental statements.
• Support master planning, urban regeneration and green infrastructure strategies.
• Manage small to medium‑scale projects autonomously, including programming and resource allocation.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated project outcomes.
• Work closely with clients, local authorities, consultants, and community groups to shape project outcomes.
• Build strong relationships and communicate effectively through reports, presentations and meetings.
• Adhere to the Landscape Institute’s Code of Conduct and uphold high professional standards.
• Mentor junior staff and contribute to team development and knowledge sharing. Based on chartered standards.

• Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI).
• Strong design skills, including hand sketching and visual communication.
• Experience producing LVIAs and environmental assessment work.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD, Sketch Up, and other relevant design tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrable report‑writing experience.
• Experience in delivery of small and medium sized schemes essential, large‑scale master planning and infrastructure projects preferable.
• Understanding of environmental planning, regeneration and sustainability principles.
• Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary settings with urban designers, engineers and planners.

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills‑based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet.

Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Work streams:
Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.