Landscape Architect

Location/s: Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow or Edinburgh; UK
Recruiter contact: Emma Cantley

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Environmental and social considerations are central to Mott Mac Donald’s Purpose and its offerings across all sectors and territories. Our environment and social business provides essential services and innovative solutions which anticipate our clients’ needs across all sectors.

Mott Mac Donald’s landscape architecture and urban design team has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Landscape Architect (Grade

D) to join its established Leeds landscape team, supporting delivery of design, assessment and planning work across the region and wider UK. The ideal candidate will have a high level of personal motivation and in return will be provided with excellent opportunities to develop into a key member of the expanding landscape team and environment division at Mott Mac Donald.

Initially you will fulfil a key project role on a range of technical design and assessment projects, supporting existing landscape team members and collaborating closely with clients and multi‑disciplinary teams. As the position develops it is expected that you will take on an increasingly active role in leading work packages, supporting team development, and contributing to work winning with the support of the wider landscape practice.

• Undertaking site visits and working closely with clients and project teams to develop and refine scheme designs
• Leading the production of visualisations, conceptual and detailed design outputs, associated contract drawings, presentation drawings, schedules, specifications and photomontages for landscape and urban design projects
• Managing the delivery of landscape outputs to programme, cost and quality requirements, including coordinating inputs from other disciplines where required
• Providing project management support, including financial management of landscape deliverables and leading small project teams / work streams
• Supporting the landscape team leader to deliver practice and divisional business development strategies, including contributing to bids and proposals
• Raising the profile of landscape architecture within Mott Mac Donald through contributing to publications, knowledge sharing and industry engagement

• Leading or supporting the delivery of BNG / nature recovery inputs as part of multi‑disciplinary schemes, ensuring landscape design responds to BNG requirements while also meeting wider project objectives (planning, constructability, maintenance and stakeholder needs)
• Shaping better outcomes through early landscape engagement — contributing to feasibility and optioneering stages so landscape, arboriculture, ecology, water and engineering constraints/opportunities are integrated early (reducing planning and delivery risk)
• Applying climate resilience thinking in design development (e.g., resilient planting strategies, blue/green infrastructure, soils and establishment considerations), and supporting designs that deliver wider environmental and wellbeing outcomes
• Using digital and AI‑enabled tools responsibly (where…