Landscape Architect

About ESP

Environmental Solutions through Partnership (ESP) is a multi-disciplinary environmental consultancy founded in 2004. We deliver our services by working closely in partnership with clients and with key consultancy partners who share our values and objectives. A partnership approach means building a long-term relationship with clients by ensuring that effective environmental solutions are provided that are appropriate to the brief, the customer’s needs, best practice and current legislation.

Our approach is consistent across the whole business. We work together as a team in a business which has a flat structure, rather than a heavy top-down hierarchy. Everyone is included at our board meetings and we are all encouraged to have a voice and shape the business. This means that whilst we can all work flexibly in terms of time of day and location, we benefit from supporting each other, keeping in touch and acknowledging each other’s needs so we don't feel isolated. We are all hard workers but are keen that we all sustain this through a good work-life balance. We have a well-being initiative called 'Thrive' which our employees tell us that they value.

We work together with our clients, design teams and planning authorities to create solutions that add value to the development, the environment and wider society. Our landscape projects are predominantly large-scale and rural where we are at the cutting edge of biodiversity net gain, habitat creation and landscape resilience for climate change. We also, unusually for a landscape practice, have specialist skills in landform modelling and visualisations due to our large mineral planning projects. We use our expertise in LVIA as part of the iterative design process: as a tool for ensuring that the development best responds to its landscape context and its stakeholders. We transfer all of these skills into other urban, suburban or smaller-scale projects.

We are professional, agile and creative.

Our work environment includes:

• Modern office setting.
• Wellness programmes.
• Growth opportunities.
• Being treated as an individual.
• All personnel attendance at quarterly Board meetings.

Duties and responsibilities

1. To have responsibility for the delivery of assigned projects and to assist colleagues in the preparation and implementation of other projects upon request.

2. To carry out thorough site appraisals and surveys and all necessary research prior to proceeding with projects.

3. To prepare masterplans, concept designs, restoration plans and detailed designs for a range of projects.

4. To prepare health and safety plans (under CDM regulations), contract documentation and specifications for the implementation of landscape work in accordance with the client’s brief and budget.

5. To carry out landscape and visual impact assessments, including desktop research, site and photographic surveys, identification of receptors, assessment of impacts and effects and preparation of mitigation and enhancement strategies.

6. To prepare reports at a variety of scales and work stages, including preliminary landscape and visual appraisals, landscape strategies, green belt impact assessments, maintenance and management plans and design and access statements.

7. On behalf of local planning authority clients, critically evaluate the landscape and visual aspects of proposed developments and provide clear, timely and evidence-based advice.

8. To assist in the production of proofs of evidence for planning inquiries.

9. To complete electronic time sheets and maintain awareness of the available fee and expense budgets for projects being undertaken

10. To prepare and submit monthly invoices and client statements of account for assigned projects.

11. To maintain and develop client relationships and to identify opportunities for and win new work

12. To undertake other associated duties commensurate with the position which may from time to time incidentally arise, develop or be assigned.

13. To ensure that company policies and procedures (including environmental and health and safety policies) are implemented at all times and raise any concerns regarding their operation or any other safety matters with the Directors.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Hybrid working.
• Workplace pension with Nest.
• Professional memberships paid.
• Expense account (Gold AMEX).
• Ability to hire cars for travelling to client sites.
• Flat management structure.
• 2 Volunteer days.
• Holiday off for a birthday.
• Paid holidays.
• Free on-site parking at the Office.
• Sick pay.
• Wellbeing programme.
• Work from home.

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday.

Supplemental pay types:

• Performance bonus (discretionary on performance/profitability of the Company).

Education:

• Bachelor's (required).

Experience:

• Landscape Architecture (required).
• Good knowledge of the United Kingdom's physical landscape.
• Knowledge of the United Kingdom’s planning system.

Office Location: 

• Creative Industries Centre, Wolverhampton Science Park, Wolverhampton, WV10 9TG.