JOIN OUR TEAM: Landscape Architect

JOIN OUR TEAM

Job Role: Landscape Architect

Working at Camlins

Camlins is a friendly, diverse team. We enjoy helping each other and value contributions from everyone. We have 18 people, so we all know each other. Camlins is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Camlins is based in Shrewsbury, a beautiful historic town set in the Shropshire Hills, near to the Welsh border. Shrewsbury is well connected by train with the Midlands, London and the rest of Britain. We work in all parts of UK, Ireland and beyond.

We have a clear responsibilities and review structure, helping everyone to plan individual progress. All staff are supported in pursuing professional goals, including a CPD programme and out-of-office visits.

Our commissions range in scale from large masterplans and urban parks, through to roof terraces and private gardens. We enjoy all work stages, from project inception through planning, detailed design, tender, implementation on site to completion. We offer a huge range of roles for all staff, with continual review to ensure everyone has well rounded experience and can also take up any particular preferences.

Furthermore, we work with some of the very best architects, engineers, ecologists and other professions currently in practice, making our working lives fascinating, instructive and enjoyable.

We enjoy organised out-of-office activities, normally monthly, often with family and friends joining us.

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and talented individual to join our team. As a landscape architect in our team, you will be responsible for working on a diverse range of projects spanning all the RIBA stages, including developing communicative design information such as sketches, plans and reports for client and design team presentations, representing the practice at public consultation events, coordination and communication with wider design teams and producing detailed CAD based information for tender and construction.

Responsibilities

Creation of communicative information such as reports, sketches, diagrams and plans to help illustrate the landscape proposals
Production of CAD based technical information
Producing clear and concise emails
Forward facing role where you will need to travel and communicate with the public at consultation events, engage in discussion with wider design team members (architects etc.) in workshops and DTMs, assist in communication with client team members
Ability to organise and lead design workshops when required
Working collaboratively with other staff within the office and within multi-disciplinary design teams
Assist with junior staff training (imparting knowledge)
Assisting the team with future work creation, by helping with tenders, bids and competitions
Research and develop new details and technical information and share with the team to help with continuous office progression
Responsible for tracking own time and managing budgets on projects
Responsibility for sharing information outside of the practice e.g. uploading to relevant file share sites
Responsibility for filing outgoing and incoming information for own projects
Working with in the current office systems for continuity across the office and outlining ways that we can improve
Assist with ongoing CPD activities

Qualifications and Skills

2+ years of industry experience
Being chartered is a benefit but not essential (as a practice we like to help our team reach their goals and can assist with the Pathway to Chartership process)
Flare and design creativity, to bring innovative points of view to the team and our clients
Clear verbal and written communication skills
Fluency with 2D CAD software is essential, preferably in Vectorworks, but other experiences would be considered
Understanding of our profession’s responsibility towards sustainability and biodiversity
Fluent in InDesign
Preference for fluency in Photoshop
Experience of managing junior staff
Previous experience with industry standard file sharing sites is preferable e.g. Aconex, Trimble, A360
Familiarity with SketchUp and / or 3D Vectorworks is beneficial
Experience working in multi-disciplinary design teams

Salary and Benefits

26k+ starting salary
Workplace pension scheme with employer contributions
35 days paid annual leave
Professional subscriptions paid
Support for candidates working towards professional qualifications/chartership
Monthly fun team social activities
Annual personal CPD days to use wherever you choose
Team trips and study tours