Principal Landscape Architect (UK WIDE)

Overview

As a Principal Landscape Planner at AECOM, you will lead landscape planning across regional and global projects, shaping regeneration, energy transition, and infrastructure schemes. You’ll work within a multidisciplinary team to influence design from early stages, supporting net-zero goals and delivering environmental and social benefits. Your role combines technical leadership, client engagement, and team mentorship in a collaborative, innovative environment. This is a chance to impact large-scale projects and advance landscape planning at a global firm.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid work options
• Wide range of compensation and well-being programs
• Equal opportunity employer
• Disability Confident Employer
• Focus on equity, diversity and inclusion
• Opportunity for professional development and mentoring

Responsibilities

• Conduct site surveys and analyses using innovative methods to inform outcomes
• Produce or supervise reports, drawings, and technical documents for development and design stages
• Manage client relationships and respond to client needs
• Lead client-facing communications, including conferences, meetings, and workshops
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to develop the team and maintain technical excellence
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to improve project delivery
• Take on project management tasks including budgeting and programme management
• Understand and apply AECOM procedures to projects

Key requirements

• Technically competent in preparing LVIAs and TVIAs and evidence-base documents per best practice
• Strong knowledge of the UK planning system related to landscape architecture
• Experience in project management, budgeting, and programme control
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Competent in AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Cloud (preferred)
• Experience with ArcGIS, AutoCAD Civils 3D, Revit, LSS or ProjectWise would be useful

• Client-facing with strong communication
• Mentoring and leadership capability
• Team player with collaborative mindset
• AutoCAD
• Adobe Creative Cloud
• ArcGIS

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