Job Summary

The Design Landscape Architect leads the delivery of landscaping design projects. He works closely with Team Leaders, Associate Principals and design teams to develop different landscape design options and to refine selected designs across the project design cycle, including conceptual landscape designs, preliminary, final detailed designs, tender documents, issue for construction for projects. The jobholder shall stay abreast of the latest trends and developments in landscaping design and share his knowledge with team members.

Key Responsibilities

• Support in conducting site surveys and investigations, as needed
• Review site surveys
• Conduct data collection from all concerned entities in collaboration with local teams, including climate, meteorology, soil specifications, water sources, local species, natural hazards, etc.
• Develop a data inventory system and archive necessary data to share with project team members, as needed
• Analyse collected data and identify main design constraints and key challenges, and periodically meet with design teams of other specialisations to integrate landscape design constraints, as needed
• Produce a data collection report for projects, highlighting all collected and missing data
• Develop different landscape design options for projects, during strategic and master planning phase in coordination with Urban Designers, Urban Planners, Architects, Irrigation Engineers and other relevant design teams, as needed
• Develop alternative conceptual landscape designs for projects reflected in the form of plans, sections, mood boards, perspectives, and material boards, as appropriate
• Develop landscape concept design in the next phases: schematic, detailed, tender, IFC
• Refine selected landscape design option into preliminary and final detailed designs, projects in coordination with other design disciplines, including the development of required drawings and graphical materials, as needed
• Develop landscape tendering documents and closely work with the Quantity Surveying Department for the development of final specifications, landscape palettes, Bills of Quantities and Conditions of Contract
• Develop the tender process
• Review and conduct design checks for designs, in coordination with Landscape Architects

Specific Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture
• From 5 to 10 years of experience in landscaping design in a top tier regional / multinational engineering consultancy firm or in a boutique landscaping firm
• Proficiency in written and spoken English & Arabic 
• Experience in the Middle East and internationally, if possible
• Landscape design from pre-concept to IFC
• Construction supervision is a +: not mandatory
• Good horticulture knowledge is a +
• Very Important: Revit proficiency to a BIM Coordinator level is an obligation
• Civil 3D is highly recommended, not an obligation
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Adobe suite, especially Photoshop and Illustrator, is recommended