The VacancyStephenson Halliday has been at the forefront of creating opportunities through innovative projects for decades. Our collaborative, dedicated, and solutions-focused team consistently delivers excellence from project inception to implementation and beyond, benefiting our clients, communities, and the environment.
Are you an ambitious
Landscape Architect with experience in Landscape Planning or LVIA, particularly in the
minerals sector? If so, we want to hear from you!
We offer exciting career opportunities in various locations, including
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Kendal, Manchester, Leeds, Derby, Wetherby, Coventry, and Hemel Hempstead. We support
flexible, part-time, and hybrid working arrangements, so contact us to explore how we can shape your next career move.
As a member of the RSK group, Stephenson Halliday leverages a wealth of expertise and resources across the group, enabling us to deliver bespoke, comprehensive solutions for any challenge.
Why chose Stephenson Halliday as your next employer? - A supportive team environment with flexible working options
- Financial support for training and professional memberships
- Access to a wide variety of training courses through our online learning portal
- Participation in charity, social value, and volunteering initiatives
- Recognition as a Centre of Excellence
- Employee recognition awards
- Comprehensive support for your physical, mental, social, financial, and environmental well-being
Join us and contribute to impactful projects that make a difference. Let's talk about how we can help you achieve your career aspirations.
Role Responsibilities - Lead and Innovate: Take the professional lead in landscape planning, guiding and mentoring staff through their professional development. Ensure the retention and growth of technical expertise within the team, fostering an environment of continuous learning and innovation.
- Collaborate and Grow: Work closely with our Planning/EIA lead to expand our portfolio in the minerals sector across the UK. Build on our stellar reputation for high-quality Planning, EIA, and Landscape services. This role involves driving the growth of our project pipeline, nurturing client relationships, managing resources, and ensuring the delivery of top-tier work through collaboration across Stephenson Halliday and the broader RSK Group.
- Inspire and Lead Technically: Provide technical leadership within your specialty, setting the standard for methodologies and approaches. Inspire your team by promoting excellence, encouraging rigorous review and innovation, and maintaining the highest quality standards.
- Versatile Project Execution: Conduct landscape and visual appraisals, feasibility studies, and screening and scoping studies, with a particular focus on minerals, renewable energy developments, and infrastructure projects. Be prepared to work flexibly, adapting to different project types, timelines, and locations.
- Expert Assessment and Design: Author comprehensive assessments of Landscape, Townscape, and Seascape Character, as well as Visual effects, both as standalone appraisals and for Environmental Statement (ES) chapters. Design and implement mitigation and enhancement schemes that align with project goals and environmental standards.
Person Specification - Experience undertaking landscape planning / LVIA for minerals projects (quarry extensions, site restoration)
- Excellent report writing skills.
- Driving Licence and willing to travel across the UK.
- Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute CMLI
Salary and Benefits - £30,000 - £60,000 plus dependent on experience
- Life assurance
- A flexible benefits programme including the option to buy additional holidays, health cash plan and discounted gym membership
RSK Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer
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RSK will not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies other than RSK PSL or Secondary agencies.About UsAs a team of experienced planning and landscape directors, landscape architects, chartered planners, graphics specialists, and practice managers, our mission is to provide effective and sustainable planning and landscape architecture solutions to assist clients in realising their development aspirations.
Founded in 2001 and now operating across the UK and Ireland, we work across the energy, infrastructure, minerals, waste, and built and rural development sectors. Whether we are improving the visitor experience in our most treasured national landscapes, planning and designing residential communities, or supporting the country's vital infrastructure, our employees get to work on a variety of exciting projects that help to move development forward. Come and join our successful and expanding organisation!
Stephenson Halliday is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.
At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.
Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's people-first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.
By providing workplace adjustments, we make it easier for people to confidently explore and pursue our career opportunities and recognise that flexibility is key to fostering a dynamic and thriving workplace. Many of our office-based positions benefit from a flexible working arrangement, allowing our team members to achieve a balance between professional and personal commitments.
We actively encourage applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, ages, neurotypes, religions or beliefs, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities.
If you're passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?
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Annual Leave Purchase
Cycle to Work Scheme
Discounted Gym Membership
Mental Health Support
Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
