Job Description
Senior Landscape Design Manager
Location: Birmingham or London (Hybrid 3 days in office/Site)
Multiple Site offices along line of route between London to Birmingham
Salary: £70 77,500 & up to £83,672 in London + 12% Pension
We are recruiting a Senior Landscape Design Manager to join the delivery team working on the High Speed Two programme. This is a rare opportunity to lead high-impact landscape and public realm design right across the HS2 programme where you will be part of a project delivering 3,500 hectares of landscape and ecology mitigation, including planting 8 million trees and 400,000 meters of hedgerows.
This is your chance to join the largest landscape project of its kind in Europe. As a Senior Landscape Design Manager, you will play a critical client-side role in shaping a lasting green legacy for the UK. Your work will be essential to HS2 s long-term vision aims to leave a positive environmental legacy by conserving and enhancing habitats, even as it builds a major new railway.
Reporting to the Head of Landscape, you will join a small, expert team as the third senior manager at this level. This is a strategic role focused on oversight and assurance, not hands-on design. You will be the client's "strong voice in the room," ensuring the project's landscape commitments are met to the highest standard. The Green Assets and main works civils are in Construction delivery & detailed design stage so looking for someone who can provide oversight and assurance on landscape design and also have site delivery experience on large landscaping projects parks, highways, rail, large construction sites, regeneration projects etc
With 10 years remaining on the HS2 programme this role offers career opportunities both in the Landscape Design and Asset Management teams.
The Role
- Act as the Landscape Design Subject Matter Expert (SME), setting strategic objectives and assuring design & Construction delivery quality across multiple contracts.
- Provide specialist technical leadership, guidance, and verification to ensure compliant, value-for-money landscape design solutions.
- Work closely with multidisciplinary delivery teams, Main Contractors, Construction Managers, NEC Supervisors, Environment and Planning teams, and site staff to meet programme milestones.
- Oversee on-site verification of landscape works, long-term maintenance/monitoring, and delivery of landscape mitigation outcomes.
- Support handover and transition activities, including verification of green assets.
Requirements
- Degree in Landscape Architecture (or equivalent) and ideally Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute.
- Proven leadership as a subject matter expert in landscape and or public realm design.
- Experience managing or overseeing landscape delivery on large, complex infrastructure projects.
- Strong understanding of design assurance, delivery stages, cost, schedule, and multidisciplinary dependencies.
- Ability to influence, challenge, and verify landscape schemes through design, delivery, and handover stages.
- Significant experience in large-scale infrastructure projects. HS2 experience would be hugely beneficial.
- The confidence to challenge contractors and act as a decisive client representative.
- Holding contractors to account using contractual tools to drive performance
