Senior Landscape Architect

Job description / Role

- Overseeing the design for a variety of project aspects, including urban regeneration schemes, pedestrian schemes, road or retail schemes, and maintaining the character of sites and natural beauty.
- Review and coordinate any necessary revisions to specifications with the designer, general landscape requirements for hard and soft landscaping and their materials in accordance with the owner’s vision and requirements.
- Assessing a site's potential to meet the client's specifications.
- Review environmental impact assessments; seeking and taking into account the views of local residents, potential users, and parties with a vested interest in the project.
- Review detailed plans and working drawings, including applications, construction details, local authority regulations and specifications, appropriate use of hardscape and plant materials for the project using computer-aided design (CAD) packages or similar design software.
- Reviewing the design concepts with the client, dealing with enquiries and negotiating any amendments to the final design.
- Matching the client's wishes with your knowledge of what will work best.
- Liaising with other stakeholders on the project, attending meetings (and managing those related to the Public Realm) with the client, master planner and the contractor.
- Review and give recommendations on Value Engineering.
- Technical review of tender documents and returned tenders, provide input on the selection of a design-build contractor and manage and leading cross-functional teams.
- Monitoring and checking work on-site.

Requirements

To be successful in this role we envision that you will bring a BSc Landscape Architecture/Master Planning or equivalent) partnered with a minimum 15 years’ industry specific design, construction and management experience on projects of similar size and complexity.

Excellent knowledge of AutoCAD, REVIT, and MS Office Suite is required.

Arabic communication skills will be viewed favourably.

KEO’s performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. Comprising over 60 different nationalities we embrace diversity and recognise its’ contribution to client success wherever we work.

Our generous remuneration packages are bespoke and provide a wide range of additional benefits to support both national and expatriate employees and their families. We take pride in offering long term and dynamic career opportunities and invest in our people through our global learning, development and leadership programs.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.

About the Company

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 57 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is ranked by ENR in the Top 225 International Design Firms; in the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms; and by World Architecture as 50th largest global architecture firm and #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2021 WAS 100 Survey.

We invite you to join us.