Senior Urban Designer

5 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Building Design Partnership Full time

**About the role**

We have a permanent position in our Bristol studio for a Senior Urban Designer to join our talented team of Landscape Architects.

We have ongoing international projects, including the German Embassy in Addis Ababa and G21 Airport Road in Abu Dhabi and a number of high-profile projects in the UK such as:
A landscape masterplan for the Whitchurch and Forest Farm campus for Cardiff Council, landscape design for the University of Worcester’s Severnside Campus Berrows House Building, exciting high density residential developments in Bristol and Woking along with developing therapeutic landscape designs for a range of significant health care projects.

**About you**

You will have excellent creative design skills, good relevant experience and a high level of IT proficiency and proven ability of working in CAD. Passionate about Landscape Architecture, you will be keen to develop your personal and professional skills in a supportive environment.

Key aspects of the role
- demonstrate a collaborative team-working style and enjoy working to tight deadlines an ability to provide leadership and mentoring to our team, and to projects at different scales and complexities
- be a designer with strong visual and written communication skills
- working in the Landscape team, you will be confident in taking responsibility for leading the landscape input on projects along with delegating and overseeing the work of the less experienced team members

Essential Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years’ post chartership experience is expected, to have the skills and knowledge required to undertake this role successfully
- working closely with architects, landscape architects, town planners and other consultants who work with BDP to deliver our commissions for both public and private sector clients

**About us**

Passionate about design and curious in nature, we are thought pioneers, innovators, and early adopters of new technologies. In a constantly changing world we enjoy creating and delivering clever solutions that add value to our clients whilst enhancing the environment and improving the everyday lives of the communities we serve.

We have grown to be one of Europe’s largest landscape practices through our enthusiasm for collaboration, our ability to deliver quality, and our ready access to a large collective of experts. Reliability and our ability to exceed expectations affords us a special status and capability in the design world.

Widely recognised as being one of the leading landscape design consultancies in the UK. We enjoy working collaboratively with our clients, stakeholders and communities and we strive to meet aspirations through contextually responsive solutions that improve people’s lives through the delivery of improved environments that are unique, healthy, welcoming, and inclusive to all.

The great thing about working as a place maker at BDP is the variety, scale and complexity of the projects we work on. One day we can be we crafting a bespoke street furniture detail, the next strategizing on entirely new settlements sometimes local sometimes global.

We are proud to have developed an award-winning portfolio of projects on a local, national and international scale. Creative about design, we enjoy a challenge and understand how to create inspirational places and landscapes from an original concept through to successful implementation. Assisted by our passion and our understanding of human behaviour, ecological science, regenerative design, politics, cost and logistics, we have an excellent track record of transforming visions and strategies into distinctive, stimulating, healthy and resilient places.

Our recent award-winning schemes have included:

- Sponge Park, our climate resilient park created in West Gorton, Manchester won the excellence in water management award in last year’s Landscape Institute Awards. The park is designed with nature-based solutions to ‘drink’ and absorb rainwater, thereby reducing flood risk.
- We worked alongside artist Wolfgang Buttress to relocate the HIVE from Milan to Kew Gardens. In 2016 The Hive won a Landscape Institute Award for its immersive impact. A beacon of contemporary art, it continues to stand tall as a striking symbol of the challenges facing bees today
- The Italian Gardens in Weston-Super-Mare won the best pedestrian environment category in the Street Design awards in 2019, they were shortlisted for the Pineapples Awards of that year

**BDP offers**

BDP offers a great opportunity for your personal development with exposure to the full range of our skills and expertise, as well as an attractive remuneration package that includes a competitive salary, flexible pension allowance, private medical insurance, contribution towards professional subscriptions, a stimulating working environment and excellent prospects for career advancement.

BDP appreciates the importance of training to develop all of its professional staff. Becoming a membe

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