Landscape Assistant
Would you like to be part of an employee-owned, multi award-winning architecture practice whose desire is to make spaces and places that improve lives?
We are a UK and Ireland practice but with strong regional connections where all studios work collaboratively as one which is fundamental to our success. Some of our recent accolades include:
- Best Companies Top 50 Best Mid-sized Companies to work for 2023.
- Winner Building Awards: Architectural Practice of the Year 2022 & 2023
- Winner Building Awards: Every Person Counts, the people strategy award.
- Winner AJ100 Sustainability Innovation of the Year 2022.
- Winner AJ100 Awards Employer of the Year Award 2021.
We are seeking an enthusiastic Assistant Landscape Architect, who has completed a Post Graduate Masters in Landscape Architecture, to join our Landscape, Masterplanning & Urban Design Team.
The successful candidate should ideally also have a BA (Hons) or Bsc (Hons) Undergraduate studies in Landscape Architecture, along with at least two years out in industry, working in a landscape practice.
You get the opportunity to work on a range of projects in an inspiring and integrated design environment, alongside Architects and Interior Designers. Projects will vary in scale and complexity across our core sectors. You will need to be able to work as part of a team, be self-motivated and an enthusiastic candidate, with a passion for design and learning.
Required skills for the role:
- A passion for design and sustainable approaches to design;
- Good communication skills;
- Have some experience in CAD skills in Revit, ArchiCAD, or AutoCAD;
- Experience in using Adobe InDesign; Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop;
- Have experience with NBS Chorus or similar;
- Have worked on projects that cover RIBA work Stage’s 3 Detail Design and Stage 4 Technical delivery;
- Ideally have experience with PlantPartner, CS ArtisanRV, ENVIRONMENT for Revit or similar.
For candidates that have already started their Pathway to Chartership with the LI, we can continue to support these studies through our mentoring scheme.
Due to upcoming project commitments, we would require you to be able to start with the company in early 2025 subject to right to work checks.
Our Award winning schemes have included:
- The Wave, University of Sheffield – Design Excellence South Yorkshire Property Insider Awards 2023
- The Concourse, Public Realm, Sheffield – Civic Trust Awards Regional Finalist;
- Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh;
- The Movement Public Realm, Greenwich; and
- RIBA Home 2030 Design Competition- Finalist.
We offer a blended work model with a flexible approach to studio and remote working, along with a friendly studio environment, an award-winning lifestyle package, and a commitment to your personal development through the HLM Academy. We are also an Employee Owned Trust, which means our employees have a sense of ownership, a say in our direction and are rewarded for the part they play in our future success.
Diversity, inclusion and belonging (DIB) is at the core of our business. We advocate equal opportunities, creating an inclusive working environment for all. If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different mode, please contact our HR team for assistance.
If you think this role could be for you, please apply through our website and upload your CV, a covering personal statement, and three to four examples of your portfolio.
- Department
- Landscape Architecture
- Role
- Landscape Assistant
- Locations
- Cardiff, Glasgow, London, Sheffield
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Lifestyle Package
We provide a comprehensive Lifestyle Package to everyone which includes , paid subscriptions, bike to work scheme, Season ticket travel loans, additional maternity and parental leave, rewards and discount shopping vouchers and an annual training allowance. -
Health Cash Plan
We also provide a health cash plan with over £1,000 to spend on optical and dental treatments, wellbeing and complementary therapies, chiropody, health screening, 24 hour confidential advice line and 6 face to face counselling sessions each year. -
SMARTBlend
Recognising lifestyles are complex and we all have competing responsibilities, we offer a blended work model with a flexible approach to studio and remote working. This flexible approach supports job sharing, part time, term time and staggered hours, home working, back to work schemes for parents, keeping in touch days, career breaks, sabbaticals and condensed hours. We recognise no one size fits all. Providing a great studio environment is only part of the equation and flexible ways of working gives us more richness, diversity and choice for how we can work most effectively. -
Communicating, sharing & socialising
We're a sociable bunch and have a full social calendar providing a chance to further connect and involve families too. Our enthusiastic social committee organise a range of events to suit everyone from Angling to Zorbing. -
HLM Academy
The HLM Academy supports everyone along their career journey, capturing passions, driving innovation and equipping individuals with skills to navigate an ever-evolving world. It’s underpinned by a skills and behaviour framework and centred around our core values. Everyone is enrolled on day one, stepping into a bespoke learning pathway with insight from a profiling tool called PROPHET; recognising that all individuals are unique.
Workplace & culture
We would not be able to achieve what we do without the passion, commitment and enthusiasm of our team. Over 200 talented individuals fill our studios, connected at both regional and national level, bringing diversity of thought to every aspect of our business.
We work as one team across our studios, collaborating and sharing new ideas and best practice through open and honest communication, creating strong relationships and great friendships along the way.
Our nurturing culture encourages thoughtfulness and creativity, and we surround everyone with the right mix of resources and a working environment to energise and inspire; supporting everyone to grow and flourish.
About HLM Architects
We’re architecture, landscape and interior specialists with deep sector insight.
We listen and respond to the ambitions of our clients and understand the needs of the people who use the places and spaces we create.
Places of education that inspire, healthcare environments that nurture, homes that are part of thriving communities, and infrastructure that is sustainable in every sense. It is this sense of social purpose that drives us on and is at the heart of everything we do.
Landscape Assistant
Would you like to be part of an employee-owned, multi award-winning architecture practice whose desire is to make spaces and places that improve lives?
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