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Full-time Graduate Landscape Architects or Landscape Architects sought to join the Liverpool studio of Planit-IE.
Our multidisciplinary studio in Liverpool is situated at the heart of the city centre, five minutes from the world famous waterfront and the retail mecca of Liverpool One and with Moorfields train station on our doorstep. We’re currently playing a pivotal role in some of the largest regeneration schemes in the region and beyond. You’ll be working on career defining projects and will be actively engaged in delivering exceptional public realm schemes A tight knit studio of passionate designers awaits and provides the potential for sustained career growth.
At Planit, we help to create better futures through collective design. Our dedication to quality, in everything we do, ensures we deliver extraordinary places.
About the role
As Landscape Architects and Urban Designers our projects often take place over decades, some covering hundreds if not thousands of hectares. These scales and perspectives put us at the forefront of being able to influence long-lasting positive change through the work we do.
As the first B Corp of our type in the world, we have a duty to practice what we preach, with a commitment to people and planet sitting equally alongside our better business aims. We are on the journey to becoming a carbon zero business by 2030 and through our membership of the B Lab Global Climate Collective we are collaborating with change makers both within and outside of the traditional built environment businesses.
You will be joining Planit at an exciting period, as we continue to collectively take forward our B Corp aspirations and ambitions and realise our goal to become an Employee-Owned practice this year.
We can be the change. Would you like to be part of that exciting exploration/ journey?
Essential qualities / attributes
- Post-graduate qualification in Landscape Architecture
- 0-2 years post-graduate experience working in Landscape Design for a Landscape Architect
Are you
- Willing to help drive the agenda for Landscape Architecture to lead the global carbon, climate and nature-led agenda
- Inspired to constantly inquire and solve problems through design at all scales?
- Someone with passion, self-belief and tenacity?
- Someone who genuinely enjoys and flourishes through collaboration?
Do you want to work for a design practice that
- As an accredited B Corp, is rooted in its responsibilities to society and the planet, and actively committed to pursuing better business as a force for adding social good?
- Has a passion for outdoor spaces and the role they play in the building blocks for life and society?
- Whose vision is to create and develop healthy and sustainable places and communities?
- Embraces its people in becoming an Employee Owned practice, and committed to continual employee engagement and inclusion?
Salary
- Graduate Landscape Architect up to £26K depending on experience
- Landscape Architect up to £35K depending on experience
Other benefits include
- Minimum 22 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- Company Pension
- Flexible working and Hybrid Working
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Free eye tests (for screen work)
- Ride to work scheme
- Support with professional fees, CPD and mentoring with your pathway to chartership
- Long Service Awards
Interested in joining our team?
Please upload an original cover letter, CV and details of your experience (max file size 5mb) to apply.
No postal copies. No agencies. We welcome applications for any future roles that may arise in Greater Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, London and Liverpool near Stroud.
As a B Corp accredited practice, we are keen to meet people with varied backgrounds. Our view is the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be, and the stronger we will become.
Whilst we appreciate the advantages of working within a collaborative design studio, we also understand the value to our team members of having an effective work life balance. Many of our team members work flexibly in different ways, including reduced hours and we are currently trialling hybrid working. Please talk to us at the interview stage if flexibility is needed. We may not be able to accommodate your requirements, but you will not be judged for asking, and we will give them careful consideration relative to our business needs.
Due to recent growth, we have also opened new studios in Leeds and Standish, Stroud. We have a great portfolio of projects at a variety of scales from region, city, and town, to block, street, square and park.
