RECRUITMENT

 

Posted 20.04.08

 

BACKGROUND

We have many new & exciting projects for talented landscape architects in the UK & abroad. We seek highly creative and self motivated individuals to join our friendly team with high aspirations. You are looking for a dynamic career with prospects, a competitive salary and other benefits. You will be interested in our portfolio of work which is challenging and stimulating. You will want to be part of a small committed group of designers where you can have make a real contribution to developing fresh ideas. You will want to be valued and to have your imagination and design skills properly acknowledged. You are looking to relocate to an area of opportunities where you can enjoy sailing, kite surfing, windsurfing, walking, scuba diving, horse riding, climbing, etc.

 

All positions are based in our Weymouth office.

Please note: We currently have NO vacancies in our London office.

 

 

POSITIONS AT ALL LEVELS

• Senior Landscape Architects MLI + 4–5 years
• Landscape Architects MLI + 2–3 years
• Landscape Architects ALI  
• Year Out

 

 

SENIOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT MLI + 4–5 years
You are an able and experienced Landscape Architect with a number of years experience delivering high quality projects from early stages to completion and beyond. You are a confident and assured professional looking for a new challenge in an environment where you can make a significant contribution to design projects in the UK, Europe and the Middle East.

 

Ideally you will have:

• A broad range of experience representing a practice at client and design team and other meetings
• Project management experience at all stages
• Well developed design drawing and presentation skills
• A good knowledge and experience of high quality detailing
• Supervising large and medium scale contracts through all stages from inception to completion and beyond
• A talent for communicating with client and end user groups
• Extensive report writing experience
• A range of well developed software presentation skills including AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite.

 

 

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT MLI + 2–3 years
You will be looking to further your career in a practice that supports and acknowledges your undoubted talent. You are looking for design challenges where you can you can make a positive contribution. You will be keen to expand and consolidate you skills, working on projects that make a difference.

 

Ideally you will have:

• Well developed design, drawing and presentation skills
• A range of experience representing a practice at client and design team and other meetings
• A talent for communicating with client and end user groups
• Supervising medium and small scale contracts through all stages from inception to completion and beyond
• AutoCAD to a level where you can produce all required production information in a clear and unambiguous way
• Adobe Creative Suite software skills (Photoshop, In-design, Illustrator, etc) to a level where you can communicate yours ideas to the client, other designers and contractors
• A good knowledge of construction detailing.

 

 

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT ALI
On leaving college, you will be looking for a challenge in a supportive environment in a design led practice where your talent is developed and nurtured. You are assured and confident, ready to work on wide variety of stimulating projects. Your progression in the practice will be guided at each stage.

 

Ideally you will have:

• An ability to present your ideas using hand drawing and other media
• An interest in communicating with client and end user groups
• AutoCAD to a level where you can produce production information in a clear and unambiguous way
• Some of the software presentation skills in the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, In-design, Illustrator, etc) to a level where you can communicate yours ideas for presentation to the client
• An interest in plants and their environment
• A reasonable knowledge of construction detailing.

 

 

YEAR OUT
Each year we offer the opportunity for Year Out Students to join us, to further their skills and to tackle a variety of projects where they learn from colleagues and other design professionals in a supportive environment. You will be surprised how much you learn. Previous students have prospered on return to college and some have returned to us on graduating. We are looking for the best talent, the brightest people.

 

Ideally you will have:

• An aptitude for hand drawing
• A desire to communicate with clients and individuals
• Ideally AutoCAD to a level where you can produce some aspects of production information (training available to learn or consolidate)
• Some Adobe Creative Suite skills (Photoshop, In-design, Illustrator, etc) to a level where you can contribute to presentation information.

 

 

We are interested to hear from creative landscape architects who want to be part of a practice that values talent and hard work in the pursuit of excellence.

 

You will be part of a friendly team who enjoy and embrace the daily challenges and opportunities presented by our clients. We will value your contribution as an individual who can work closely with other colleagues, who can work with enterprise on projects that are interesting and stimulating for the perceptive and enquiring mind.

You will be able to work under your own initiative with clients and colleagues from other design disciplines. You will have an interest and curiosity in the wider aspects of landscape architecture, architecture, design, horticulture and planning.

 

Coe Design Landscape Architecture is an award-winning practice formed to create exemplary and notable landscape environments. Ours is a small but energetic practice who is expanding to meet demand. We offer the opportunity to advance your career by exposing you to a variety of projects which offer their own unique challenges and where you can make a difference. We will be able to offer even better office facilities when our move to larger refurbished premises is complete.

 

 

Coe Design Offer

• A highly competitive salary
• An annual bonus scheme
• Four weeks holiday plus additional days over the Christmas period
• Relocation expenses
• Landscape Institute membership fees paid
• Career progression and training.

 

 

How to Apply
In the first instance:

 

Send your current CV along with as many A4 0r A3 examples of your work as you can to:
Roger Wild
Beach Studio, The Cottage, Helen Lane, Weymouth, Dorset DT5 1JJ
Telephone: 01305 770 666
E mail: roger@coe-design.co.uk

 

Please leave a daytime and evening contact telephone number, e mail address and home address when replying.

 

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS  IS 12 NOON MONDAY 12 MAY 2008 

 

Please note: In order to conform with our equal opportunities policy we ask candidates selected for interview to complete a short application form to assist us in the interview process. All such information is protected under the Data Protection Act. We do not keep or distribute to others information gathered in this process.

 

We welcome applications from all sections of the community.