Principal Landscape Architect

Location: Galway, Ireland

The Role:

Entrust is a well established planning and environmental consultancy since 2008, specialising in infrastructure, primarily renewable energy and wireless telecommunications. We operate across Ireland and the UK from our offices in Galway and Liverpool. Our office in Galway has a requirement for a F/T Principal Landscape Architect working within the office. This is an excellent career opportunity for an ambitious suitable candidate as we are a fast-growing consultancy, which offers a unique opportunity to have a very wide-ranging role within the company as well as a genuine opportunity to grow your career rapidly within the company in the coming years.

What’s on Offer:

- Profit Share: A unique opportunity to share in the profitability of the landscape division of the company.
- Competitive Pay: A market-based salary package designed to reward your expertise and leadership.
- Generous Benefits: A comprehensive benefits package tailored to suit your experience and professional needs.
- Prestige & Leadership: Lead our landscape division, playing a pivotal role in the growth of our company.
- Relocation Package: Removal and initial accommodation costs.

Key Responsibilities:

- Setting up and leading a new landscape division, to provide services on strategic infrastructure and renewable energy projects, managing project programmes and budgets
- Producing LVIA’s and Landscaping Layout Plans & Masterplans
- Site visits and photography
- Proactively bringing in new business and growing a new landscape department including building a team
- Managing work enquiries, preparing bids and building client relationships
- Collaborating with our multi-disciplinary teams and undertaking stakeholder engagement
- Planning, co-ordinating and undertaking field surveys, analysing and interpreting other disciplines survey results using approaches such as biodiversity measures
- Designing and co-ordinating landscaping schemes

Qualifications and Experience:

The ideal candidate will:

- Excellent report writing and organisational experience
- Experience conducting LVIA’s for a range of project scales
- Trained in, or an awareness of, AutoCAD, GIS and desktop publishing software
- Membership of the Chartered Institute of the Landscape Institute (CMLI)
- Ideally 5 years relevant post qualification experience
- A degree in landscape architecture
- Demonstrable excellent landscape knowledge
- Strong commercial skills to bring in new business
- Be able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and under your own initiative to achieve targets Willingness to travel for project work
- A full, clean Ireland/UK/EU driving licence.

Personal Qualities

- Must be dynamic
- Must be an excellent communicator
- Must be able to deal confidently with clients, staff reports and senior managers
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- High level of personal integrity and commitment to upholding company values
- Flexible approach with ability to multi-task and prioritise
- Positive outlook and approachable manner
- Highly motivated to achieve personal and organisational goals

Comfortable working in a team or individually as required

Let’s create a greener, more sustainable future together

Unit 1, First Floor, Oranmore Business Park,Oranmore, County Galway, H91 P7X8 contact@entrust-services.com +353 (0) 91 342 511

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