Landscape & Greenspace Delivery Manager

Lead the technical handover and initial aftercare of new landscape and environmental sites, ensuring completed assets are safe, compliant, documented and ready for long-term management. Coordinate inspections, defects, contractors and site acceptance across a growing portfolio of green spaces.

As Landscape & Green space Delivery Manager, you will lead the technical handover and initial aftercare of English Estates’ growing portfolio of environmental and countryside projects. You will coordinate inspections, defects, documentation, warranties, maintenance mobilisation and site acceptance, ensuring that completed assets can move confidently into long-term management. You will become involved before completion so that operational requirements are reflected in capital works, specifications and management arrangements.

Following handover, you will monitor establishment, contractor performance, budgets and defects until each site reaches a stable operational position.

The successful candidate will coordinate the following key areas of site delivery, handover and initial aftercare:

• Own and maintain a clear handover programme for each site, identifying responsibilities, dependencies, evidence requirements and target acceptance dates.
• Carry out pre-handover and completion inspections of hard and soft landscape works, identifying defects, incomplete items and operational risks.
• Coordinate defect schedules, remedial works and reinspection, maintaining momentum until agreed acceptance requirements are met.
• Confirm that access, boundaries, paths, drainage, structures, signage, planting, habitat works, utilities and other assets are safe and suitable for operational management.
• Coordinate formal site sign-off and provide a clear recommendation on whether the site is ready for handover, should be accepted subject to agreed actions, or is not yet acceptable.

• Check that approved plans, as-built drawings, management plans, asset schedules, risk assessments, warranties, certificates, consents and maintenance information are complete and accessible.
• Create and maintain a structured handover pack and asset record for each site, clearly recording outstanding obligations, warranty periods and future actions.
• Work with operational colleagues to translate technical and contractual information into practical site-management requirements.
• Coordinate the transfer of keys, access arrangements, emergency information, supplier details and site‑specific health and safety information.
• Support a controlled transition from developer or capital works responsibility into English Estates’ long‑term management.

• Prepare or review the initial aftercare plan, defining maintenance standards, inspection frequencies, seasonal priorities, establishment targets and reporting requirements.
• Procure, appoint and mobilise landscape and maintenance contractors for the initial aftercare period, ensuring scope, programme and responsibilities are clear.
• Monitor establishment of planting, habitats, grassland, trees and other landscape assets, commissioning replacements or remedial works where required.
• Manage aftercare budgets, contractor performance, variations and quality, with clear reporting against agreed outcomes and expenditure.
• Monitor defects and warranty obligations after handover, ensuring responsibility remains with the correct party and actions are closed within relevant timescales.
• Provide a structured review at the end of the initial aftercare period, confirming readiness for routine long‑term…