Senior Landscape Architect

2 Month Contract – July 2026 – Sept 2026

We’re looking for a Freelance Senior Landscape Architect to join our team on a temporary contract. In this role, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating landscape design activities across projects, ensuring high-quality design delivery from concept development through technical design, authority approvals, and construction support.

You will play a key role in maintaining the integrity of the landscape design vision while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, consultants, contractors, and clients to deliver innovative, practical, and buildable landscape solutions that align with Arena’s design and operational standards.

• Lead and coordinate landscape design delivery from project brief through concept, developed, and technical design stages.
• Act as the primary point of contact for all landscape design matters with clients, consultants, contractors, and internal project teams.
• Manage landscape design coordination across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring seamless integration with architecture, engineering, and project delivery requirements.
• Review and coordinate consultant outputs, resolve design issues, and maintain design quality throughout the project lifecycle.
• Prepare and oversee high-quality presentations, reports, renderings, and client approval submissions.
• Conduct site visits, surveys, inspections, and provide construction-phase support to ensure design intent is successfully implemented.
• Review contractor shop drawings, material submittals, and RFIs.
• Ensure compliance with local authority requirements, planning regulations, environmental standards, and sustainability principles.
• Support project management activities including scheduling, budgeting, quality control, and stakeholder communication.

• Degree in Landscape Architecture or a related discipline.
• Proven experience delivering landscape projects from concept through construction.
• Strong experience managing and coordinating landscape design within multidisciplinary project environments.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD, Sketch Up, Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Microsoft Office. Civil 3D experience is advantageous.
• Strong knowledge of planting design, hardscape materials, irrigation systems, grading, and sustainable landscape practices.
• Experience in Design & Build projects.
• BIM/Revit experience is an advantage.
• Excellent communication, presentation, coordination, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to perform effectively in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.
• KSA experience and familiarity with local authority approval processes are highly desirable.