Landscape Manager - Heritage and Horticulture

Landscape Manager
- Heritage and Horticulture Job Snapshot Role:
Landscape Manager
- Heritage and Horticulture

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Architecture and Planning Function:
Design

Experience:

Minimum 18 years of relevant horticulture, forestry, softscape, landscape establishment, or maintenance experience Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview Landscape Manager
- Heritage and Horticulture in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is an Architecture and Planning opportunity focused on horticulture, softscape, forestry, cultural landscape conservation, BIM coordination, and landscape establishment across a major development program. Parsons is hiring an experienced landscape professional to manage planting, tree health, soil preparation, irrigation interfaces, heritage-sensitive landscape interventions, digital model coordination, and long-term establishment of high-quality public realm and cultural landscape assets.

Country:
Saudi Arabia City:
Riyadh Industry: Architecture and Planning Function:
Design Salary:  Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality:
Any Job Type: Full-time

The Landscape Manager will provide senior technical leadership across horticulture, forestry, softscape, heritage conservation, and landscape digital coordination. The role will ensure that new planting and public realm improvements are established successfully while protecting historic topography, open spaces, architectural heritage, and cultural landscapes. By integrating horticultural science, conservation principles, BIM information, quality control, and construction supervision, the position will help create resilient landscapes that complement Riyadh 's heritage character while meeting modern sustainability and operational requirements.

• Manage horticultural, softscape, forestry, planting, and landscape establishment activities across assigned project areas.
• Provide technical oversight of plant selection, species suitability, nursery stock, soil preparation, planting methodology, irrigation requirements, fertilization, pruning, pest management, and long-term plant health.
• Review planting plans, landscape drawings, technical specifications, Method Statements, Material Submittals, Inspection Requests, and contractor documentation.
• Monitor planting, tree works, soil improvement, irrigation interfaces, and landscape establishment activities against approved designs and contract requirements.
• Inspect trees, palms, shrubs, ground covers, turf, and other plant material before installation.
• Verify nursery stock quality, root condition, size, species, maturity, health, and suitability for project conditions.
• Support tree surveys, tree protection, relocation, replacement, establishment, and long-term maintenance planning.
• Evaluate plant performance during establishment periods and recommend corrective horticultural measures where required.
• Promote species selection appropriate to Riyadh 's arid climate and demanding environmental conditions.
• Encourage water-efficient planting strategies and sustainable horticultural practices.
• Protect topography and open-space character within heritage zones.
• Ensure landscape interventions respect the setting, identity, visual character, and cultural significance of historic areas.
• Coordinate landscape works affecting architectural heritage and ensure new interventions complement existing cultural assets.
• Review heritage-sensitive landscape designs to prevent inappropriate scale, form, materials, or planting from diminishing heritage values.
• Support conservation of historic settlement patterns, cultural landscapes, open-space networks, and visual relationships.
• Ensure future landscape phases account for identified heritage sites and protected cultural features.
• Work with the Client, consultants, contractors, and heritage specialists to establish appropriate design criteria for conservation-sensitive landscape works.
• Apply cautious and proportionate conservation principles when changes affect existing heritage landscapes.
• Preserve traditional settings, aesthetic significance, historic value, authenticity, and landscape integrity.
• Promote reversible interventions where practicable and avoid unnecessary alteration of original heritage fabric.
• Challenge landscape proposals that could detract from significant heritage elements or disrupt established compositions.
• Require interventions to be informed by a clear understanding of deterioration, environmental stress, or previous damage.
• Apply an incremental approach to conservation, beginning with the minimum intervention needed to achieve the intended result.
• Encourage use of restoration materials compatible with historic materials in structural, functional, and aesthetic terms.
• Support compliance with applicable Saudi heritage legislation and project sustainability requirements.
• Apply relevant UNESCO and ICOMOS conservation principles where required by the project.
• Represent the…