Landscape Manager

Job Description:

Located in الرياض, S01, SA, this Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth. Parsons is looking for a talented Landscape Manager to join our team. In this role, you will manage horticultural, softscape, forestry, planting, and landscape establishment works across a major development program, with specific responsibility for protecting and enhancing heritage assets and cultural landscapes, and integrating landscape information within the project’s BIM environment.

• Horticulture, Softscape and Landscape Establishment Manage horticultural, softscape, forestry, planting and landscape establishment activities across the project.
• Provide technical oversight on plant selection, tree species, nursery stock, soil preparation, planting methodology, irrigation requirements, fertilization, pruning, pest control and plant health.
• Review planting plans, landscape specifications, method statements, material submittals, inspection requests and contractor technical documentation.
• Monitor site works to ensure planting, tree works, soil works, irrigation interfaces and horticultural activities are delivered in line with approved designs, contract requirements and project quality standards.
• Inspect nursery stock, trees, palms, shrubs, ground covers, turf and other plant materials to confirm quality, suitability and compliance before installation.
• Support tree management activities, including tree protection, relocation, replacement, establishment and long‑term maintenance planning.

Conserve the topography and open spaces within heritage zones and associated cultural landscapes so that their character, identity and image are preserved for future generations. Safeguard architectural heritage interrelated with the cultural landscape by ensuring that landscape and open‑space works respect and foster the special character and heritage of the region. Ensure that heritage‑related landscape works comply with the Client sustainability program, Saudi heritage legislation and applicable UNESCO and ICOMOS conservation guidelines.

Enhance the relationship between people and heritage places by creating landscape connections that respect and support heritage buildings, cultural landscapes and their settings. In heritage zones, review and support the design of new landscape and open‑space developments so they are located, designed and scaled to avoid any detrimental impact on existing heritage, cultural landscapes or their visual setting. Complement the existing heritage and cultural landscape through the design and implementation of new landscape works.

Reinforce the historic urban fabric, settlement typologies and open‑space network through landscape design and development. Respect and plan for the inclusion of heritage sites in future phases of the overall development when coordinating landscape works. Support Client and the design consultants and contractors in preparing and implementing the project Design Brief for heritage‑related landscape works, ensuring that conservation principles and criteria are clearly defined and followed.

• Conservation is approached cautiously when changing existing buildings and related landscapes.
• Traditional setting, aesthetic and historic value are preserved.
• Modern techniques are only used when necessary and are compatible with traditional materials, with interventions designed to be reversible where practicable.
• Additions do not detract from significant parts of the heritage asset or unbalance the overall composition.
• Each intervention is based on a clear understanding of the causes of damage and decay.
• An incremental approach is followed, starting with a minimum level of intervention and allowing for subsequent supplementary measures if required.
• Interventions are easily removable without damaging original structures or landscapes, reducing the risk of uncontrolled disorder following intervention.
• Materials used in restoration and landscape works are as similar as possible to original materials from structural,…