Landscape architect

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

• Category: Architectural Engineering

Description

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Job description

Landscape architect

Are you an ambitious landscape designer with at least 5 years of relevant work experience and would you like to work on high-end urban landscape projects at home and abroad that matter? Do you like to work at the intersection of landscape, urban development and architecture? Then we are looking for you!

Who are we?

KCAP is a leading international design agency that is characterized by projects at all scales, from architecture and urban planning to landscape design. We are a special agency with colleagues from more than 25 different countries. Together with more than 100 colleagues we improve future cities from our offices in Rotterdam, Zurich and Shanghai.

Landscape at KCAP

We work with a team of dedicated landscape designers on urban landscape projects. Our extensive experience with complex and highly urban environments enables us to consistently and coherently implement visionary ideas and concepts up to and including the realization of outdoor spaces. The KCAP landscape team excels in creating sustainable living environments, in which buildings and outdoor spaces function as a matter of course. We design landscapes for the future in which climate adaptation and nature inclusivity are a natural part of every design assignment. We pride ourselves on designing healthy, active and socially inclusive mixed communities that create value and improve the lives of the diverse people living in them. Our interventions are characterized by uncomplicated, appropriate interventions in the landscape, a pronounced materialization and careful detailing.

What you can expect from us:

You always work within specially composed multidisciplinary teams

Salary and secondary conditions according to the collective labor agreement: including a good pension provision and a training budget, plus a profit-sharing scheme

Opportunities for growth to a senior position with more responsibilities;

You work on high-end projects, ranging from Europe to Asia, from Antwerp and Hamburg to Taipei

You will become part of a dedicated team of professionals with more than 30 years of international experience

We have weekly lunch lectures given by colleagues and sometimes by external parties with whom we inform and inspire each other

You will receive a workplace that is customised and set up for you

You become part of the KCAP community: an open and collegial agency

Daily communal lunch in our canteen or in the sunny courtyard

A creative drink is organised every month by one of the departments

Our coffee is delicious

There is a canteen where you can play table football and during your break you can take a nice lunch walk along the Meuse from our office.

Requirements

What are you going to do?

As part of the landscape team, you will work with urban planners and architects at KCAP on area developments, transformations, waterfront projects, parks and campuses. In addition to creating master plans and area visions, an increasing amount of work consists of realizing landscape projects. You will work on international and national projects from Rotterdam. Examples of these are the public spaces of Stadshavens; a new part of the city in Groningen with 3300 homes. On the Waal in Nijmegen we are designing the public space of the Waalkwartier and the Honigcomplex and in Roermond we are working on an integral area development for 400 homes and a marina with a landscape park and flood barrier. In Bratislava, Slovakia we are working on a pocket park at a 260 meter and 184 meter high residential tower and in Zeebrugge in Belgium we are designing an urban coastal defense landscape in the Vissershaven. As a project leader you are responsible for both the content and the process of the landscape assignment of one or more projects, often within a larger multidisciplinary team. Together with a partner and/or associate partner, you oversee your projects. You communicate internally with the project team specifically composed for each project and externally with collaboration partners, clients and stakeholders. You monitor the progress of the project and adjust where necessary.

What we ask of you:

· Some experience in project management

· You have at least 5 years of relevant work experience;

· Fluent in Dutch and English (written and spoken);

· You have completed a degree in landscape design or landscape architecture (higher professional education or academic);

· Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Vectorworks and/or AutoCAD;

· You can independently implement and design projects, manage employees and maintain contact with clients.

Do you recognize yourself in this profile? We look forward to your application (including portfolio) and hope to meet you soon for a cup of coffee at our office in Rotterdam!

Company

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KCAP

KCAP is a leading international design firm specialised in architecture, urbanism and landscape architecture. KCAP was founded in 1989 by Kees Christiaanse, and now led by seven distinguished partners: Xavier Blaringhem, Jeroen Dirckx, Ruurd Gietema, Anouk Kuitenbrouwer, Irma van Oort, Ute Schneider and Edward Schuurmans. KCAP has offices in Rotterdam, Zürich, Paris and Shanghai, and works with a staff of more than 100 international professionals on a wide range of projects throughout Europe and Asia.