Design Manager (Landscape)

Role overview

Design management and coordination

• Leads landscape design from concept through detailed design and construction support.
• Coordinates landscape design with architectural, civil, utilities, infrastructure, and MEP disciplines.
• Reviews consultant submissions for scope, quality, and regulatory compliance, and ensures coordinated, buildable designs.
• Manages design reviews, clash detection, and the landscape design programme against project timelines.

Technical and sustainability oversight

• Provides input on planting strategies, irrigation, grading, drainage, and hardscape.
• Reviews designs for functionality, sustainability, and aesthetic quality, including selection of native, climate-appropriate, low-maintenance plant species.
• Assesses environmental impact, soil conditions, hydrology, and long-term maintainability.
• Verifies water efficiency and green infrastructure measures.

Project and construction support

• Liaises with clients, authorities, and stakeholders on design approvals and compliance; participates in technical meetings to resolve issues.
• Reports on design progress and risks, assesses design-change impacts on cost, schedule, and quality, and supports value engineering.
• Identifies design risks and provides construction support through RFI responses, shop-drawing reviews, implementation oversight, and site-progress monitoring.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture or a related field.
• Minimum 12–15+ years of experience, including significant exposure to design management and landscape projects.
• Experience in PMC, consultancy, or large-scale infrastructure or urban development projects.

Knowledge and capabilities

• Strong knowledge of landscape and urban design, irrigation, grading, drainage, sustainability, and multidisciplinary design coordination.
• Proficiency in design and coordination tools such as AutoCAD, BIM, and GIS.
• Understanding of international standards, codes, and authority requirements.
• Strong leadership, team management, coordination, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Able to balance design quality, cost, and constructability.

Rewards and benefits

• Tax-free salary, life insurance, medical insurance for the employee and dependents, annual leave, and a company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus, annual flight contribution, and relocation assistance.
• Transportation and housing allowances may be available for remote work locations.
• Wellbeing programme provides access to finance, legal, family care, health, fitness, and nutrition specialists.
• Company describes flexible and hybrid work solutions and remote work opportunities outside the country.

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