Landscape Manager📣 إعلان

About the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Landscape Manager to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves overseeing horticultural, softscape, forestry, planting, and landscape establishment works across a significant development program. The position holds specific responsibility for protecting and enhancing heritage assets and cultural landscapes, alongside integrating landscape information within the project’s Building Information Modeling (BIM) environment.

Horticulture, Softscape, and Landscape Establishment

• Manage all horticultural, softscape, forestry, planting, and landscape establishment activities across the project site.
• Provide technical oversight on plant selection, tree species, nursery stock, soil preparation, planting methodology, irrigation requirements, fertilization, pruning, pest control, and overall 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 comply with approved designs, contract requirements, and project quality standards.
• Inspect nursery stock, trees, palms, shrubs, groundcovers, turf, and other plant materials to confirm quality, suitability, and compliance prior to installation.
• Support tree management activities, including tree protection, relocation, replacement, establishment, and long-term maintenance planning.

Heritage and Cultural Landscape Management

• Conserve the topography and open spaces within heritage zones and associated cultural landscapes to preserve their character, identity, and image.
• Safeguard architectural heritage interrelated with cultural landscapes by ensuring landscape and open-space works respect the region's special character and heritage.
• Ensure 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.
• Review and support the design of new landscape and open-space developments in heritage zones to ensure they avoid detrimental impact on existing heritage, cultural landscapes, or their visual setting.
• Complement existing heritage and cultural landscapes 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 overall development when coordinating landscape works.
• Support the Client, design consultants, and contractors in preparing and implementing the project Design Brief for heritage-related landscape works, ensuring conservation principles are defined and followed.
• Apply the project’s conservation principles to landscape interventions, ensuring preservation of traditional setting and aesthetic value, use of compatible modern techniques, non-detracting additions, and an incremental, reversible approach where practicable.

BIM Management and Digital Coordination (Landscape)

• Represent the landscape discipline within the project BIM process, ensuring landscape information is fully included in BIM models for coordination across geographical, architectural, civil, structural, infrastructure, utility services, and specialist constructions.
• Coordinate with the PMC BIM team, design consultants, and contractors to ensure landscape BIM models are developed, indexed, and maintained in accordance with approved codification, required Level of Development (LOD), and the BIM Execution Plan.
• Support the development and upkeep of landscape BIM models throughout the design process and facilitate their transfer for use during procurement and construction.
• Contribute to the Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) of modeled landscape information to ensure data integrity, correct codification, and alignment with project documentation.
• Participate in BIM coordination meetings, utilizing BIM tools to identify and help resolve clashes and interfaces involving landscape works.
• Support sustainability evaluation and other project analyses that rely on coordinated landscape BIM data.

Coordination, Reporting, and Compliance

• Coordinate with contractors, consultants, supervision teams, BIM coordinators, heritage specialists, client representatives, and relevant authorities to resolve horticultural, forestry, heritage-landscape, and BIM-related issues.
• Prepare technical reports, conservation and heritage-landscape inputs, progress updates, site observations, and recommendations for senior project leadership.
• Support the development and implementation of project procedures, guidelines, and method statements for landscape works in heritage-sensitive environments, including tree protection, heritage buffers, and visual-impact controls.
• Contribute landscape-related input to project risk assessments, constraints identification, and design/constructability reviews, particularly where works may affect heritage assets or cultural landscapes.
• Monitor contractor compliance with project quality, Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE), sustainability, and heritage requirements in relation to landscape works, and follow up on corrective and preventive actions as required.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this position should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in landscape management, particularly within large-scale development programs involving horticultural, heritage, and BIM integration aspects.