Gillespies
51 - 200 employees
Founded 1962
🏠 Real Estate
🤝 B2B
🏛️ Government
Real Estate • B2B • Government
Gillespies is a landscape architecture and urban design practice that creates masterplans, public realm projects, landscape planning and biophilic design solutions for cities, parks, and private developments worldwide. The firm works with public and private sector clients to restore and enrich natural environments, integrate resilient, nature-based solutions into urban settings, and deliver large-scale projects such as parks, waterfronts and mixed-use masterplans. Gillespies operates studios across the UK and internationally, emphasizing sustainable, people-centered design and environmental stewardship.
Graduate Designer – Freelancer
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🕒 March 18
🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote
⏳ Contract/Temporary
⚪️ Entry-level
✍️ Designer
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Gillespies
51 - 200 employees
Founded 1962
🏠 Real Estate
🤝 B2B
🏛️ Government
Real Estate • B2B • Government
Gillespies is a landscape architecture and urban design practice that creates masterplans, public realm projects, landscape planning and biophilic design solutions for cities, parks, and private developments worldwide. The firm works with public and private sector clients to restore and enrich natural environments, integrate resilient, nature-based solutions into urban settings, and deliver large-scale projects such as parks, waterfronts and mixed-use masterplans. Gillespies operates studios across the UK and internationally, emphasizing sustainable, people-centered design and environmental stewardship.
📋 Description
• Support project teams in a design-led, professional studio environment • Preparation of presentation materials across digital, 3D and graphic media • Development of drawings and packages for planning, technical, tender and construction stages • Conceptual sketching, illustrative design and visualisation support • Contribution to design research, precedent studies, materials exploration and technical references • Drafting, setting up and amending drawings in accordance with studio CAD/BIM standards • Project file management, drawing issue coordination, printing and documentation control • Participation in internal design discussions and project meetings • Fieldwork, site surveys and research tasks where required
🎯 Requirements
• Relevant degree in Landscape Architecture, Architecture, or related design discipline • Post-graduate qualification is desirable • Student member of the Landscape Institute (or equivalent) working toward professional accreditation is advantageous • Basic understanding of the UK planning system and policy context • Awareness of technical standards relevant to design and construction documentation • Exposure to professional studio processes and project delivery stages • Strong written, verbal and visual communication skills • Ability to develop hand sketches, digital drawings and presentation graphics • Creative problem-solving mindset
🏖️ Benefits
• Professional Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance coverage appropriate to freelance design work • Familiarity with industry-standard design tools used in landscape and architectural practice • Access to your own laptop and business licensed core design software • Essential Adobe Creative Cloud (with access to Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator as a minimum) • Microsoft 365 or Studio 2019 with MS Teams. • AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT • Autodesk Revit • Autodesk Navisworks & Manager • ArcGIS Desktop Pro • Autodesk Civil 3D • Sketch-up Pro • Google Earth Pro • NBS Chorus • Rhino
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