Location: Liverpool
Salary: Negotiable
Posting Date: 27 June 2025
What can you expect from the DLP Group?
The DLP Group is one of the UK’s leading employee-owned planning-led practices, providing tailored multidisciplinary advice to our clients across the development sector.
Cass Design Consulting is the design arm of the DLP Group, providing a multidisciplinary design service including: Masterplanning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture based from our Liverpool City Centre office.
Joining Cass brings with it the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside skilled professionals who will provide you with essential guidance and support to grow your career as a professional. You will also have the ability to work alongside colleagues in the wider DLP Group’s core business sectors which include:
- Planning
- Research & Analysis
- Masterplanning & Urban Design
- Architecture & Landscape Architecture
- Transport & Infrastructure
- Sustainability Engineering
The range of benefits that we offer to our employees includes private healthcare with BUPA, life insurance, company pension with a salary sacrifice option, cycle to work scheme, contributions towards professional subscriptions and enhanced maternity scheme.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a talented and qualified Architect with +5 Years relevant post qualification experience to deliver on a range of projects both locally within the Northwest and nationally through the wider DLP Group client network.
Our range of projects cover a variety of work in the residential and commercial sectors often our projects utilise our inhouse multidisciplinary team.
Supporting your professional development
We support our staff with a very active training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme which is intended to educate, inform and invite feedback.
Our CPD programme involves presentations from both external speakers and internal staff members, with all staff encouraged to present on a relevant topic to develop their presentation skills.
Every staff member is formally reviewed at least annually. During this process, achievements and future targets are reflected upon and discussed – always with the aim of learning and moving forward.
We provide support in relation to working towards chartership such as RIBA and you will be mentored throughout your career development with us.
Supporting your wellbeing
As an Employee Ownership Trust, our staff, their wellbeing and their personal and professional development is of paramount importance to us.
We are committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and wellbeing throughout the DLP Group and as an organisation we seek to:
- Actively contribute towards enhancing social value, including through our impacts on the environment, communities, local economies and innovation.
- Promote mental, physical and social wellbeing in the workplace.
- Actively promote, celebrate and enhance diversity across the organisation.
- Cultivate and promote an inclusive culture that maximises the talent, skills and diversity within our workforce
What do we expect from you?
As a Senior Architect you will work under the supervision of senior staff. Duties of the role include:
- Experience leading and managing projects within the residential and commercial sectors throughout all RIBA work stages
- Experience in preparation of quotations and tender submissions
- Strong communication skills
- Highly organised with an appetite for continual improvement
- Ability to delegate and oversea work production by fellow team members
- Ability to liaise with clients, contractors and other members of external & internal team
- Ability to independently produce detailed architectural drawings packages, specifications and construction documentation.
- Experience of chairing meetings, recording minutes and actions
- Experience acting as contract administrator, administering JCT minor work contract & RIBA domestic contracts
- Experience carrying out site inspection visits and ensure technical compliance and high quality and is achieved
- Proficient in usings AutoCad, Revit, Adobe Photoshop & InDesign essential (Sketchup desirable)
- Commercially aware with ability to work to budgets and timescales
- Full UK Drivers Licence
How can you apply?
If you are interested in this position at Cass then please send us your current CV and your availability to careers@dlpconsultants.co.uk and our HR team will be in touch.
