Project Landscape Architect
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Project Landscape Architect
Westwood Professional Services Inc.
Westwood Professional Services Inc. is seeking a Project Landscape Architect to Join our team. The position will work in a collaborative and integrated team of professionals that include landscape architects civil engineers planners surveyors environmental scientists and transportation engineers. The primary responsibilities include design/graphic leadership for specific landscape architectural scope of work on a multidiscipline project managed by another inhouse professional or landscape architectural scope of work managed by an outside firm government or developer. This person is the point of contact for the Client or inhouse Project Manager and responsible for all aspects of management and delivery of the applicable scope of work.
Duties and Responsibilities
Your Role with Us: This is a fulltime inoffice position where your work will directly contribute to our teams success. You will be responsible for a range of tasks including but not limited to site analysis design and construction plans. While this role does not have supervisory responsibilities it offers a pathway to significant professional development within a supportive and energetic team environment.
- Coordinates efforts of Graduate Landscape Designers (GLD) to assist in the production of work as needed.
- Often selfproduces graphics plans specifications for the scope of work.
- Assists the Landscape Architectural Service Leader in training GLDs with standards.
- Assures that assisting GLDs implement illustration design and CAD standards established for the group.
- Reviews planned submittals to Client or PM for completeness.
- Coordinates with Senior Landscape Architect for interim reviews and ultimate signing and sealing of documents.
- Builds increasing skills in Client management.
- Prepares scopes and fees for projects requested by the Project Manager or Client for ultimate review by the Landscape Architectural Service Leader.
- Shows a clear design methodology that results in creative sound solutions to a given problem.
- Shows clear mastery in preparing basic hardscape grading planting and irrigation graphics plans and illustrations using both digital and hand drawn formats.
- Leads project meetings with staff clients & regulatory agencies.
- Leads construction administration scopes of services for the scope of services proposed.
Required Skills
- This position is for a professional with Landscape Architecture experience
- Demonstrated proficiency of common software required to lead a small team of professional landscape designers.
- Strong freehand illustration and computer rendering skills.
- Track record of successful management of landscape architectural scopes of work within a larger project.
- A positive leadership and mentor ethic.
- Careful dedication and attention to organization and processes.
Required Experience
- A bachelors or masters degree from an accredited university with a degree in Landscape Architecture.
- 25 years of professional experience.
Preferred Experience
- Registered Landscape Architecture License preferred or ability to obtain within one 1 year of employment.
Compensation Range Minimum
Compensation Range Maximum
About Westwood Professional Services Inc. (Westwood)
At Westwood our purpose is to create a better world for people through our work. We transform the energy grid design resilient infrastructure and develop communities that will flourish today and for future generations. With over 50 years of experience and a legacy of innovation we stand at the forefront of our industry dedicated to understanding the unique needs of the markets we serve.
Our approach revolves around people. We are committed to building a culture that attracts retains and develops high performers. Our team values relationships innovation dedication initiative and growth. We believe fostering a collaborative One Team mentality yields superior outcomes in everything we do.
We customize our technical capabilities and geographic reach to meet our clients where they are and help them realize their vision. We are partners in our clients success driving to provide solutions that make a lasting difference. Safety sustainability and operational excellence are not just facets of our work; they are intrinsic to our identity guiding every decision we make.
We are deeply invested in the communities we serve. Through our projects and givingback initiatives we enrich the lives of those we serve engage others within our industry and create a lasting impact on communities around the world. To us success transcends the completion of projects; it is reflected in the lives we have positively impacted by our work.
Join us in creating a better world.
In 2023 Zweig Group ranked Westwood nationally at #12 and #30 respectively on its Hot Firms and Best Firms to Work for lists. Zweig also awarded Westwood two national 2nd place awards for Marketing Excellence. Westwood was recently recognized as #79 in the ENR Top 500 Firms in 2023. The firm consistently ranks on the industrys top 25 lists and receives recognition for its involvement in awardwinning projects nationwide.
Westwood provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. We believe that diverse backgrounds strengthen our business. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.
Employment Type
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