Field Representative for Landscape Construction

City of New York • Flushing, NY

9h • Onsite

About The Position

NYC Parks is an award-winning city agency that designs, builds and cares for public spaces for New Yorkers to connect, play and enjoy. NYC Parks manages more than 30,000 acres or 14% of the city’s land, encompassing more than 5,000 individual properties. Our diverse set of assets includes recreational facilities, nature centers, historic buildings and structures, golf courses, athletic fields, playgrounds, tennis courts, public pools, public restrooms, retaining walls and nearly 14 miles of beaches.

Requirements

• 1. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in landscape architecture from an accredited college or university, accredited by regional, national, professional or specialized agencies recognized as accrediting bodies by the U.S. Secretary of Education and by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and one year of full-time satisfactory experience in landscape architectural work; or
• 2. A valid New York State Registration as a Landscape Architect.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and expedites the development and/or improvement in all aspects of the Landscape Construction Units (LCU) portion of general construction projects, focusing on the preservation of existing trees, plant material, topsoil, arboriculture and horticulture during site development on Capital Projects. Advise and coordinate the activities required between landscape architects, architects, engineers and resident engineers together with other construction professionals as to the best practices for the preservation and protection of trees on NYC City Parkland before, during construction and post-occupancy of construction sites.
• Assist the LCU Director and LCU Supervisors in overseeing all matters relating to landscape construction, such as supervising landscape contractors and arborists including tree pruning and tree removals, material tagging, plant material layout, and topsoil sample collection and analysis. Monitor landscape operations for compliance with contract specifications and documents.
• Review horticultural and arboriculture construction submittals including topsoil reports.
• Prepare, transmit and file correspondence with reports related to site work on Capital Projects, maintain a project database of landscape construction operations. Provide regular updates with status of various projects and programs and ensure that projects are advanced timely.
• Work with other divisions within Parks, including Central Forestry, the Natural Resources Group and others as necessary.
• Work with construction teams including construction directors, senior resident engineers, lead resident engineers and resident engineers to formulate and optimize tree and site protection, including the placement of infrastructure such as paths, curbs, irrigation systems and underground utilities, grading issues, designation of staging areas and vehicular access routes, establishing tree protection zones and methods, soil bridging techniques and any other contract documents and specifications as appropriate.
• Work with the construction teams and landscape construction specialists to implement and enforce all Agency Standards and guidelines relating to site work around trees, in particular hand excavation requirements within the vicinity and underneath the driplines of existing trees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level