Landscape Architect

Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc.•Los Angeles, CA

62d•$101,000 - $141,400•Hybrid

About The Position

We are Herrera Envision yourself at a growing, employee-owned company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best performance while making a difference in the world. We are Herrera, a science, planning, and design consulting firm dedicated to working with clients to develop holistic solutions that provide social and environmental benefit. We protect the environment every day by providing a diverse range of consulting services to cities, counties, state and federal agencies, and private clients throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and western Canada. For over 40 years, Herrera has cultivated a collaborative, caring culture that empowers our employee-owners to achieve excellence while ensuring we have fun along the way. By providing our employee-owners with the autonomy to pursue their professional interests and through encouraging them to grow, we benefit from high employee-owner retention that contributes to our longstanding partnerships with clients. Our Values Treat everyone with respect and dignity, always. Insist on integrity, objectivity, and social and environmental ethics in our work. Act as stewards of the environment upon which we depend. Research and outreach, learn and teach. Employee owners, employee leaders. Your opportunity: Are you interested in using your service and leadership skills to help shape the future of landscape architecture? Are you driven and inspired by multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved through good, sustainable design? Then this role is for you. Herrera is growing in Southern California and is looking for a Senior Landscape Architect in the Los Angeles area who can lead a vast array of projects. Key project types include school yard greening, park planning and design, sustainable urban development, green stormwater infrastructure, and ecological restoration design while helping to promote and advance our landscape architecture practice. Herrera’s approach to landscape architecture maximizes ecological benefits, including consideration of life-cycle maintenance, planning for climate-adaptive futures, and creating meaningful places. We are committed to pursuing social and environmental equity through both design process and built project outcomes. If you are passionate about working collaboratively with other professional disciplines, have a hunger to push sustainability and equity in design, and have deep knowledge of California’s diverse ecosystems with an emphasis on the Los Angeles basin, please apply for this position. We are looking for someone who has a strong desire to continually learn, loves to innovate and creatively problem solve, works well within a team and independently, desires to work and grow with other disciplines, and will add to our collaborative group dynamic. The landscape architecture group at Herrera has a range of technical skills and we are looking for someone to help our group thrive and expand these skills. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience with a strong portfolio of built projects that demonstrates successful project management and implementation.

Requirements

8+ years of landscape architecture experience
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in landscape architecture from an accredited program
Professional licensure as a Landscape Architect in the State of California, or licensed in another state and able to obtain reciprocity within six (6) months
A strong portfolio of constructed work and senior level experience with project execution

Nice To Haves

Experience producing contract documents including plans, specifications, and cost estimates, and ability to lead and manage teams throughout design production
Experience with and/or interest in school yard greening, public works, parks and trails, and infrastructure projects
Excellent writing, organizational, critical thinking, and communication skills
Experience writing scopes of work, project budgeting, and responding to Requests for Qualifications or Proposals (RFQ or RFP)
Experience with community engagement and community-led design processes
Experience working with Community-based Organizations (CBOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to develop projects and seek and support grant funding opportunities design
Ability to decipher and implement various building codes and permitting requirements.
Technical experience with site planning, conceptual design, design development, construction documents, and construction administration/observation
A passion for sustainable and environmentally sensitive design
A detailed design focus, in-depth analytical thinking, and strong technical skills
Proficiency in AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Bluebeam, and MS Office
Spanish language proficiency is desirable but not required

Responsibilities

Actively leading landscape architectural projects that vary in type, size, and scale with a high level of proficiency and expertise.
Negotiating project scope and fees, leading project production and QA/QC, and managing project budget.
Providing project management and team leadership through all phases of projects.
Developing relationships with new clients and managing relationships with existing clients.

Benefits

This position is salaried and exempt from overtime; the salary range is $101,000 - $141,400 annually
Flexible hybrid work culture - this position is remote from the Los Angeles area
Medical/prescription drug/dental/vision insurance for employees and dependents; employees covered at no cost on base plan with buy-up options available; company contribution for dependents
Section 125 flexible benefits plans – healthcare and dependent care
Company-paid life insurance for employees; option to purchase additional life insurance for employees and dependents at employees’ expense
Company-paid long term disability insurance for employees; option to purchase short-term disability insurance at employees’ expense
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - we are 100% employee owned!
401(k) retirement plan
Paid vacation, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 15 days per year for a 40 hour/week employee and prorated for employees working 24-39 hours/week
Paid sick leave, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 10 days per year for a 40-hour/week employee and prorated for employees working 24-39 hours per week
Flexible paid holidays (10)
Paid volunteer time (8 hours annually)
Company-paid annual membership dues for one professional organization
Professional development / continuing education allowance
Discretionary annual bonus
Transit benefit
This position is remote from the Los Angeles area. Reliable internet service is required for remote work, with acceptable types including cable, DSL, or fiber and minimum speeds of 30Mbps download and 5Mbps upload.