Senior Landscape Architect

Pape-Dawson Engineers•Bonita Springs, FL

About The Position

GradyMinor, a Pape-Dawson company, is seeking a licensed Landscape Architect to join our landscape architecture and land planning studio based in our Bonita Springs office. The ideal candidate is creative, collaborative, and has a passion for creating places that are authentic, innovative, and functional. This position will have an opportunity to work on a broad range of projects including master-planned communities, parks, green infrastructure, retail, detailed urban spaces, mixed use spaces, and urban streetscape redevelopment. The licensed Landscape Architect will have access to professionals of various backgrounds and expertise across our multi-disciplinary firm. Working in tandem with our planners, surveyors, and engineers allows for seamless design process, learning opportunities, and a better product for both our clients and the users of the spaces we create. This role will have a firm understanding of preparing graphics, design, drawing, and analyze projects in modeling programming software. The Landscape Architect will collaborate in-house with other landscape architects, civil engineers, and land surveyors to assist our clients in developing commercial, residential, mixed-use projects, and park and recreation projects.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture
8+ years of experience in a planning and design firm
Proficiency in SketchUp, Lumion, Civil 3D, and Adobe Suite
Experience creating hand graphics
Interpersonal communication skills
Strong attention to detail
RLA or ability to achieve by reciprocity
Completion of LARE is encouraged

Nice To Haves

Project Management experience a plus

Responsibilities

Develop design concepts using hand graphics and/or computer graphic programs, including SketchUp, Lumion, AutoCAD, and Adobe Suite
Communicate effectively with all levels of management in both written and verbal form
Establish and maintain project structure, budget, and schedule
Solve design problems using experience, judgment, and education
Participate in municipal approval process, including pre-application meetings, responding to staff comments, planning commission meetings, and city council meetings
Participate in construction bid process including pre-bid conferences, interpretations, post-bid evaluations, and contract preparation
Engage in construction administration, field observations, shop drawings, change orders, interpretations, conflict resolution, and close-down processing
Train and mentor more junior staff
Additional related duties as needed

Benefits

Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
Long-term and short-term disability coverage
Generous PTO and paid holidays
401(k) safe harbor contribution plus 10% employer matching
Premium time paid out to eligible salaried employees when over 40 hours are worked in a week
Annual salary review and bonus
Tuition and gym reimbursements
Parental leave
Flexible work environment
Focus on work-life balance