Senior Landscape Architect
About The Position
Join AECOM's Transportation Business Line as a Landscape Architect IV. Make a significant impact on transportation projects across the Southeast with your talent and experience. AECOM is seeking a creative professional to join our team and help shape innovative designs for streetscapes, highway beautification, and multimodal pathways. This role involves leading high-profile transportation projects, shaping the vision and design of transformative transportation corridors, highway corridors, complete streets, transit facilities, and multimodal networks throughout the Southeast. You will influence project strategy by partnering with transportation planners, engineers, urban designers, and clients to develop innovative, sustainable, and context-sensitive design solutions. The position aims to create resilient, aesthetically impactful transportation environments that improve mobility, safety, and quality of life for communities.
Requirements
- BA/BS in Landscape Architecture or related field
- 6 years of Landscape Architecture experience or related field or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
Nice To Haves
- Licensed Landscape Architect or actively pursuing licensure
- Familiarity with native and climate-appropriate plant communities in the US Southeast region
- Experience with MicroStation and DOT-related construction documentation
- Experience with Design-Build project delivery
- Experience with RFP/RFQ processes for public agencies, institutions, organizations, and private entities
- Proficiency in AutoCAD, 3D modeling, and ArcGIS
Responsibilities
- Lead landscape architecture tasks for complex transportation projects from planning through construction administration.
- Serve as a design lead, providing creative direction and quality oversight for project deliverables.
- Collaborate directly with clients, transportation agencies, and stakeholders to develop project goals and design solutions.
- Mentor and guide junior landscape architects, designers, and technical staff.
- Prepare and review planting plans, hardscape layouts, visual simulations, specifications, cost estimates, and technical reports.
- Support project pursuits, proposals, and presentations to transportation agencies and municipal clients.
- Ensure compliance with applicable DOT standards, environmental regulations, and project requirements.
- Contribute to business development efforts and help strengthen AECOM's transportation landscape architecture practice.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life
- AD&D
- disability benefits
- paid time off
- leaves of absences
- voluntary benefits
- perks
- flexible work options
- well-being resources
- employee assistance program
- business travel insurance
- service recognition awards
- retirement savings plan
- employee stock purchase plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
