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. Lead High-Profile Transportation Projects: Shape the vision and design of transformative transportation corridors, highway corridors, complete streets, transit facilities, and multimodal networks throughout the Southeast. Influence Project Strategy: Partner with transportation planners, engineers, urban designers, and clients to develop innovative, sustainable, and context-sensitive design solutions. Regional Impact: Help 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
Education Level
Associate degree
