Landscape Designer/Architect - ( 230002F0 )

Description

If you are a talented designer and great thinker with a landscape architecture degree and between 3 to6 years of experience, keep reading. Stantec is growing its urban design and landscape architecture practice in Milwaukee and across the Midwest. As a company, we have a strong regional presence in Wisconsin offering landscape architecture, architecture, civil engineering, and environmental services. Working in collaboration with our partners, our studio provides planning, landscape architecture and urban design services of the highest caliber. We have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects from urban parks, plazas and streetscapes to institutional campuses, master-planned communities to river corridors and forest preserves. Our office is on East Michigan Street in downtown Milwaukee, just outside of the Historic Third Ward.

Stantec is a global consulting firm with opportunities to be involved in far-reaching planning and design projects as well as collaborate with Stantec’s leading experts in a variety of fields and disciplines. Some of these experts include those focused on autonomous vehicles, micro-mobility, Smart Cities, resilience, green infrastructure and habitat restoration. We’re part of the Midwest Urban Places team of professionals in Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Minneapolis that regularly works with many of Stantec’s business lines including Buildings, Community Development, Environmental Services, Transportation and Water.

The reach of Stantec’s platform is amazing and what we are building in Milwaukee is about connecting people with great places. We are driven to make community design impacts within geographic reach of Milwaukee in addition to regularly engaging with cool projects throughout the country. Through high-quality planning and design, we empower communities and help realize their potential. Our landscape architects create inspired spaces that reflect context and user needs along with our commitment to sustainability. We take a collaborative approach to design and believe that the best solutions are the product of diverse perspectives.

Your Opportunity

We are seeking a positive, highly motivated, and innovative professional who is passionate about urban design, master planning, and landscape architecture. Top candidates will excel at design thinking, excellent graphic communication skills, articulate written and verbal communication, a rigor to produce the best design solutions and work products possible as well as an interest in collaboration with other team members.

You will have the opportunity to plan and design public and private projects across a range of scales and uses, including civic spaces, streetscapes, parks, residential, commercial, and institutional developments, and more. You will build new relationships with some of our more than 250 landscape architects firmwide, be mentored and in turn mentor new staff as we continue to grow.

Key Responsibilities

• Work under the direction of licensed Landscape Architects to assist in the development of projects in the Midwest and across the U.S. by collaborating with Stantec’s Buildings, Community Development, Urban Places, Water, Environmental Services, and other project teams.

• Collaborate with planners, architects, engineers, ecologists, real estate market analysts, developers, contractors, and clients to enhance our group’s production on all things related to landscape architecture and implement effective communication and coordination on projects among other project participants.

• Collaborate with other team members while working on projects and managing specific design and project tasks as appropriate.

• Understand and execute the site inventory and analysis process. Investigate design variables, owner/client requirements, budget constraints, regulatory constraints, site constraints, building operation, circulation, site grading, stormwater management, sustainability, soils, planting plans, and the preparation of construction documents.

• Prepare schematic, conceptual, design development and construction documents for site plans and support graphics using hand drawings and other computer programs.

• Prepare and lay out documents, reports and presentations.

• Prepare site plans and understand principles of grading and drainage, planting design detail design and documentation.

• Support marketing and business development efforts.

• Participate in meetings and presentations.

• Perform other duties as needed.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• We are seeking candidates with 3-6 years of prior landscape architecture experience (including internship experience) working within professional design firms to fill this position in Milwaukee. The successful candidate will have the following skills:

• Exceptional conceptual design and graphic skills using hand and computer drawing and rendering techniques.

• Exceptional technical design skills in site and planning projects across a range of project scales from less than one acre to hundreds of acres in size. Skills required include technical design layout, grading, and detailing of design projects of all sizes.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint), AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, etc.), and SketchUp are required.

• Experience with Enscape, Lumion, TwinMotion, Rhino, Grasshopper or other 3-D visualization programs is preferred.

• Experience in AutoCAD Civil 3D (including alignments and grading surfaces), AutoTURN, LandFX, and other construction document production-oriented software programs is preferred.

• Strong quantitative aptitude and attention to technical detail are required. Prior experience in site construction administration, either observation or hands-on, is beneficial but not required.

Education Experience

• Successful candidates must have an undergraduate and/or graduate degree from an accredited landscape architecture program.

• Dual degree candidates (Architecture, Urban Design or Urban Planning) combined with Landscape Architecture are also encouraged to apply. Candidates without landscape architect training will not be considered.

• Current licensure as a Landscape Architect is beneficial but is not required. Eventual licensure will be required for continued advancement within the team.

• Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal

• A desire and ability to be a multi-discipline team member (planning, urban design, landscape architecture, engineering, and architecture)

You will work in a fun and creative office setting, much of the time with computers and/or drawing by hand. Some travel will be required for such tasks as delivering and presenting plans or documents to reviewing agencies or clients; attending client or public meetings; attending conferences to make presentations or participate in forums; and participating in internal meetings. You may occasionally visit study areas, construction sites, and/or outside elements. During the pandemic, some of your time may be working at home and this will be at the discretion of your supervisor pending work requirements.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that may be required in this job; other duties, responsibilities, and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on the talents of each other, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location : United States-Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Organization : BC-1938 CommDev-US North Central

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : No

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Nov 10, 2023, 3:40:13 PM

Req ID: 230002F0

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans