Landscape Architect

EXP; Burnaby; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join EXP as a Landscape Architect where you lead client projects, deliver complex designs, and mentor staff. This role demands exceptional design knowledge and strong communication skills as you engage directly with clients to ensure project excellence. With a collaborative office environment in Burnaby, your experience will contribute to innovative solutions in landscape architecture.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of professional design experience required.
• Exceptional design and technical knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare high-quality design work.

Responsibilities

• Lead client projects and participate in various landscape architectural designs.
• Provide clear recommendations to clients based on technical design expertise.
• Mentor and train staff while maintaining client relationships.

Skills

Design experience

Client relationship skills

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Time management

Education

AALA or equivalent registration

BCSLA registration

Tools

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Photoshop

InDesign

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Be our next Landscape Architect!

Your work environment at EXP

In this role, you will be a part of the Landscape Architecture team, based in the Burnaby, Calgary, Edmonton office.

What a day at EXP has in store for you

• Responsible for leading client projects and for discipline specific projects for internal clients
• Participate on a variety of project types including complex landscape architectural designs
• Serve as a technical design expert in the office, mentor and train staff
• Site analysis and design concept development including digital and hand-illustrated deliverables suitable to communicate design intent to clients and staff
• Project scoping, scheduling and concept design through construction phase project management to execute work
• Analysis, design reports and master plan preparations and narratives
• Interface directly with clients and able to provide clear, well-articulated and solution-based recommendations
• Participate in the preparation of fee proposals, qualification packages and terms of reference for potential projects
• Maintain and strengthen client relationships and play a key role in client management and satisfaction
• Interact with clients and represent our practice on projects, project pursuits, strategic initiatives, at promotional events and during business development in collaboration with the practice leader and EXP leadership

What your experience looks like

• AALA or equivalent registration and BCSLA registration is strongly preferred.
• 5-10 years of professional design experience
• Exceptional design and technical knowledge
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills
• Strong client relationship skills
• Previous experience working with a variety of clients including municipalities and developers
• Public and stakeholder engagement
• Ability to work on multiple projects with aggressive delivery schedules
• Demonstrated ability to prepare high-quality design work and design presentations using hand graphics and relevant computer software (AutoCAD, SketchUp, Photoshop, InDesign, Microsoft Office Suite)
• Demonstrated experience and design excellence in several core areas of the practice including open space, parks and plazas, streetscapes, recreation and open space master planning and design, trails, greenways and transportation, land development and urban design, naturalized and resilient landscapes, and cultural landscapes
• Strong communication, negotiation, interpersonal and time management skills
• Experience managing staff, consultants, project teams, client relationships and complex projects is considered an asset
• LEED Accreditation is considered an asset
• Revit / BIM experience is considered an asset
• Land F/X experience is considered an asset

About the company

With a mission to understand, innovate, partner and deliver, EXP provides engineering, architecture, design and consulting services to the world’s built and natural environments.

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