Managing Technical Consultant, Landscape Architecture

Environmental Resources Management (ERM); Rolling Meadows (IL); On-site; USD 79,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Parental leave

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Job summary

Environmental Resources Management (ERM) seeks an experienced Managing Consultant, Landscape Architecture to lead landscape design within multidisciplinary teams for high-visibility energy and infrastructure projects across North America.

You will influence siting and permitting decisions, coordinate with GIS and visual simulation specialists, and ensure technical integrity of deliverables while mentoring staff and managing client relationships.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Landscape Architecture or related field; 5–10 years of landscape architecture experience.
• Proficiency with AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, and related software.
• Licensure as a Registered Landscape Architect preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead environmental impact assessments, land planning, facility siting, and permitting for large-scale energy and infrastructure projects.
• Produce and review VIAs and related technical deliverables.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to ensure regulatory compliance and technical accuracy.
• Mentor technical staff and manage budgets, timelines, and client relationships.
• Conduct site visits and maintain direct client communication to support project delivery.

Skills

Landscape architecture

Project management

Client relations

Team coordination

Mentoring

Education

BA/BS in Landscape Architecture

MA/MS in related discipline

Tools

AutoCAD

Adobe Creative Suite

GIS software

Job description

Are you an experienced landscape architect ready to contribute to complex, high‑visibility infrastructure projects that shape the future of North America’s energy, employment, and public landscapes? At ERM, you’ll lead landscape design as part of multidisciplinary teams, influence strategic siting and permitting decisions, and ensure the technical integrity of work that drives meaningful environmental outcomes.

Why This Role Matters

As new energy infrastructure, high-tech manufacturing and employment, and brownfield redevelopment projects emerge to meet growing demand for reliability and resilience, thoughtful integration of infrastructure projects into the existing landscape are essential. ERM is seeking a Managing Consultant, Landscape Architecture to help clients navigate complex siting environments, regulatory pathways, and stakeholder expectations. Your expertise will strengthen ERM’s ability to deliver trusted assessments that enable responsible development across North America.

What Your Impact Is

• Create planting designs, site designs, and detail sheets, including landscape plans, lighting plans, and landscape management plans that comply with local ordinances and community expectations.
• Provide innovative, nature-based approaches to rehabilitation and reuse of brownfield sites.
• Collaborate with visual simulation experts to produce legally defensible simulations of proposed projects that incorporate accurate depictions of recommended vegetation.
• Contribute to Visual Impact Assessments (VIAs) and technical reports.
• Work with and coordinate multidisciplinary teams—including GIS, visual simulation specialists, and technical experts—to deliver clear, defensible analyses.
• Serve as a strategic partner to clients, helping them solve problems, anticipate challenges, and advance their projects with confidence.

What You’ll Bring

• Valid licensure as a Registered Landscape Architect.
• A digital portfolio available for review via a website, linked drive, etc.
• BA/BS in Landscape Architecture or related field, plus5–10years of landscape architecture experience.
• Proficiency with AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, and related software.
• Proven success managing project scopes, schedules, budgets, and client relationships.
• Driver's License Required: This position requires a valid driver's license and/or the ability to operate a company vehicle due to the nature of job duties, which may include occasional travel to various client locations across a large geographical area.
• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
• PreferredMA/MS in a relevant discipline.
• Strong horticulture knowledge.
• Familiarity with GIS/Global Mapper, Rhino, 3DS Max or 3D rendering software.
• Supplementary experience in planning, graphic design, and/or photography.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to environmental impact assessments, land planning, facility siting, and permitting for large‑scale energy and infrastructure projects.
• Produce, manage, and review Visual Impact Assessments (VIAs) and related technical deliverables.
• Coordinate and integrate work from multidisciplinary teams to ensure technical accuracy and regulatory compliance.
• Serve as a task manager or project manager, overseeing budgets, timelines, and quality standards.
• Mentor technical staff and foster a collaborative, high‑performing project environment.
• Conduct site visits and maintain direct client communication to support successful project delivery.

For the Managing Consultant, Landscape Architecture position, the anticipated annual base pay is $79,395–$101,693 (USD). Actual pay will depend on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs. In some cases, pay may fall outside this range. This role may be eligible for bonus pay (casual and fixed term/flex force employees are not bonus eligible).

Benefits

• Paid time off, parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, AD&D insurance, 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP, and other applicable benefits to eligible employees.

Note: Bonuses, commissions, and other forms of additional compensation are not guaranteed and subject to the sole discretion of ERM and its policies and procedures.

Applications accepted through (September 30, 2026). The posting may be extended if the position remains unfilled.

Who We Are

As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

At ERM, we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients.

Our diverse team of world‑class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.

At ERM, sustainability is our business. We are the world’s largest advisory firm focused solely on sustainability, offering unparalleled expertise across business and finance. ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, through our unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities. Our diverse global team of experts works with the world’s leading organizations to help them set clear sustainability targets, measure progress and operationalize strategy through deep implementation and business transformation.

With more than 50 years of experience, our ability to integrate sustainability solutions and our depth and breadth of technical knowledge are why organizations choose to partner with us as their trusted advisor. Every one of us firmly believes in the potential to create value for our clients through an integrated approach to sustainability (because we have personally seen it and professionally achieved it).

Our team members are passionate about client service. We work closely with our clients to help them operationalize their sustainability goals and meet their environmental, health and safety objectives while advancing ERM’s purpose through delivering tangible progress in what the United Nations coined The Decade of Action. Organizing our people across globally integrated communities of technical and strategic talent positions ERM to be a “boots to boardroom” leader in bringing that value creation to our clients, partners, and the world.

We recruit exceptional professionals with a personal and professional passion for sustainability and nurture them to even greater success as specialists. We prepare our consultants to bring integrated, innovative and sustainable solutions to our clients and provide opportunities for ongoing development across a variety of subject areas related to technical, business, and personal growth. At ERM, effort pays off and becomes career defining work that leaves a positive imprint on our planet.

ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.