Senior Landscape Architect

DLR Group; United States; Remote; USD 93,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading integrated design firm is seeking a Senior Landscape Architect in Riverside, CA. You will develop innovative and sustainable landscape designs while managing project operations and leading a team. Candidates should have a Bachelor's in Landscape Architecture and 10-20 years of experience. The role offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits, including a flexible work model.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Wellness programs

401(k) plan

Employee stock ownership

Paid holidays

Bonus opportunities

Qualifications

• 10-20 years of professional experience.
• Prior experience in leading, mentoring, and managing staff.
• Experience in proposal preparation.
• Experience with specification writing and construction administration.

Responsibilities

• Manage operations execution and expectations for the Landscape Architecture Discipline.
• Develop and communicate operations plans.
• Direct or coordinate activities of personnel and consultants.
• Support business development initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Sustainable design

Project management

Landscape design

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture

Tools

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

DLR Group has an opening for a Senior Landscape Architect.

Location:

• Riverside, CA

Position Summary

As a Senior Landscape Architect, you will be responsible for developing creative reliable sustainable functional and economical landscape designs for our diverse group of clients. As part of our integrated design teams the Landscape Architect creates site designs that are integrally developed with the architecture and site engineering with the goal of elevating the human experience through design.

The successful candidate will:

• Manage operations execution and expectations for the Landscape Architecture Discipline in California.
• Develop communicate and update operations plans to include information such as objectives schedules funding and staffing.
• Direct or coordinate activities of personnel vendors and consultants.
• Assign duties responsibilities and projects to personnel.
• Schedule facilitate and document meetings with staff and clients related to overall operations.
• Participate in the development and negotiation of contracts as well as service change request; and initiate review or approve modifications to plans.
• Partner with sector and practice leadership to perform all personnel functions such as selection training and evaluation of personnel.
• Support business development initiatives by assisting the RFP process and interview process.
• Actively engage in community and/or industry specific organization that will build the DLR Group brand.
• Maintain industry leading workplace design practices to drive operating unit and culture towards a great place to work status.
• Properly balance staffing and workload to achieve profit and revenue growth goals.
• Develop Site and Landscape related specifications.
• Conduct site visits when needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture.
• 10-20 years of professional experience.
• Prior experience in leading mentoring and managing staff.
• Experience in proposal preparation.
• Experience with specification writing construction administration multi discipline coordination scheduling and management of multiple projects.
• Experience and interest in preparing sustainable and low-impact landscape planting and irrigation designs.
• Experience in preparing site grading site development and site detailing.
• Experience in Construction Document preparation for site development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Site Master Planning experience preferred.

Our comprehensive Benefits at DLR Group include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401(k) plan, employee stock ownership, and bonus opportunities. Compensation considerations are based on location, experience, and skills. The suggested pay range for this position is:

Pay Range

$93,000 - $144,000 USD

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.
DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.

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