Landscape Designer

Landscape Designer - ( 220002IN )

Description

If you are a talented designer and great thinker with a landscape architecture or urban design degree and at least two (2) years of professional experience, keep reading…

Stantec is growing its landscape architecture and urban design practice in Tampa and throughout Florida. We have a strong regional presence in our Tampa design studio offering landscape architecture, civil engineering, and planning services. Working in collaboration with our partners, our studio provides (repetitive) design services for a wide variety of project types and scales including urban parks, plazas, streetscapes, master planned communities, healthcare and office campus design, and sports/athletics facilities. Our office, located on Harbour Island, in the heart of the Tampa across the channel from Water Street, the growing urban redevelopment project. Stantec has been involved with the project since early in the master planning phase.

Stantec, a global consulting firm, provides opportunities to be involved in far-reaching planning, urban design, and landscape architecture projects as well as collaboration with Stantec's leading experts in a variety of fields. Some of these fields include autonomous vehicles, micro-mobility, Smart Cities, stormwater infrastructure, and habitat restoration. We are part of the Community Development practice team of professionals in Tampa, Orlando, Sarasota, Naples and throughout the southeast United States that regularly works with many of Stantec's business lines including Buildings, Environmental Services, Ports and Marinas, Transportation, and Water.

The reach of Stantec's platform is amazing and what we are building in Tampa is about reconnecting people with great places through experiential design. We are driven to make community design impacts within the geographic reach of our offices in Florida and throughout the southeast. We take a collaborative approach to design and believe the best solutions are a 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, have excellent graphic communication skills, and articulate written and verbal communication. Candidates will possess the rigor to produce the best design solutions and work products possible and have an interest in collaboration with other team members.

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

You will develop technical skills and assist the project team with drawings, master planning, and drafting throughout the creative design process. Being creative and detail oriented, you will create planning and design documents, together with conceptual and final landscape designs, renderings, cost estimates, as well as have opportunities to meet clients, vendors, and attend site visits.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Work under the direction of licensed Landscape Architects to assist in the development of our ongoing projects by collaborating with our Stantec Tampa team and other project teams in Florida and the US
• 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 project tasks as appropriate
• Understand and execute the site inventory and analysis process. Investigate design variables, owner/client requirements, budget constraints, site constraints, building operation, circulation, site grading, stormwater management, sustainability, soils, planting plans, and the preparation of construction documents
• Prepare conceptual, schematic, 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 seek candidates with two (2) years minimum of prior professional landscape architecture experience (not including internship experience) working within a professional design firm to fill multiple positions. The successful candidate will have the following skills:

• Takes initiative on tasks and in coordinating with other members of the design team
• Understanding of budgeting, efficient use of time and resources as it relates to personal tasks, project scope and project budget issues
• Developing ability to solve problems using sound professional judgment, creativity, and innovation
• Exceptional conceptual design and graphic skills using hand and computer drawing and rendering techniques
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Cloud, and SketchUp is required. Experience with Enscape, Lumion, Twinmotion, Rhino, Grasshopper, or other 3-D visualization programs is strongly preferred
• Exceptional technical design skills in site and planning projects across a range of project scales from less than one acre to thousands of acres in size. Skills required include technical design layout, grading, and detailing projects of all sizes
• Proficiency in AutoCAD Civil 3D and LandFX
• Strong quantitative aptitude and attention to technical detail are required. Prior experience in site construction, either observation or hands-on, is beneficial but not required
• Familiarity with and ability to identify Florida plants a plus, but not required

Education and Experience

• Successful candidates must have an undergraduate and/or graduate degree from an accredited landscape architecture program
• Current licensure as a Landscape Architect is beneficial but is not required. Eventual licensure is anticipated.
• Excellent communications skills, written and verbal
• A desire and ability to be a multi-discipline team member

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

Primary Location : United States-Florida-Tampa

Job : Landscape Designer

Organization : BC-2156 Community Development-US South

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : Yes, 10 % of the Time

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Jul 8, 2022, 1:38:38 PM

Req ID: 220002IN

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