Landscape Designer/Architect

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.

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