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Landscape Designer - ( 220001DQ )

Description

Whether it is an urban park, a commercial center, a residential neighborhood, complete streets or green infrastructure, we design the spaces that make communities feel like home. Our team of Landscape Architects, Civil Engineers and Urban Planners connect the people, places, and resources that take a project from concept to reality. Stantec is the place where great ideas come to life and rewarding careers happen.

Your Opportunity

Stantec Planning and Landscape Architecture Inc., one of New England’s leading Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, Site-Planning, and Urban Design firms is seeking a full time Project Landscape Architect for our Causeway Street studio in Boston.

We design urban parks and plazas, transportation corridors, campus settings, waterfronts and mixed-use centers that enhance our communities. Our experienced inter-disciplinary team specializes in urban public space design and planning; campus design and planning, park design; bicycle, pedestrian, and multiuse trails; outdoor sports and athletic facilities; transit-oriented development; and landscape assessment and rehabilitation. Our friendly fast-paced studio environment is business casual and client-centered.

The preferred candidate has recent experience with public projects, including public parks, complete streets, linear parks (rail trails) and transportation enhancements. Clients will be both State and Municipal, as well as supporting internal Stantec groups on other public projects.

Your Key Responsibilities

You will work with close guidance and supervision on tasks and smaller projects, and as a team member of a larger project under the guidance of a Senior Landscape Architect.

In this entry level position, you will develop technical skills and assist the project team with drawings and drafting in the creative design process. Being creative and detail oriented, you will create design documents, together with conceptual and final landscape designs, renderings, cost estimates, scope of work, specifications, and other construction documents, including local requirements.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Strong working knowledge of AutoCAD, SketchUp and/or Rhino, Adobe Creative Suite, and Microsoft Office

• Excellent grading skills

• Knowledge of construction document preparation

• Familiarity with plant materials suited to the Northeast region.

• Proficient hand drafting and sketching abilities resulting in strong conceptual designs.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from an accredited Landscape Architecture program

• 1-3 years of internship and/or full-time experience in a detail-oriented office environment

• Licensure in Landscape Architecture is not required but is advantageous

• Strong time management, critical thinking, and organization skills

• Comfortable with being productive independently with limited supervision.

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

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 our flexible work environment and collaborative teams and redefine your personal best.

Primary Location : United States-Massachusetts-Boston

Other Locations : United States-Massachusetts

Job : Landscape Designer

Organization : BC-2104 Community Development-US Northeast

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : Yes, 10 % of the Time

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Apr 7, 2022, 8:24:23 AM

Req ID: 220001DQ

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