Job Details

Landscape Architect

Come join a dynamic and fun-loving team that takes pride in their planning and design work on the beautiful California Central Coast! We focus on our purpose with integrity, great quality, and mutual respect, while creating great value to the clients and communities we serve. We also have generous benefits and competitive compensation packages tailored to match experience and qualifications.

Location: San Luis Obispo

Salary Range: $80,000 - $105,000 annually

Experience and Qualifications:

We are seeking a full-time Landscape Architect to join our landscape architecture team. An ideal candidate shall have a bachelors degree in landscape architecture and be a licensed landscape architect in the State of California (or eligible for reciprocity) with five (5) or more years of experience in a similar firm setting. The ideal candidate shall exhibit working proficiency using AutoCAD, LandFX, Bluebeam, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SketchUp, Photoshop, and InDesign. The ideal candidate should exhibit critical and creative thinking, technical and conceptual design, have positive work habits and the ability to work within a collaborative team environment.

Key Expectations:

Our team is keen on professionalism merged with fun and a responsible work ethic. We depend on each other and clarity in our communication skills, learning from each other and adhering to our Quality Control procedures. We want to empower the success of a team member who demonstrates strong teamwork and project delivery.

Duties:

A Landscape Architect helps the Department by successfully accomplishing the following duties:

• Take responsible role in the design and management of projects and tasks and be able to manage the team budget of tasks and take ownership of work products in a timely manner.
• Exhibit a basic understanding of interdisciplinary relationships in projects.
• Assist Director and Senior Landscape Architects with design decisions and viable project solutions.
• Have regular interaction with client/agency on project level and assist with client/agency communications.
• Understand overall project objectives for medium to large projects of increasing complexity.
• Understand the relationship of assigned tasks to overall project objectives for larger and more complex projects.
• Be the decision maker for viable solutions from the Design Team and be able to coordinate production of complex plan sets across disciplines and with subs.
• Able to assist and coordinate production of multiple graphic exhibits, including plan renderings, sections, perspectives, and design image boards and assist with QA/QC of these items.
• Have increased proficiency with applying a variety of AutoCad & Land FX standards.
• Proficient in applying department and industry standards and criteria and begin to offer suggestions for adapting and creating new standards and criteria for the department.
• Participate in company-wide efforts such as training, development of standards, mentoring, and assisting staff with design solutions.
• Increased proficiency in preparing technical specifications, and a general knowledge of construction general conditions, and front-end contract documents and able to assist with preparation of Measurement and Payment definitions.
• Perform QA/QC on specific task elements in area of competency.
• Provide input to Director for department marketing strategies/business plan action items.
• Assist with business development and with client relationships, generally understand scope relationships between disciplines, and assist with preparing draft scope descriptions and budgets for multiple tasks in area of competency.

About Wallace Group

Our staff is committed to service, to each other, our clients, and our communities. We are active volunteers and leaders in our business and personal communities, and we have a commitment to the long-term health and viability of our built environment.

Like our community, we are diversified personally and professionally with multiple disciplines and interests. We understand the importance of teamwork and enjoyment of our work in order to deliver meaningful, and effective designs. We foster teamwork and enjoyment by getting to know each other and our neighbors better with Company sponsored events such as with our Fun Committee, our Charitable Contributions Committee, through our paid leave for community service, and a variety of other activities.

Since our founding in 1984, our focus and passion has centered on people. We value our long-standing external and internal client partnerships by demonstrating integrity, fairness and reliability in all we do. At Wallace Group we believe in our motto Dedication to Service, this results in both the quantitative and the qualitative rewards for our staff and those we serve.

Please visit our website at www.wallacegroup.us for more information about Wallace Group including our benefits package found on the Careers page.

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