Landscape Designer/Architect

If you are a talented designer and great thinker with a landscape architecture degree and between 3 to6 years of experience, keep reading. Stantec is growing its urban design and landscape architecture practice in Milwaukee and across the Midwest. As a company, we have a strong regional presence in Wisconsin offering landscape architecture, architecture, civil engineering, and environmental services. Working in collaboration with our partners, our studio provides planning, landscape architecture and urban design services of the highest caliber. We have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects from urban parks, plazas and streetscapes to institutional campuses, master-planned communities to river corridors and forest preserves. Our office is on East Michigan Street in downtown Milwaukee, just outside of the Historic Third Ward.

Stantec is a global consulting firm with opportunities to be involved in far-reaching planning and design projects as well as collaborate with Stantec’s leading experts in a variety of fields and disciplines. Some of these experts include those focused on autonomous vehicles, micro-mobility, Smart Cities, resilience, green infrastructure and habitat restoration. We’re part of the Midwest Urban Places team of professionals in Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Minneapolis that regularly works with many of Stantec’s business lines including Buildings, Community Development, Environmental Services, Transportation and Water.

The reach of Stantec’s platform is amazing and what we are building in Milwaukee is about connecting people with great places. We are driven to make community design impacts within geographic reach of Milwaukee in addition to regularly engaging with cool projects throughout the country. Through high-quality planning and design, we empower communities and help realize their potential. Our landscape architects create inspired spaces that reflect context and user needs along with our commitment to sustainability. We take a collaborative approach to design and believe that the best solutions are the 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, excellent graphic communication skills, articulate written and verbal communication, a rigor to produce the best design solutions and work products possible as well as an interest in collaboration with other team members.

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

Key Responsibilities

• Work under the direction of licensed Landscape Architects to assist in the development of projects in the Midwest and across the U.S. by collaborating with Stantec’s Buildings, Community Development, Urban Places, Water, Environmental Services, and other project teams.
• 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 design and project tasks as appropriate.
• Understand and execute the site inventory and analysis process. Investigate design variables, owner/client requirements, budget constraints, regulatory constraints, site constraints, building operation, circulation, site grading, stormwater management, sustainability, soils, planting plans, and the preparation of construction documents.
• Prepare schematic, conceptual, 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.