Senior Landscape Architect

Design empowers people; it inspires place and community and allows for the realization of their potential. Our Landscape Architects create inspired places where design meets life with engaging solutions and a commitment to sustainability. We take a collaborative design approach and believe that the best solutions are the products of diverse perspectives. Our multidisciplinary team unites all aspects of a project through the practice of landscape architecture. We are skilled in the art of collaboration and communication and engage our work in concert with architects, engineers, and environmental specialists.

Your Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Landscape Architect to join our Community Development Team. The successful candidate will work directly with the Community Development practice, including Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Engineering disciplines and Business Lines. They will lead assignments across disciplines, seek and position Stantec for new pursuits, manage assignments, provide critical urban and landscape architecture design experience, and interact with existing and prospective clients with exemplary communication skills and a strategic and design-oriented perspective.

As a Landscape Architecture team lead, you will work in a team environment and lead the planning and design of urban spaces, parks, and recreation facilities; bicycle, pedestrian, and multiuse trails; sports and athletic facilities; healthcare, urban infill, corporate, and renewable energy projects. While your focus will be local, you will be part of a larger Regional and National Landscape Architecture Practice. This provides a wider range of opportunities and will allow you to draw on specific expertise and experience from across the practice.

Our office is a fast-paced, client-centered, multi-disciplinary environment combining in-house architects, engineers, environmental specialists, and landscape architects. Stantec is the place where opportunity, great ideas and rewarding careers happen.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Pursuit identification and team lead in procuring new assignments
• Client relationships and client-facing responsibility on key assignments
• Project development through relationships, vision, and leveraging in-house expertise and client position
• Project scoping and concept through construction phase project management
• Site analysis and design concept development including oversight of digital and hand-illustrated deliverables suitable to communicate design intent to clients and staff.
• Lead the project team with the preparation of project documentation during all phases of design, such as project graphics and exhibits, site grading, paving designs, walls, structures, site lighting, and planting design, as well as layout of land uses for buildings and other facilities.
• Lead the project team with planting design including developing planting concepts or plans.
• Support construction administration on projects by attending site visits and/or construction meetings and assisting in preparing sketches or drawing revisions
• Oversight and leadership on analysis, design reports and master plan level graphics and narratives
• Design and thought leadership pertaining to public realm and infrastructure in urban environments
• Staff mentorship and inter-office collaboration throughout the Northeast Region