Landscape Architect/Project Manager

Dewberry is currently seeking a Senior Landscape Architect Project Manager to serve as the landscape architecture team lead, in our Orlando, FL office. This is an excellent career opportunity to contribute to the overall growth of our landscape architecture practice across the company. Our landscape architecture team provides comprehensive services to our clients from the conceptual stage through design, bidding, and construction administration frequently serving as the design lead. Typical projects involve site design for parks and recreation, multi-family, mixed-use, single family residential neighborhoods, commercial and capital improvement projects.

This is an excellent opportunity, with significant growth potential, that is waiting for the right individual with innate curiosity, ability to collaborate, desire to mentor, ability to lead others wholistically, and who wants to help develop a comprehensive regional practice. Additional opportunities to collaborate with our landscape architects across the enterprise are available.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you're an experienced professional or a new graduate, you'll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call "Dewberry at Work," that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for assisting with recruiting efforts and entry level hiring.
• Leading Staff preparation and coordination of all deliverables to execute projects.
• This position will have several direct reports to manage, and the candidate will collaborate with the team to encourage and foster a culture of design amongst the LA staff.
• Attend outside events to represent the Dewberry Landscape Architecture Team.
• Will need to apply advanced to expert drawing and drafting skills electronically.
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals and provide QA/QC.
• Work with staff and senior managers, acts as a liaison between clients and staff, and presents at client or public meetings.
• Independently applies extensive and diversified knowledge of principals and practices in broad areas of assignments and related fields.
• Uses advanced techniques in the modification of extension of theories and practices of sciences and disciplines to complete assignments.
• Coordinates all project efforts in order to ensure effective execution, prepares strategic plans, and serves as primary client liaison.
• Supports quality management program on project assignments and verifies that quality processes and procedures are followed.
• Manages workload and staff assignments to assure that budget, schedule, and quality objectives are met and identify technical resource needs.

• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Landscape Architecture or Urban Planning.
• 10-15 years of experience in landscape architecture and/or land planning.
• RLA licensure required, CLARB Certification Preferred.
• Strong freehand illustration and rendering skills.
• Experience and advanced knowledge with Photoshop, InDesign, Sketchup, Illustrator, Lumion, GIS/ArcView and Power Point.
• Experience and advanced knowledge with AutoCAD Civil 3D is required.
• Public speaking experience is required.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to effectively lead and manage a team environment.
• Portfolio or work samples will be required if considered for an interview.

Don't meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for our employees. So if you're excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry's background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law..

Notice to Third Party Recruiters: Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.

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