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Landscape Designer, Landscape Architecture
Halff is seeking New Graduates who will graduate in May 2027 to join our dynamic Planning & Landscape Architecture team in Oklahoma City, OK as a Landscape Designer. You'll have the chance to collaborate with a talented group of landscape architects, planners, and other professionals, lending your skills to a diverse range of public and private projects. From park and recreation design to urban plazas, streetscapes, and large-scale planning initiatives, you'll play a key role in shaping impactful spaces. If you're eager to grow your career, contribute to exciting projects, and be part of a team where professional and personal development - including potential firm ownership - are within reach, we'd love to hear from you!
What You Will Do
Halff's Landscape Architecture Services
Halff is a full-service infrastructure consulting firm planned, designed, engineered, constructed — and purposed — for people. Since 1950, we’ve been creating smart solutions that improve lives and communities by turning ideas into reality.
Halff was founded on a core tenet: Focus on people, treat them well, and success will follow. It’s no wonder, then, that our employees and the culture they create result in our firm consistently being named a Top Workplace in America.
Our industry-leading professionals collaborate to meet tough challenges in creative ways. You can view Halff's full complement of services here
Halff has over 35 offices in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, Arizona and Georgia. For a full list of our locations, click here
We Offer Excellent Benefits, Including But Not Limited To
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
Halff is a drug-free workplace. This offer of employment is contingent upon the receipt of a clear drug screen and background check prior to your first day of employment. This position may be subject to random drug testing pursuant to federal regulations.
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Halff is seeking New Graduates who will graduate in May 2027 to join our dynamic Planning & Landscape Architecture team in Oklahoma City, OK as a Landscape Designer. You'll have the chance to collaborate with a talented group of landscape architects, planners, and other professionals, lending your skills to a diverse range of public and private projects. From park and recreation design to urban plazas, streetscapes, and large-scale planning initiatives, you'll play a key role in shaping impactful spaces. If you're eager to grow your career, contribute to exciting projects, and be part of a team where professional and personal development - including potential firm ownership - are within reach, we'd love to hear from you!
What You Will Do
- Landscape architectural and planning project support.
- Work directly with landscape architects, engineers, surveyors, and other design support services.
- Participate in site inventory and analysis.
- Assist with project research and data compilation to be used in design process.
- Produce conceptual site planning and graphics (hand and digital), schematic/preliminary design plans and graphics, design development and construction document plans and details.
- Produce quantity take-offs and develop opinion of costs.
- Assist with technical specification preparation for bid documents.
- Produce landscape compliance documents for land development projects.
- Produce maps and graphic renderings in support of planning projects.
- Bachelor's Degree or Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture from an accredited university is required.
- A minimum of 0 to 2 years of experience in Landscape Architecture, specifically in designing projects such as parks, recreation and trail planning and design, urban parks, plazas, streetscapes, transportation enhancements, land development, and providing support for large-scale planning projects.
- Well organized, detail oriented, and highly motivated.
- Strong design and graphic skills.
- Excellent writing and communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience with industry software applications such as AutoCAD, Land F/X, SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop/InDesign/Illustrator, and Microsoft Office.
- ArcGIS experience is a plus.
- Ability to travel periodically primarily in state to support project needs.
- Our team gets involved early in the process to develop a plan that seamlessly integrates built elements with the natural environment.
- We understand that a successful design should be driven by how the entity, whether a park, trail or other public area, will be used.
- Halff’s projects and employees are consistently recognized for their excellence.
Halff's Landscape Architecture Services
- Active Transportation Planning
- Streetscapes and Gateways
- Trail Planning and Design
- Neighborhood and Community Parks Planning and Design
- Nature Parks and Greenways
- Sport Facilities and Feasibility Studies
- Master Planned Communities
- Land and Site Planning
- Urban Design and Placemaking
- Low Impact Development / Green Infrastructure
Halff is a full-service infrastructure consulting firm planned, designed, engineered, constructed — and purposed — for people. Since 1950, we’ve been creating smart solutions that improve lives and communities by turning ideas into reality.
Halff was founded on a core tenet: Focus on people, treat them well, and success will follow. It’s no wonder, then, that our employees and the culture they create result in our firm consistently being named a Top Workplace in America.
Our industry-leading professionals collaborate to meet tough challenges in creative ways. You can view Halff's full complement of services here
Halff has over 35 offices in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, Arizona and Georgia. For a full list of our locations, click here
We Offer Excellent Benefits, Including But Not Limited To
- Medical, dental, prescription and life insurance
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Paid time off (PTO) and 8 company paid holidays (and Veteran's Day for our veterans)
- Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 529 College Savings Plan
- Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Employee Assistance Plan
- Click here for a more comprehensive list of Halff's benefits
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
Halff is a drug-free workplace. This offer of employment is contingent upon the receipt of a clear drug screen and background check prior to your first day of employment. This position may be subject to random drug testing pursuant to federal regulations.
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