Project Landscape Designer

ABOUT YOU

Are you passionate about the environment and ready to join an inclusive workplace, committed to leading new ideas and pathways and delivering value? If the answer is “Yes!” then we have an exciting career opportunity for you as a Project Landscape Designer, specializing in Brownfield and Community Revitalization.

Who are we? We are Montrose, a global environmental services provider offering environmental planning and permitting, measurement and analytical services, and environmental resiliency and sustainability solutions. Our qualified engineers, scientists, technicians, associates, and policy experts are proud of our collective expertise and the collaborative nature of our approach to helping clients. We strive to optimize environmental resiliency in a way that effectively complements our clients’ decision-making and operations and efficiently fulfills their project requirements.

We have over 135 offices across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia and are approaching 3500 employees – all ready to provide solutions for environmental needs.

A DAY IN THE LIFE

This is ideal for a “mid-career (8+ year experience)” professional. This is a great opportunity for an architectural or landscape designer with an interest in participatory design. As a you will be part of a strong team of committed professionals. This role will be responsible for a full range of activities including:

Neighborhood-Scale and Site-Specific Reuse Planning and Design

• Implementing the design process to create neighborhood-scale brownfields area-wide plans and site-specific reuse plans through processes through:

1) Desktop analysis of demographic and socio-economic conditions,

2) Review and synopsis of previous planning and design efforts,

3) Site/Neighborhood reconnaissance and analysis,

4) Preparing diagrammatic and narrative inventory and analysis,

5) Developing initial and final reuse programs that respond to available market research, community input, and environmental constraints,

6) Creating initial concepts, sketches, and/or vignettes,

7) Implementing feedback loops through charrettes, workshops, and other participatory design exercises,

8) Demonstrating design alternatives,

9) Inviting and incorporating feedback through iterative methods,

10) Finalizing illustrative conceptual design drawings and illustrations in plan, section, and perspective, and

11) Compiling design content into reports

• Present technical information and project updates to diverse audiences, ensuring transparency and promoting community involvement in decision-making processes.

• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to design effective, efficient remedial site design solutions that comply with federal, state, and local regulations.

• Evaluate and advise redevelopment options based on zoning and ordinance restrictions.

• Technical landscape construction drawings and construction oversight.

Stakeholder and Public Engagement

• Promoting engagement opportunities and program efforts through outreach efforts including: web promotion, program marketing, and other methods of outreach.

• Facilitating communication and collaboration among stakeholders, including property owners, developers, government agencies, community groups, and the public through in-person and virtual meetings, neighborhood workshops, site tours, community surveys, and focus groups.

• Assistance with implementing participatory design processes where stakeholder and community engagement efforts are clearly integrated into design outcomes.

• Assistance with note taking and engagement follow up activities

Project Management

• Manage project tasks from inception through completion, including budgeting, scheduling, and resource allocation.

• Monitor project progress, assess risks, and implement corrective actions to achieve project milestones and objectives.

• Maintaining project schedules and adjusting based on community, regulatory, or grant timelines, tracking internal budgets, grant allocations, and percent complete for multiple projects,

• Coordinating staff across multiple nationwide offices and disciplines, when necessary.

• Leading and facilitating project discussions internally and among clients.

• Identify and recommend project next steps.

Other

• Contribute to the growth of Montrose’s Brownfields Planning and Engagement Practice

• Identify and pursue business development opportunities to continue conceptual design projects through to construction.

• Keeping up-to-date a