Project Landscape Architect

Toole Design Group in Boston, MA is looking to hire an experienced and talented full-time Project Landscape Architect. Do you have 8+ years of progressive experience in landscape architecture, including concept through final design, and sound capabilities in business development and project management? Do you desire to work with and lead multidisciplinary teams focused on creating vibrant, active spaces and places for people of all ages and abilities? Would you like to work for a firm that is committed to the well-being of its employees? If so, please consider joining our Boston team.

This Project Landscape Architect position will lead projects with a focus on public realm and active transportation, and earns a competitive salary and great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, retirement, a health savings account (HSA), and a flexible spending account (FSA). We practice what we preach and ensure that our employees also have access to transportation by providing them with financial incentives to bike, walk, or use transit for a better quality of life.

About Toole Design

Toole Design is the leading planning, landscape architecture, and engineering firm specializing in multimodal transportation. Since our start in 2003 as a single office in Maryland, we have expanded throughout the United States and Canada. Our talented team of planners, landscape architects, and engineers are committed to delivering quality work that meets the needs of all people, regardless of age, ability, race or gender. We have been named a "best firm to work for" and have one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the industry.

Every project our employees deliver directly and positively affects our communities. We are industry-leading experts, and we work hard to encourage a collaborative and team-oriented environment.

A Day in the Life of a Project Landscape Architect

As a Project Landscape Architect, you'll be working directly with the Boston Leadership Team, including the Office Director and Director of Landscape Architecture. The expectation is for the Project Landscape Architect to hit the ground running, working with existing clients and project teams, and elevate design capabilities in our New England market. Additionally, in collaboration with the other design professionals in the firm, you will help to grow our landscape architecture practice and build our portfolio for landscape architecture as a core Toole Design service practice area influencing how we discuss, develop, and design the largest part of our public realm, our transportation network. In projects, you will often serve as Project Manager or Design Director, establishing the project focus and design direction, leading a team of designers, planners, and engineers to develop successful project solutions.

You will apply your broad knowledge of design technical criteria and methods, spatial design and hands-on management experience to a variety landscape architecture and urban design projects. You will share a commitment to design excellent, and work with a collaborative team. You'll lend your knowledge and experience in project programming, master planning, site design to all design phases. As a part of our landscape architecture practice, you will be at the table with our clients, community members, working collaboratively with our planners, and engineers on projects from start to finish, from stakeholder outreach and design workshops to construction documents and administration.

Your job can sometimes be challenging, but you get to work with a close-knit team that is passionate about the work and the communities that you serve.

Qualifications of a Project Landscape Architect:

• A bachelor's and/or master's degree in landscape architecture
• 8+ years of progressive career experience
• Licensure in MA and/or other New England States
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in streetscape design, project programming, master planning, site design, and all design phases
• Experience in construction methods and management
• Strong proficiency with hand and digital graphic techniques to communicate design ideas and produce illustrative graphics
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Sketchup, AutoCAD
• An interest in streetscapes and multimodal transportation design
• A client-service attitude and entrepreneurial spirit
• Strong project management skills including development of project staffing and schedules, developing and monitoring project budgets, cost estimating and specifications

You'll be great here if:

• You're a motivated, self-driven, detail-oriented person that enjoys solving problems and takes pride in the quality o