Senior Landscape Architect

Description

Toole Design Group in Raleigh, NC is looking to hire an experienced and talented full-time Senior Landscape Architect. This is an opportunity to be part of a talented group of designers as we continue to build our team in Raleigh. Do you have 10+ years of progressive experience in landscape architecture, including concept through final design, and sound capabilities in business development and project management? Are you passionate about active transportation projects and re-imagining public spaces that promote livable and equitable communities? Would you enjoy working on a variety of projects with unique challenges that encourage creative and critical thinking? Would you like to work for a firm that is committed to the well-being of its employees? If so, please consider joining our Raleigh team.

This Senior 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. 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 Senior Landscape Architect 

As a Senior Landscape Architect, you’ll be working directly with the Raleigh Leadership Team, including the Office Director and Engineering Group Manager. The expectation is for the Senior Landscape Architect to hit the ground running, working with existing clients and project teams, and elevate design capabilities in our North Carolina market along with the larger Southern Region. Additionally, in collaboration with the other design professionals in the firm, you will help to grow our landscape architecture practice and build our portfolio as a core Toole Design service practice area. In projects, you will often serve as Project Manager or Design Task Lead, 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. 

We are targeting a salary range of $85,000 to $100,000 for this position.

Work Schedule for a Senior Landscape Architect 

This full-time position typically works a flexible schedule of 40 hours a week. We also provide employees with the flexibility and necessary equipment to work from home 2-3 days per week. The Raleigh office of Toole Design is conveniently located in downtown Raleigh, just a few blocks from Moore Square and GoRaleigh Station. The office is easily accessed on foot, by bicycle, and via transit.

About our Raleigh Team

We are an incredibly talented and creative, entrepreneurial, hard-working group. We have planners, landscape architects, and engineers that bring the full range of services Toole Design offers, from innovative design and engineering, to best practices in urban planning, to cutting edge research and analysis. We are a tight-knit team that has fun together and supports each other. Our