Landscape Designer II

Department: Landscape Architecture

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Compensation: $70,000 - $90,000 / year

Description

Alta Planning + Design seeks a Landscape Designer II for our Los Angeles office. This production-level position is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation and who is interested in growing their career as a transportation planning professional. If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, apply with Alta today!

About Alta
Alta Planning + Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go.  

Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 26 years with over 200 staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.

Day to Day

In this role, you’ll work on the design of a variety of sustainable transportation and non-motorized recreation projects. This may include concept-level design on efforts such as Complete Streets or greenway corridor studies, to detailed development of construction documents, cost estimates, and specifications. Specific project work may involve shared use path design and feasibility, on-street bikeway design, wayfinding signage design, streetscape design, natural surface trail design, park and open space design, tactical urbanism, and urban design. Designers will be challenged to think at a variety of scales from the systems-level down to specific sites or intersections. Designers who enjoy working closely with other disciplines will appreciate Alta’s multi-disciplinary approach that encourages collaboration with our planners, engineers, graphics designers, outreach specialists, and data analysts.

Qualifications

Required

This position requires a combination of skills, experience and education including, but not limited to

• Passion for active transportation
• Bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture, architecture, urban design, or a related field
• Desire to collaborate and participate in multidisciplinary teams
• 2+ years of transportation planning or design experience
• Adobe Creative Suite proficiency- InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop in particular
• AutoCAD proficiency
• Basic knowledge of multimodal transportation planning practices and trail design standards
• Effective oral, written, and graphic communication skills
• Ability to lead, prepare, and contribute to the preparation of plans, reports, memos, and presentation materials
• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to independently work on multiple projects and complete tasks at a high level of quality
• Ability to participate in public outreach or conduct site visits

There are a number of additional skills, experience, and education that would be beneficial to this position including, but not limited to:

• Basic understanding of ArcGIS Pro
• Digital rendering and hand sketching skills
• Ability to prepare graphics and maps
• Master’s degree in a related field
• Consulting experience
• Interest in business development
• Membership in a professional practice organization
• Specific experience planning and designing multimodal transportation projects or trail design

What We Offer

Flexible ScheduleAlta offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule where most employees work from home three days per week. In-office days support our collaborative culture, one of our core values.

The office is located in downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) right across from the 7th Street/Metro Center Station. We