Principal Landscape Architect

Toole Design Group in Raleigh, NC is looking to hire an experienced and talented full-time Principal Landscape Architect. This is an opportunity to step into a leadership role with a talented group of designers as we continue to build our team in Raleigh. Do you have 15+ years of progressive experience in landscape architecture and sound capabilities in business development and project management? Are you passionate about re-imagining public spaces that promote livable and equitable communities with mobility choices for all? Would you enjoy working on a variety of streetscape, trails, and active transportation 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 Principal Landscape Architect position will lead projects with a focus on the 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 Principal Landscape Architect

As a Principal 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 Principal 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. You will identify and lead project proposals as we pursue new projects and build relationships with new clients. 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, engineers, and environmental graphic designers to develop successful project solutions.

You will apply your broad knowledge of technical criteria and methods, design documentation, 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 bringing projects from concept to construction to project work and pursuits. As a part of our landscape architecture practice, you will be at the table with our clients, community members, working collaboratively projects from start to finish, from stakeholder outreach and design workshops to construction documents and observation.

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 $95,000 to $115,000 for this position.

Qualifications of a Principal Landscape Architect:

• A bachelor's and/or master's degree in Landscape Architecture
• 15+ years of progressive landscape architecture experience
• Licensure or ability to complete licensure within one year of employment
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in all phases of design, streetscapes, plazas and parks, master plans, planting plans, and specifications
• Strong proficiency with hand and digital graphic techniques to communicate design ideas and produce illustrative graphics
• Proficiency in Bluebeam and Microsoft Office Suite