Urban Landscape Planner/Designer - Mid-to-Senior Level

Waggonner & Ball, a Moffatt & Nichol Studio, is actively seeking an Urban Landscape Designer/Planner to join our Northern California team. Waggonner & Ball is an internationally respected urban planning, design, and architecture firm with an interdisciplinary practice committed to creating resilient landscapes, buildings, and communities. Our projects span all scales from buildings and sites to regions with a focus on water, culture, and history. We are a community of designers who create architecture and environments sensitive to context, time and place. We believe that designing for resilience requires Living with Water® and building with nature. We are a cross-disciplinary design practice specializing in adaptation planning, resilient landscapes, institutional architecture, and historic preservation. As a studio within Moffatt & Nichol, a global engineering and infrastructure advisory firm, we streamline design, engineering, and construction services to deliver beautiful, holistic solutions to the most critical climate challenges of our time. 

Waggonner & Ball is an internationally respected urban planning, design, and architecture firm with an interdisciplinary practice committed to creating resilient landscapes, buildings, and communities. Our projects span all scales from buildings and sites to regions with a focus on water, culture, and history. 

Moffatt & Nichol is a leading U.S.-based global infrastructure advisor specializing in the planning and design of facilities that shape and serve our coastlines, harbors and rivers, as well as an innovator in the transportation complexities associated with the movement of freight. For the 3rd year in a row, Moffatt & Nichol is Ranked #1 in Engineering News-Record for Marine & Port Facilities in the U.S. Additionally, our firm consistently ranks in the Top 100 Pure Designers in the US and the Top 50 Designers in International Markets. We were also named Southeast Design Firm of the Year 2023.  

The ideal candidate will have the following key attributes:

• Experienced and/or interest in institutional and civic architecture, landscape, and urban design
• Strong communication (verbal, written and presentation) skills and ability to work with a team approach
• Ability to think at multiple scales, is strong at problem definition and project scoping
• Appreciates natural systems, understanding infrastructure, and can develop built form (structures, landscapes, parks)
• Entrepreneurial spirit, a motivated self-starter to help grow the practice
• Strong understanding and commitment to quality
• Energized to be social and client facing
• Collaborative team player that can effectively work between disciplines to achieve multi-disciplinary work

Duties and responsibilities:

• Participate in the design process from conception through development of construction documents
• Develop and advance creative design concepts for clients/projects
• Produce drawings to create and document architectural designs
• Assist in the development and revision of production drawings and construction documents and corrects and updates documents as required
• Supports review of building codes and zoning analyses to ensure that designs comply with minimum legal standards
• Coordinate with architects, landscape architects, urban designers/planners, engineers, subconsultants and other disciplines as required to deliver projects
• Coordinate activities with Waggonner & Ball New Orleans Studio
• Perform periodic site visits as required
• Closely collaborate with regulatory agencies to shape new and comply with existing policies for resiliency and adaptation projects
• Assist clients with navigating complex evolving coastal and urban policies and regulations
• Attend client meetings including development of meeting minutes
• Support building relationships with existing and new clients
• Participate in projects pursuits / opportunities including positioning, team building, proposal writing, interviewing and contract negotiation

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and/or Master’s degree in Architecture or Landscape Architecture; required
• Minimum 5-10 years of related professional experience; required
• Commitment to Design Excellence
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Problem solving skills, attention to detail, and motivation to learn
• Collaborative and professional work ethic
• Proficiency in 3D modeling, visualization, and graphic software
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite
• Interest in completing ARE, LARE, LEED AP, or NCI