Job description:
Roles
The Landscape deisgner works on the development of project concept design, site plans, specifications, production of presentation drawings, and sketches. He/she finds design solutions for a variety of project types from hotel and resort destinations, residential multi-family communities, urban and mixed-use development, and large-scale master planning developments.
Responsibilities
- Designs landscape architectural projects while developing progressive solutions to design challenges
- Confers directly with senior leadership in the development of design concepts and project implementation to respond to the design intent, schedule, and budget -
- Prepares, modifies, and reviews the production of drawings and models according to established standards
- Prepares site plans to include grading, hardscape, water feature, planting design, stormwater management systems design, and landscaping
- May have input into erosion control plans and sediment control design
- Develops diagrams, renderings, and conceptual graphics with members of the project team
- Participates, and may direct project planning and design, including due diligence studies, concept plans, site and landscape plans, and the production of design computations
- Completes design sketches, presentation drawings, diagrams, schedules and other computer-generated or hand-drawn project documents
- Contributes to layout studies and yield studies
- Provides specialized technical assistance with particular landscape building types, components, materials, elements or building codes
- Provides QA/QC on plans and specifications, developing solutions to technical problems in the landscape architectural plans and drawings
- May oversee a small team in project requirements and objectives, schedules and budgets
- May coordinate client presentations
- Fosters a commitment to external and internal client services
Qualifications
- Post-graduate diploma or degree in Landscaping
- 4+ years of experience in landscape architecture and/or site design
- Professional license (if any)
- Proficient technical knowledge of Photoshop, InDesign, SketchUp, Illustrator, and AutoCAD; Revit and Rhino experience preferred
- Strong freehand illustration and rendering skills, visualization, and digital graphic skills preferred
- Effective communication skills in verbal presentation, written narrative, and graphic representation with Chinese clients
- Ability to manage multiple project priorities simultaneously and meet deadlines consistently
- Works well in a team environment
