Senior Landscape Architect

Senior Landscape Architect

Join AECOM's Transportation Business Line as a Landscape Architect IV. Make a significant impact on transportation projects across the Southeast with your talent and experience. AECOM is seeking a creative professional to join our team and help shape innovative designs for streetscapes, highway beautification, and multimodal pathways.

Lead high-profile transportation projects:
Shape the vision and design of transformative transportation corridors, highway corridors, complete streets, transit facilities, and multimodal networks throughout the Southeast.

Influence project strategy:
Partner with transportation planners, engineers, urban designers, and clients to develop innovative, sustainable, and context-sensitive design solutions.

Regional impact:
Help create resilient, aesthetically impactful transportation environments that improve mobility, safety, and quality of life for communities.

Primary responsibilities:

• Lead landscape architecture tasks for complex transportation projects from planning through construction administration.
• Serve as a design lead, providing creative direction and quality oversight for project deliverables.
• Collaborate directly with clients, transportation agencies, and stakeholders to develop project goals and design solutions.
• Mentor and guide junior landscape architects, designers, and technical staff.
• Prepare and review planting plans, hardscape layouts, visual simulations, specifications, cost estimates, and technical reports.
• Support project pursuits, proposals, and presentations to transportation agencies and municipal clients.
• Ensure compliance with applicable DOT standards, environmental regulations, and project requirements.
• Contribute to business development efforts and help strengthen AECOM's transportation landscape architecture practice.

Qualifications:

Minimum:

• BA/BS in Landscape Architecture or related field
• 6 years of Landscape Architecture experience or related field or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

Preferred:

• Licensed Landscape Architect or actively pursuing licensure
• Familiarity with native and climate-appropriate plant communities in the US Southeast region
• Experience with Micro Station and DOT-related construction documentation
• Experience with Design-Build project delivery
• Experience with RFP/RFQ processes for public agencies, institutions, organizations, and private entities
• Proficiency in AutoCAD, 3D modeling, and ArcGIS

Additional information:

• Relocation is an option for this position
• Sponsorship for US employment authorization is not available now or in the future for this position

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