Associate Landscape Architect​/Landscape Architect II​/Landscape Designer II

Associate Landscape Architect / Landscape Architect II / Landscape Designer II

The City of Fremont's Community Services Department is recruiting for the following position.

The Community Services Department plays a key role in enhancing the community by designing dynamic parks, creatively implementing public art, expanding the urban forest, hosting popular community events, providing fun recreation programs, and delivering excellent customer service.

The Parks Planning and Design Division’s award-winning studio seeks to fill a vacancy in its 8-person design team. We aim to create imaginative public spaces, build exciting new parks, implement and appropriately site art in public places, and improve park equity throughout the City through strategic parkland acquisitions.

The position will be filled as either an Associate Landscape Architect or a lower level Landscape Architect II/Designer II, depending upon qualifications and fit. Both positions will perform professional‑level landscape architectural work related to the design, construction, and rehabilitation of landscape and irrigation for parks, landscaped areas, and street and urban design projects. In addition, the Associate level incumbent will serve as project manager, team leader and/or supervisor, and consultant manager for site development of city facilities.

Depending upon assignment, duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Using prescribed methods and procedures, incumbents perform specific and limited portions of a broader assignment of an experienced landscape architect.
• Applies basic principles of landscape architecture design in specific situations.
• Follows through on a series of specific tasks.
• Recognizes and evaluates the role of work tasks in accomplishing a larger project.
• Prepares plans for planting, irrigation, site plans, grading, and layout for parks and median projects.
• Designs and drafts details for planting, irrigation, paving, walls, fences, drainage, site furnishings, and play areas.
• Prepares graphics for presentations or reports.
• Makes quantity and cost estimates.
• Researches materials and products for suitability in landscape architecture projects.
• Uses appropriate manual and automated design tools to perform job tasks.
• Provides information to the public on City landscape requirements.

• In addition to the duties listed above, incumbents prepare preliminary and final working drawings of landscape and irrigation designs.
• Assists the public with questions involving landscape problems.
• Assists in the preparation and reviews of landscape plans and contract specifications.
• Assists with conducting field inspections for compliance with landscape and irrigation plans and specifications.
• Composes correspondence and minor reports as directed by the Senior Landscape Architect and the Associate Landscape Architect.
• Performs related professional landscape work as required.
• May be assigned project management duties for projects with small to medium complexity.

• In addition to the duties listed above, incumbents review and approve minor site development plans submitted for development approval for conformance with plans, specifications, and ordinances.

• In addition to the duties listed above, incumbents perform professional landscape architectural work as project manager in the preparation of landscape design and layout of parks, recreational areas, roadway medians and pedestrian ways.
• Prepares master park development plans, specifications, contracts, cost estimates and working drawings for assigned projects using manual and automated design tools.
• Makes field inspections to ensure compliance with drawings and specifications.
• Reviews and approves site development plans submitted for development approval for conformance with plans, specifications, and ordinances.
• Uses manual and automated design tools to design and/or administer contracts for the design of landscaping for City property, including parks, medians, and building grounds.
• Serves as…