Senior Landscape Architect

Are you looking for a position with a work/life balance? Do you want to earn four (4) weeks off during your first year of employment? Do you want low and no cost health insurance options? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you need to complete your application now. Work for the city you love!!!

The Public Works Department is actively seeking a Senior Landscape Architect.

Did you know as a City of Jacksonville employee, you would also have twelve (12) paid holidays and a personal leave day as well? In addition to health insurance, dental, vision, life insurance and flexible spending plans are also available. City of Jacksonville employees are also eligible for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness after ten (10) years of public service and on-time payments.

This is technical work managing large-scale and complex City projects. This will include designing, developing, reviewing, inspecting, and overseeing design projects for conformance and adherence to development principles and practices. This position will provide construction inspection, including grading and drainage, hardscape, landscape, utility coordination, City buildings, electrical and plumbing infrastructure. Work requires an understanding and application of the theories, principles and practices of landscape architecture usually gained through degree granting schools or an equivalent level of practical knowledge gained through experience.

Work will include oversight and analysis of consulting and contracting budgets to ensure efficient use of government funds. The work is specialized due to changing site conditions, City needs and aging infrastructure. Contacts with others require skills in understanding and/or influencing people and are important in providing client services, including skills of persuasiveness, assertiveness, and sensitivity to others point of view that are required to influence behavior, change an opinion, or turn a situation around.

The work is covered by clearly defined policies and principles where the worker is required to exercise independent judgment. Solutions to complex problems will need to be determined as conditions arise, with the work involving a variety of situations, facts, or circumstances requiring analytical and constructive reasoning. The work is performed in an office and field environment where there are some risks and hazards, but they are known, somewhat predictable and controllable.

Operates a motor vehicle, personal computers using word processing, spreadsheet, database and other related software, engineering scales, distance measuring devices and other standard office equipment. The physical demands consist of driving, sitting, standing, walking, and lifting objects weighing up to twenty (20) pounds. The work is performed under limited supervision where assignments are subject to established procedures, practices, precedents, methods, techniques, standards, and/or well-defined policies, and the worker plans and organizes the work and determines their own priorities, with the work being reviewed, usually after the fact, in terms of quality, volume, timeliness, and for adherence to established methods, standards, and policies.

• Plans, designs, and supervises improvements at different sites.
• Manages budgets for large-scale construction projects.
• Plans large scale City capital improvement budgets.
• Analyzes consulting and construction budgets for accuracy and efficiency.
• Reviews design plans for quality control and consistency with design guidelines and safety and maintenance standards.
• Prepares landscape and site development plans for projects.
• Prepares designs and specifications appropriate for bidding projects.
• Manages design services for landscape architecture and construction projects.
• Manages and conducts construction inspections.
• Develops department design standards.
• Collaborates with architects, engineers, contractors, and the public concerning sites, plans, codes, and ordinances.
• Prepares and issues reports, correspondence and procedures.
• Coordinates various improvement projects.
• Prepares fee proposals for project coordination, site planning and landscape architect services requested for…