Associate Landscape Architect

With supervisor approval, incumbents may be eligible for intermittent remote work; however, they must physicallyresidewithin the Sacramento region orhave the ability to regularly report to a City of Sacramento physical worksite with little notice.

The Associate Landscape Architect serves as a key professional within the department by leading the planning, design, and implementation of complex landscape architecture projects that support the City's parks and other public spaces. This position works collaboratively with internal departments, outside agencies, consultants, and the public to ensure projects meet regulatory requirements, design standards, and community needs. In addition to managing projects from concept through construction, the Associate Landscape Architect provides technical guidance and helps ensure high-quality project delivery.

By applying sound professional judgment and independent decision-making, this role contributes to the department's mission of creating safe, functional, and sustainable public environments.

The ideal candidate will be a licensed Landscape Architect with strong technical expertise, sound judgment, and demonstrated experience managing complex landscape architectural projects from planning through construction. They are an effective leader and collaborator who can mentor staff while building productive relationships with City departments, consultants, contractors, regulatory agencies, and community stakeholders. Additionally, the ideal candidate will be skilled in problem-solving, project coordination, and public communication, with a commitment to delivering high-quality, sustainable, and community-focused design solutions.

They will be organized, adaptable, and able to manage multiple priorities while ensuring compliance with applicable standards, regulations, and project objectives.

To perform professional landscape architectural work in planning, designing, technical investigation, and construction of parks, medians, plazas, and other outdoor public spaces.

Landscape Assistant

This is the journey level in the professional landscape architectural series not requiring registration. Positions in this class are flexibly staffed and are normally filled by advancement from the lower class of Junior Landscape Assistant. Incumbents in this class perform moderately difficult professional landscape architectural work. A Landscape Assistant is normally considered to be on a training status. As assigned responsibilities and breadth of knowledge increase with experience, and registration is received, an incumbent may reasonably expect to be reassigned to the next higher class of Associate Landscape Architect.

Associate Landscape Architect

This is the full journey level in the landscape architectural series requiring registration. Positions in this class are flexibly staffed and are normally filled by advancement from the lower class of Landscape Assistant, or, when filled from the outside, require prior advanced professional landscape architectural work experience. An Associate Landscape Architect works under general supervision and is expected to complete complex landscape architectural assignments requiring the use of judgment and initiative in developing solutions to problems, interpreting general policies, and determining priorities for work assignments.

Work in this class is distinguished from that of the Landscape Assistant by the greater complexity of the assignments received and the greater independence with which an incumbent is expected to operate.

Direction is provided by a higher level professional landscape architect or a management position. Responsibilities of an Associate Landscape Architect include the direct and indirect supervision of lower level professional landscape architects, technical personnel, and college student trainees and interns. Responsibilities of a Landscape Assistant may include the technical or functional supervision of technical personnel and/or college student trainees or interns.

• Supervise and participate in the preparation of detailed and complex site plans, master plans, construction drawings, specifications, and cost estimates for the development of parks, plazas, medians, and other landscape architectural projects.
• Supervise and participate in the design of landscape architectural elements including layout, grading, drainage, planting, irrigation, paving, and construction detailing for parks, plazas, medians, and other outdoor public spaces.
• Prepare sketches, preliminary drawings, and schematic designs.
• Review landscape plans to insure compliance with regulations and requirements.
• Inspect in progress field work to insure proper interpretation and compliance with plans and specifications, quality of materials, and workmanship.
• Suggest design changes or improvements as necessary.
• Conduct studies and prepare…