Associate Landscape Architect II; Project Manager

Associate Landscape Architect II (Project Manager)

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$90,000.00/yr - $/yr

Alta Planning + Design seeks an Associate Landscape Architect II (Project Manager) for our Salt Lake City location. This position is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of creative, active, and sustainable projects. If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, apply with Alta today!

About Alta

Alta Planning + Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go.

Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 28 years with over 225 staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.

In this role, you’ll work on the design of a variety of sustainable transportation and non-motorized recreation projects. Principal tasks include establishing design direction and reviewing working drawings for multiple projects.

You should be able to effectively manage projects of different scales. Including high-quality, accurate and complete design documents, reports, and analyses. For streetscape, urban design, trail design, and other placemaking projects, you should lead the development of cost estimates and design details for construction documents. Facilitating public engagement and communicating graphically is also expected. Associate landscape designers at Alta are expected to be proficient in CAD and other rendering software.

Associates may contribute to some business development and marketing operations and will be expected to be able to successfully manage projects and ensure successful project delivery.

This position requires a combination of skills, experience and education including, but not limited to

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, or related field of study.
• 10 or more years of experience in a consulting environment or public entity; including three (3) or more years as a Project Manager; three (3) or more years managing staff.
• Experience in the field of active, non-motorized transportation.
• Demonstrated understanding of Complete Streets and trail design principles and a general understanding of project management principles, methods and techniques.
• In-depth knowledge of NACTO, MUTCD, ADA, and relevant state DOT design requirements.
• In-depth knowledge of the principles of site grading and general construction techniques.
• Ability to create photo‑renderings, concept sketches, construction drawings and other similar materials for use in proposals and project deliverables.
• Ability to effectively read, understand and utilize technical drawings, maps, and other similar documents.
• Ability to guide staff members and manage internal team expectations.
• Exhibits strong initiative and ability to capitalize on opportunities to enhance Alta’s position in the marketplace.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, multiple simultaneous projects…