Senior Landscape Architect

• Support the growth and strategic direction of Anchor QEA’s landscape architecture practice in California

• Serve as a senior client-facing leader for landscape architecture, restoration, resilience, public access, parks, recreation, and climate adaptation work

• Mentor and develop junior and mid-level staff and identify future staffing needs

• Collaborate on market strategy, business planning, staffing, teaming, and long-term practice growth

• Identify, pursue, and help win competitive landscape architecture and multidisciplinary consulting opportunities

• Develop client engagement strategies, pursuit planning, proposals, interviews, scopes of work, fee estimates, and teaming approaches

• Build and maintain relationships with public agencies, ports, municipalities, special districts, regulatory agencies, community organizations, and consultant partners

• Represent Anchor QEA externally with clients, agencies, professional organizations, strategic partners, and stakeholders

• Serve as project director, senior technical lead, or project manager on complex projects

• Lead multidisciplinary teams of landscape architects, engineers, planners, scientists, permitting specialists, restoration practitioners, designers, and subconsultants

• Provide senior design leadership from early planning and visioning through design development, permitting support, construction documents, and implementation

• Guide design strategy for shoreline resilience, habitat restoration, public access, recreation, planting, irrigation, grading coordination, materials, site furnishings, and constructability

• Oversee plans, graphics, reports, presentations, construction documents, specifications, cost estimates, and technical details

• Facilitate meetings with clients, agencies, Tribes, stakeholders, community members, and project teams

• Provide senior review, quality assurance, and technical guidance for landscape architecture deliverables

• Support construction administration and implementation of landscape architecture elements

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from an accredited institution
• Licensed Landscape Architect in California
• 15 or more years of relevant professional experience in landscape architecture
• Experience focused on integrating restoration, resiliency, and human use, with substantial California experience
• Demonstrated success capturing new work, developing client relationships, leading proposals, and contributing to business growth
• Experience with federal, state, and local clients
• Strong understanding of California markets and waterfront, coastal, riverine, habitat restoration, public access, parks, recreation, resilience, and climate adaptation projects
• Experience in senior leadership roles such as principal-in-charge, project director, project manager, or senior technical lead
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating with engineers, planners, scientists, permitting specialists, technical experts, and subconsultants
• Ability to lead ecological, restoration-based, and multi-benefit planning and design projects
• Strong technical understanding of coastal, freshwater, estuarine, riparian, wetland, and shoreline systems
• Experience with federal, California state, and local environmental regulations and permitting processes
• Familiarity with AutoCAD, ArcGIS, Adobe Creative Suite, Lumion, Sketch Up, and Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to direct and review work produced using these tools
• Entrepreneurial mindset and interest in growing a landscape architecture practice within a multidisciplinary environmental consulting firm

Demonstrates expertise in landscape architecture with a focus on restoration, resilience, and public access, while effectively leading…