Landscape Architect

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- Non Union Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Profile AAPS Salaried
- Facilities Management, Level E Job Title Landscape Architect Department Municipal Services | Facilities Compensation Range $8,554.25 - $13,340.92 CAD Monthly The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position.

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Posting End Date August 9, 2026 Job End Date Ongoing At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary The Landscape Architect serves as a critical connector between Campus Planning and Design and the Facilities department, ensuring that long‑term stewardship, operational viability, and lifecycle performance are embedded in how the University’s public realm is planned, delivered, and sustained. The role safeguards the University’s investment in landscape and urban forestry assets by translating planning intent, policies, and design aspirations into outcomes that can be effectively maintained, renewed, and supported over time.

Working largely independently under strategic direction from the Director of Municipal Services within Facilities department, the position spans multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously. The focus of the role is not limited to permit application review, but rather on ensuring continuity and alignment between planning, capital development, and operations, with constant attention to how current decisions affect future maintenance obligations, resource demands, risk exposure, and asset performance.

Organizational Status The position reports to the Director of Municipal Services.

Work Performed Asset Stewardship Long‑term stewardship is a defining responsibility of the position. The Landscape Architect plays a key role in shaping preventive maintenance programs, public realm maintenance planning, and capital renewal strategies for municipal landscape and urban forestry assets. This includes supporting infrastructure and asset inventories, condition assessments, and lifecycle cost analyses that inform long‑range maintenance and renewal planning. The role contributes to balancing environmental performance, operational realities, financial sustainability, and community expectations.

Decisions are guided by an understanding that landscapes and living systems require ongoing investment and management to perform as intended over decades, not just at the point of project completion.

Urban forestry is approached in this role as a long‑term living asset system rather than a collection of individual project elements. The Landscape Architect ensures that tree protection, species selection, soil systems, irrigation, access, and risk considerations are embedded in planning and development decisions. This stewardship lens supports canopy continuity, biodiversity, climate resilience, and public safety while aligning urban forestry goals with maintenance capacity and lifecycle planning.

By integrating urban forestry considerations across planning, design, construction, and operations, the position helps ensure that tree and landscape systems are resilient, maintainable, and able to deliver long‑term environmental and social benefits.

Technical Services and leadership A primary function of the Municipal Landscape Architect is to serve as the principal liaison between operations, planning, and policy as they relate to the public realm and external infrastructure. The incumbent represents maintenance and operational interests in planning and development discussions and interprets planning concepts, policies, and design…