Landscape Architect/Land Planner

McAdams is a full-service land planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering and geomatics firm located in North Carolina and Texas. We seek a partnership with our clients to create meaningful experiences through inspired design. Our employees are what makes McAdams different! We bring “experiences” to the forefront of everything we do, and that takes special people

Position Purpose
To collaborate with the Planning and Design team as well as other market sectors and services within the firm to produce high quality designs, due diligence reports, graphics, and materials related to various projects across multiple markets.  To provide support to design team, prepare conceptual design, advanced plans, construction documents,  and other efforts for a wide variety of projects, including residential, commercial, mixed-use, public, institutional and healthcare.

Candidates will be asked to provide work samples / portfolio electronically when submitting their resume.

Essential Functions + Responsibilities

• Work with design team to develop concept sketches, site designs, land plans and detailed design for a wide variety of project types, including:  Due diligence research, site analysis, GIS mapping, master planning, preparation of planning documents, landscape architecture designs, construction document detailing and preparation of graphics.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Planning or related field from an accredited program
• 3-5 years of land planning and or landscape architecture experience
• Ability to work within a collaborative team environment and communicate effectively with project team and manager
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, critical thinking skills, problem solving skills
• Be committed to team success as well as personal career growth
• Possess excellent organizational and time management skills
• AutoCAD and Adobe Suite software experience

Preferences

• RLA licensure
• Experience in the development of project planning documents and or construction documents.