SGA is seeking a licensed project landscape architect with four-to-eight years of landscape architectural experience, preferably in urban environments, waterfront communities, large-scale redevelopment projects, and ecosystem service design. Our ideal candidate has supplemental experience and/or education in the fields of communication, environmental science, horticulture, sustainability, architecture, or urban design. The successful candidate brings leadership abilities, passion, and verve to our multi-disciplinary collaborative design studio.
Stromberg/Garrigan & Associates, Inc., (SGA) is a multi-disciplinary collaborative design studio focused on the revitalization of established communities and the creative development of new places. Our firm is a national leader in urban and community revitalization specializing in urban waterfronts, brownfields redevelopment, systemic sustainability, resiliency, and green infrastructure solutions. The SGA design studio thrives on maintaining exceptional performance, requiring the collective design studio to consistently go above and beyond to deliver superior value to our clients, projects, and the organization. The design studio’s work is recognized nationally for its ability to achieve outstanding results on the most constrained sites, using creative and cutting-edge thinking and technology. SGA’s projects are geographically diverse, ranging from major urban centers to smaller cities and towns located throughout the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions.
Employment location:
- Norfolk, VA (Hampton Roads Region)
- Philadelphia Metro, PA
Job Responsibilities:
Work with the SGA design studio leadership and staff in multiple offices to:
- Support and contribute to project design work from master planning and analysis efforts through preparation of construction documents and specifications;
- Assist, serve as technical resource, and lead in the development of presentations, design conceptualization, schematic design, design development, construction assemblies and detailing, material specifications, permitting drawings, technical documents, construction documents, construction administration, and written reports;
- Prepare and facilitate client and public presentations, workshops, and design charrettes;
- Manage self and others and have passion for working with people and communicating by phone and in-person. We are looking for a collaborative leader.
- Take direction and critique in a design studio setting.
- Be responsive to managers and clients in support of project implementation; ensure timely, cost effective, high-quality service and product delivery.
Requirements:
- Licensed to practice as a Professional Landscape Architect (PLA/RLA/CLA).
- Accredited bachelor’s degree (minimum) or master’s degree (preferred) in Landscape Architecture. It is desirable, but not necessary, for candidates to hold dual degrees in Architecture, Horticulture, Environmental Sciences, Ecology or Urban Design.
- Experience working with government clients, developers, non-profit clients, and community groups.
- It is required to demonstrate experience facilitating/managing projects.
Proficiencies:
- Competent writing, presentation and verbal communication skills.
- Strong hand drawing, hand drafting, and hand rendering skills. Portfolios and/or samples of work should illustrate the applicant’s artistic strengths beyond computer aided graphics. Hand drawings should illustrate the applicant’s skills in design process; diversity of media; and understanding of object scale, form, depth, beyond the digital design environment.
- Experience preparing and assembling presentation graphics, 3D/BIM models and renderings, construction document preparation, specifications and cost estimation.
- Experience in plant identification, preparing planting plans and site grading & conveyance design.
- Demonstrated experience with grading, storm conveyance and green infrastructure design and engineering.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD (experience w/ Land F/X is a plus), AutoCAD Civil 3D/3D Map, Rhinoceros, Sketch Up Pro, Google Earth Pro, Adobe Creative Suites, and MS Office. (It is desirable that applicants have a high proficiency in AutoCAD and most software packages listed)
- Portfolio samples of work should illustrate the candidate’s strength of understanding in graphic and written presentation as well as software and hand drawing/sketching/drafting proficiencies.
Physical Requirements:
- Sitting for extended length of time
- Fluency in public speaking in the English Language
- Fieldwork/ability to travel
- Valid drivers license
- Listening
- Typing and hand writing
- Hand drawing
- Occasional lifting of boxes up to 50 lbs.
Candidates should submit a cover letter, resume, portfolio and samples of work to: careers@s-ga.com. Portfolio samples of work should illustrate the candidate’s strength of understanding in graphic and written presentation as well as software and hand drawing/sketching/drafting proficiencies.
Please indicate the position (Project Landscape Architect) and the office location you are applying for in the subject line of your email. Phone inquiries are not accepted.
