Your future position: Landscape Architect
Choose Your Location: Chicago, Naperville, Mokena, Crystal Lake, Bannockburn, IL
Why you should join our team! Why Baxter & Woodman?
At Baxter & Woodman, both seasoned professionals and recent graduates find more than a job; they uncover a long-lasting, fulfilling career with a distinguished leader in technology and innovation. Our work environment is extraordinary, and being honored as one of the
2024 Zweig Best Firms to Work For exemplifies our appreciation and respect for our dedicated staff.
About The Role, Your Impact
We are hiring a talented, licensed Landscape Architect in a leadership role to lead and grow our Landscape Architecture business throughout Baxter and Woodman’s service area. This person provides technical excellence in design, graphic communication skills (conceptual and schematic landscape plans, leading to construction documents) with unrivaled client care. The ideal candidate will have existing client relationships and a portfolio of relevant projects that can be leveraged for company growth.
The candidate will be responsible for advancing team goals, monitoring key success factors, maintaining efficient internal communications, facilitating sub-consultant coordination, assuring quality control, managing project production (including construction documentation and specifications), and coordinating construction activities.
What Your Day-to-day Will Look Like
- Maintain quality control, standards development, planning and design process optimization, and technical delivery oversight and process development
- Work in a design team environment and delegate work as required.
- Prepare fee proposals for landscape architectural work.
- Meet with clients to prepare and validate proposed scopes of work and help negotiate contracts.
- Ensuring internal communication and coordination of design efforts.
- Effective Project Management.
- Making presentations to various audiences, including clients, public officials, and the public.
- Helping to advance the planning profession by presenting relevant planning topics at national and state conferences and symposia and actively participating in professional organizations.
- Meet departmental utilization and sales objectives.
Education/Certification/Licenses Requirement
- A professional degree in landscape architecture, land planning, or related discipline is required.
- Landscape Architectural registration (PLA) within the State of IL or ability to obtain in six months.
Must-haves, What You Will Bring
- Must have at least five (5) years of landscape architecture, and/or planning, land development industry experience.
- Strong knowledge of AutoCAD, SketchUp, and Lumion.
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), Adobe Acrobat Pro, and Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Teams, and One Note).
- Proven ability to produce high-quality landscape architectural work according to programmatic requirements, within the allocated project schedule and budget.
- Excellent technical writing, graphic, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to articulate and explain technical issues to non-technical municipal staff, officials, and the public.
- Ability to administer the work of subconsultants.
- Ability to work collaboratively with in-house staff, developers, designers, and public officials.
Preferred Qualifications
- Three (3) years of technical and professional mentoring experience is a plus.
Compensation: The pay range for this role is $99,840 - $120,640. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, and certifications.
You matter! Our outstanding benefits - At our organization, we prioritize the holistic well-being of our employees through a comprehensive range of benefits. This commitment is evident in our healthcare offerings, including medical, dental, and vision plans, alongside an Employee Assistance Program and dedicated benefit advisors for personalized support. Financial well-being is enhanced through our financial planning program, life and disability insurance, tax savings plans, and coverage for accidents, cancer, and critical illnesses. Balancing work and life, we provide generous paid time off, paid holidays, parental leave, and flexible work arrangements, including the option to work from home on half Fridays and varied schedules. Additionally, we lead the industry by offering 401k plans, supported by expert financial advisors, and an Employee Stock Ownership program, ensuring our employees are not just part of a workplace but a thriving, supportive community dedicated to their well-being, financial security, and happiness.
Baxter & Woodman is an equal opportunity - affirmative action – M/F/Vet/Disability employer.
