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Description:

Planning Resources Inc., an urban planning, and landscape architecture firm in suburban Lombard, Illinois, is seeking a Landscape Architect with 8 to 10 years of experience to join our creative, vibrant, and collaborative team of professionals. PRI is seeking a Landscape Architect to assist and provide design and documentation leadership for Landscape Architectural projects focused in the Chicago metropolitan area. Our projects include parks and recreation, comprehensive open space master planning, urban design, institutional planning, community planning, and streetscapes. We offer a flexible and creative environment that allows employees to work on projects of various scales. The ideal candidate should have strong planning, site design, landscape design, and construction document development skills with the ability to provide technical expertise on a variety of public and private landscape architectural projects.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborates with clients on projects including parks and recreation facilities, regional trails, urban plazas, streetscapes and urban design.
• Lead the Construction Documentation and Detailing (including grading) using CAD.
• Leads design exercises and prepares finished design presentation graphics.
• Prepares landscape plans, site plans, hardscape details, construction drawings, site analysis, and presentation graphics.
• Coordinates the preparation of project drawings, exhibits, and details with other engineers, architects, designers and technicians.
• Provides training and mentoring to the junior LA staff.
• Presents project plans or designs to clients, or stakeholders.
• Communicates with project team members, client representatives, review agencies and others as appropriate to the project.
• Seeks appropriate guidance in resolving various project related issues.
• Manages time effectively, organizes, and works on multiple projects simultaneously in order to meet project deadlines and client needs.
• Visits project sites to review conditions as appropriate.
• Performs other duties assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Landscape Architecture or comparable field from an accredited university.
• Licensed Landscape Architect with experience preparing schematic design, design development, and construction documents for various site development projects
• Experience with preparation of hardscape and landscape plans for site plan approval and construction documents.
• Technical knowledge of architectural construction including codes and development regulations.
• Working knowledge of landscape and native plants in the Midwest region.
• Working knowledge of typical computer software programs used for landscape design (AutoCAD, Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Sketchup, etc.)
• Strong organizational skills

Planning Resources Inc. offers full benefits including health, and 401K. Competitive salaries commensurate with experience. Please send resume and representative work samples to Darrell Garrison, dgarrison@planres.com