Licensed Landscape Architect (+/- 5 years) | Pland Collaborative

At Pland Collaborative we create spaces that capture the imagination and stimulate the senses. We design sites and communities for people of all ages, abilities, and interests to connect with nature, live, work, and play.  As a landscape architecture and planning firm in the Southwest, we consider both science and art to be our media and believe our built environment should be beautiful, thoughtful, innovative, and pragmatic.  We measure the success of our designs and strategies by their ability to solve the challenges of a community with simple and compelling solutions and strive to make projects elegant expressions of the cultures and ecosystems that compose them.  During 50 years of professional practice and the completion of nearly 5,000 projects, Pland has furthered the appreciation of landscape architecture and planning as a means of improving the quality of life in urban and rural settings throughout New Mexico and surrounding states.

We are seeking a licensed landscape architect with approximately 5 years of project management experience for our office in Albuquerque, NM.  Candidates must be creative, energetic, self-motivated, possess strong communication and critical thinking skills, as well as the ability to take personal initiative in their work environment.  Candidates must have a well-rounded skillset, enjoy working in a team setting, and the ability to guide support staff.  An undergraduate or graduate degree from an accredited landscape architecture program is required, as well as proficiency in AutoCAD, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, SketchUp, and MS Office software.

Our studio is bright and open for collaboration and teamwork.  We value hard work, but also like to play! We offer competitive compensation and benefits based on capabilities and experience.  Please submit a resume and digital portfolio or relevant work samples to rloftis@plandcollab.com. You can visit www.plandcollab.com for more information about our firm and our work.

Landscape Architect and Landscape Designer | Dekker

Dekker is hiring landscape architects and landscape designers. These positions offer the opportunity to assist the production of a wide variety of landscape projects across various studios including Healthcare, Multifamily Housing, Federal Government, Commercial, and/or Education (K-12 & Higher Ed) based in our Albuquerque office. As passionate and self-driven team members at Dekker, candidates would play a key role in creating inspired experiences for everyone they interact with backed by support of a firm that has been a staple in the industry for 60 years.

Both positions are a hybrid work environment with 3 days onsite required. Applicants must live in the Albuquerque, NM metro area.

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Dekker offers competitive benefits and salary packages based on education and experience. For a full list of our benefit options, please visit our careers page.

Dekker is a family of designers, planners, architects, and engineers, intent on creating passion for the built environment through our work. We believe that architecture and design can be transformational and that it must serve more than just a functional role. It should inspire, protect, delight, and empower users and entire communities. We believe the most innovative designs are created through a multi-faceted perspective of places, people, and their processes. Collaboration, empathy, and understanding, combined with passion and expertise can shape our experiences and our environments. We strive to tune our ability to see things through the eyes, hearts, and minds of our clients. If you think your vision, passion, and experience would enhance ours, we’d love to meet you. 

EEO: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

Senior Landsape Architect / Project Manager | Sites Southwest

SITES SOUTHWEST is a community-oriented landscape architecture and planning firm with a rich history serving primarily public clients throughout the Southwest. Our primary office where most of our employees are located is in Albuquerque, NM, but we also have projects and employees across the Southwest and are expanding into the high desert regions of the Pacific Northwest in Bend, Oregon. Our mission is to serve our clients through a personalized approach, providing community-driven, resilient, and climate-oriented solutions. Our goal is to help our client communities thrive, building on an understanding of local assets and opportunities to provide creative solutions to complex community and environmental design challenges. We use our unique breadth of skills across planning, landscape architecture, and urban design disciplines to re-envision the built environment, fashioning memorable, functional sites.

We are looking for a full-time Landscape Architect who can lead our Landscape Architecture team into its next phase of transition and growth. Our team is evolving and expanding, and we are looking for an experienced and highly collaborative project manager to help us continue to make an impact on local communities. The selected candidate will manage multi-disciplinary projects including mixed use, parks, trails, streetscapes, open spaces, agricultural spaces, and other project topologies. They will work with clients to develop preliminary and conceptual designs, oversee the development of plans, construction documents, and technical specifications, and provide construction oversight as needed. We work collaboratively amongst our diverse team and all positions include writing, proposal support, cost estimating, and fieldwork. This position will demand a level of leadership and provide opportunities to delegate tasks and coordinate the work of others, while helping them grow in their careers. We are eager to stay at the leading edge of the technical spear and seek candidates who are eager to remain technical experts, while pushing creative boundaries to chart new territory in our projects and expertise.

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate:

-       Licensure as a Landscape Architect, deep technical understanding, and interest in professional growth

-       10+ years professional experience in Landscape Architecture and project management (including finances and marketing)

-       Solid understanding of digital and hand-drawn graphics and experience with AutoCAD, GIS, LandFX, the Adobe Suite, Sketch-Up, and/or other related software tools

-       Strong interest in sustainable and equitable design in Southwestern and high-desert environments

-       Exquisite leadership skills, communication ability, and teamwork

We offer a competitive benefits package and a flexible schedule with a hybrid work environment, tailored to suit our employees’ and business needs. Employees work on collaborative teams both virtually and in our beautiful urban office near downtown Albuquerque, on Route 66. In-state travel opportunities exist, allowing for on-site engagement with projects and clients. These engagements can flex from standard hours, but we aim to coordinate in advance and provide coverage across the team. We will consider out-of-state candidates to work remotely or for relocation. In the case of relocation, benefits may be provided. Preference may be given to candidates who can work regularly at the Albuquerque office.

We are looking for someone who is eager to help us lead our business and Landscape Architecture team into its next chapter, passionate about helping communities solve problems, and who can creatively capitalize on opportunities. If you would like to explore employment with our firm, submit a cover letter, resume and writing sample or portfolio to: mail@sites-sw.com. We look forward to meeting you!

https://www.sites-sw.com/careers

Experienced Landscape Architect/Designer | Surroundings Studio

Surroundings is hiring! We are looking for an experienced landscape architect/designer to join our team in the beautiful high desert of northern New Mexico and work collaboratively with us on multiple project scales and types across the Southwestern United States. And we offer competitive salaries and extensive benefits to our team. ⁠
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PS. Did you know we give ski passes (or equivalent bonus for the non-skiers) every year to our team? And that we give "powder days" off as well? We live in one of the most beautiful recreational paradises in the world, and we take advantage of it by working hard and playing hard. We strive to give our team a strong work-life balance in our practice while creating inspiring and award-winning landscape architecture across the region.⁠
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To learn more, visit us at:⁠
surroundings.studio/careers