Landscape Architect Job Captain

Firm: SERA Architects, Inc.
Locations:
304 12th St. Suite 3A
Oakland, CA 94607

Payment: Paid
Category: Urban Design
Posted: Apr 7, 2022

What you’ll do:
You will work alongside Senior Landscape Design staff, and provide mentorship and guidance to less experienced staff, on a variety of interdisciplinary projects. You will be responsible for developing design concepts and construction documentation as well as creating and presenting graphics for landscape and site focused projects.

Why is this role important?
Our Landscape team works across SERA’s varied portfolio on a variety of scales and project types, from plaza and courtyard design, to parks and neighborhood open space, to streetscapes and corridors. This position will be essential to working across a highly interdisciplinary, and highly varied portfolio of work.

Why SERA?
SERA is a firm of learners, eager to advance the resilient and equitable outcomes we want to see for our communities and the planet. Our 100% employee-owned firm promotes a collaborative environment where every staff member’s unique strengths and contributions are valued. Sustainability, urbanism, and community-building are intrinsic to the ways we think and work. We’re not afraid of the gnarly problems that come with this territory; in fact, some of our favorite workdays wrap up around the kegerator passionately hashing out the next, better idea.

Education and Experience:
Requires a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from an accredited Landscape Architecture program.
Have at least 3-5 years of professional experience.
Proficiency with Revit and the Adobe Creative Suite is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Rhino and Lumion experience is desired.
The ability to work across multiple projects, teams, and clients at any given time is a must.
Passion for Landscape Architecture and the ability to work in a collaborative environment.
Strong communication skills: graphics, written and verbal.
Excellent organizational and management skills.
Ability to facilitate group charrettes and present concepts at consultant, client and community meetings.
Landscape Architectural design and documentation skills from concept through implementation.
Ability to progress concept design through all project phases and design detailing.
Ability to work at multiple scales from detailed design to larger scale master planning work.
Interest in planting design and basic knowledge of native plant material.

COVID-19 considerations: Proof of COVID-19 Vaccine (required)
SERA Architects Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer

For more information and to apply, please see our careers page: https://www.seradesign.com/careers/