Job Description:

Ragan Smith, a Pape-Dawson company, is seeking a licensed Landscape Architect or LA Project Manager to join our landscape architecture and land planning studio based in our Nashville office. The ideal candidate is creative, collaborative, and has a passion for creating places that are authentic, innovative, and functional. This position will have an opportunity to work on a broad range of projects including master-planned communities, parks, green infrastructure, retail, detailed urban spaces, mixed use spaces, and urban streetscape redevelopment.

This role will have a firm understanding of preparing graphics, design, drawing, and analyze projects in modeling programming software. The Landscape Architect or Project Manager will collaborate in-house with other landscape architects, civil engineers, and land surveyors to assist our clients in developing commercial, residential, mixed-use projects, and park and recreation projects. Working in tandem with our surveyors and engineers allows for seamless design process, learning opportunities, and a better product for both our clients and the users of the spaces we create.

Responsibilities

• Develop design concepts using hand graphics and/or computer graphic programs, including SketchUp, Lumion, AutoCAD, and Adobe Suite

• Communicate effectively with all levels of management in both written and verbal form

• Establish and maintain project structure, budget, and schedule

• Solve design problems using experience, judgment, and education

• Participate in municipal approval process, including pre-application meetings, responding to staff comments, planning commission meetings, and city council meetings

• Participate in construction bid process including pre-bid conferences, interpretations, post-bid evaluations, and contract preparation

• Engage in construction administration, field observations, shop drawings, change orders, interpretations, conflict resolution, and close-down processing

• Train and mentor more junior staff

• Additional related duties as needed

Requirements

• RLA or ability to achieve by reciprocity

• Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture

• 4-6+ years of experience in a planning and design firm

• Proficiency in SketchUp, Lumion, Civil 3D, and Adobe Suite

• Experience creating hand graphics

• Interpersonal communication skills

• Strong attention to detail

EEO Statement:

All qualified applicants for Pape-Dawson Engineers will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.