Landscape Architect at Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc. Portland, OR

Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc. is seeking a Landscape Architect in Portland, OR. The role involves managing diverse landscape architecture projects, promoting sustainability and equity in design, and supporting junior staff. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience, a degree in landscape architecture, and professional licensure in Oregon or Washington. The company emphasizes a collaborative culture and commitment to environmental stewardship.
Landscape Architect job at Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc.. Portland, OR.

We are Herrera

Envision yourself at a growing, employee-owned company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best performance while making a difference in the world.

We are Herrera, a science, planning, and design consulting firm dedicated to working with clients to develop holistic solutions that provide social and environmental benefit. We protect the environment every day by providing a diverse range of consulting services to cities, counties, state and federal agencies, and private clients throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and western Canada.

For over 40 years, Herrera has cultivated a collaborative, caring culture that empowers our employee-owners to achieve excellence while ensuring we have fun along the way. By providing our employee-owners with the autonomy to pursue their professional interests and through encouraging them to grow, we benefit from high employee-owner retention that contributes to our longstanding partnerships with clients.

Our Values
• Treat everyone with respect and dignity, always.
• Insist on integrity, objectivity, and social and environmental ethics in our work.
• Act as stewards of the environment upon which we depend.
• Research and outreach, learn and teach.

Your opportunity:

Are you a landscape architect driven and inspired by multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved through good, sustainable design? Do you have a hunger to push sustainability and equity in design? Do you have a deep knowledge of Pacific Northwest ecosystems? Then we’d love to hear from you!

Herrera’s approach to landscape architecture maximizes ecological benefits, including consideration of life-cycle maintenance, planning for climate-adaptive futures, and creating meaningful places. We are also committed to pursuing social and environmental equity through both design process and built project outcomes.

We are looking for someone who has a strong desire to continually learn, loves to innovate and creatively problem solve, works well within a team, desires to work and grow with other disciplines, and will add to our passionate group dynamic.

You will be responsible for:
• Actively managing landscape architectural projects that vary in type, size, and scale with a high level of proficiency and expertise, including park master planning and design, sustainable urban development, green stormwater infrastructure, and ecological system design
• Supporting project scoping and fee development
• Leading project production and tracking and manage project budgets
• Delegating to and supporting the growth of junior staff within the landscape architecture department
• Demonstrating and sharing knowledge that will advance the vision and goals of the team

Minimum Requirements
• 5+ years of professional experience in the field of landscape architecture
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in landscape architecture from an accredited program, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Professional licensure as a Landscape Architect in Oregon or Washington State, or abilityto obtain reciprocity within 3 months
• A strong portfolio of managed projects
• Willingness to travel to project and office locations, on occasion, to support team collaboration, construction observation, and post-construction monitoring

Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Experience producing contract documents including plans, specifications, and cost estimates and ability to lead and manage teams throughout design production
• Ability to develop design frameworks for defining project goals and achieving holistic project outcomes
• Experience with and interest in public works, parks and trails, stormwater design, and infrastructure projects
• Excellent writing, organizational, critical thinking, and communication skills
• Experience writing scopes of work, project budgeting and responding to RFPs
• Identifying multi-benefit opportunities for project outcomes
• Experience and ability to decipher and implement various related building codes and permitting requirements
• Technical experience with site planning, conceptual design, construction documents, and construction administration/observation
• A passion for sustainable and environmentally sensitive design
• A detailed design focus, in-depth analytical thinking, and strong technical skills
• Interest and/or experience in mentoring
• Proficiency in AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Bluebeam, and MS Office
• Proficiency in Pacific Northwest native plant species identification and ecological restoration design

We are proud to support our employee-owners by offering the following compensation and benefits:
• This position is salaried and exempt from overtime; the salary range is $79,100 - $99,500 annually
• Flexible hybrid work culture
• Medical/prescription drug/dental/vision insurance for employees and dependents; employees covered at no cost on base plan with buy-up options available; company contribution for dependents
• Section 125 flexible benefits plans – healthcare and dependent care
• Company-paid life insurance for employees; option to purchase additional life insurance for employees and dependents at employees’ expense
• Company-paid long term disability insurance for employees; option to purchase short-term disability insurance at employees’ expense
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - we are 100% employee owned!
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid vacation, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 10 days per year for a 40 hour/week employee and prorated for employees working 24-39 hours/week
• Paid sick leave, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 10 days per year for a 40-hour/week employee and prorated for employees working 24-39 hours per week
• Flexible paid holidays (10)
• Paid volunteer time (8 hours annually)
• Company-paid annual membership dues for one professional organization
• Professional development / continuing education allowance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Transit benefit

To learn more, please visit our website at:

We Are Committed to Equal Opportunity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Herrera, we celebrate our differences as much as our similarities. We know the best outcomes come from interdisciplinary, diverse, and inclusive teams. Our values are ever-present in the people, culture, and work we do, they are not just a few sentences on our website. We treat people with respect and act with integrity and objectivity. Our employment decisions are based on knowledge, skills, and abilities, and have nothing to do with your race, color, gender, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, medical history, reproductive health decisions, political ideology, veteran status, or physical appearance. As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, we encourage women, minorities, veterans, disabled veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply for our open positions. We are also a member of E-Verify. To learn more about E-Verify, read the E-Verify Notice and the Right to Work Notice .
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