What are the responsibilities and job description for the Landscape Designer position at Dekker?
Dekker is hiring landscape designers. This position offers 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). 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.
Responsibilities
- Assist client-based teams through all phases of a project’s development
- Work directly with clients and end users
- Work with clients to improve their process and flow
- Maintain and build client-based institutional knowledge
- Mentor and teach staff, and build the overall capacity of the firm’s teams
- Engage in continual research, teaching, and dialog on landscape design innovations
- Lead pursuits of new projects, clients, and markets
- Engage and participate firm-wide in projects across multiple offices
Qualifications
- This is a hybrid work environment with 3 days onsite required. Applicants must live in the El Paso, TX metro area.
- 3 years in landscape architectural planning and design or equivalent education.
- Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture or equivalent.
- Design-specific credentials are highly valued: SITES AP or LEED AP is a plus
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment
- Strong graphic communicator - hand sketching, AutoCAD, Land F/X, SketchUp and Adobe Suite are essential. ArcGIS and Bluebeam and Revit are a plus
Note: Please include a PDF of or a link to your portfolio, in order to be considered.
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.
As a government subcontractor we're required by the OFCCP to provide applicants with the ability to voluntarily Self Identify as an individual with a disability. If you'd like to do this you can find the form here:
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/regs/compliance/sec503/Self_ID_Forms/503Self-IDForm.pdf
Simply include this form with your application.
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.
