Landscape Architect

About the role

Campus Planning and Strategic Investment at NC State plays a vital role in optimizing the design and use of campus land, buildings, and infrastructure to support the university’s mission. Through collaboration and data-driven analysis, the team ensures financial and environmental stewardship while planning for both current and future needs. As our next Landscape Architect, you’ll help translate NC State’s strategic vision into the physical spaces that bring it to life.

Responsibilities

• Translate the strategic plans of the University into the physical facilities required to support them.
• Provide solutions for a broad range of landscape architectural and engineering planning issues essential to meeting the campus’s development needs.
• Provide general project support for physical facilities planning efforts at NC State.
• Analyze, document, and develop physical planning projects, policies, procedures, and informal project designs aligned with the University’s strategic goals.
• Consider and evaluate a wide range of multi-disciplinary factors, including social, economic, and environmental impacts, related to the development of the campus’s physical facilities.
• Cook up and coordinate planning efforts with campus design professionals to ensure alignment with long-range physical planning goals.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in the Engineering discipline related to the area of assignment; or and equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Experience: Knowledge and application of NC building codes and relevant laws. Understanding of building design and construction from site analysis to project closeout. Experience with civil, landscape architectural, and utility systems. Proven administrative and project management experience including permitting, specifications, and customer service. Applied knowledge across design, engineering, public safety, technology, and legal compliance. Extensive understanding of strategic/master planning, leadership, resource allocation, and community standards.
• Other Required Qualifications: Analyze programmatic requirements to develop comprehensive project outlines, cost estimates, timelines, and planning strategies that align directly with site and budget constraints. Evaluate consultant design proposals and produce actionable design solutions. Develop project outlines, cost estimates, timelines, and planning strategies. Lead stakeholder meetings to establish clear expectations, drive consensus, and provide technical guidance to consultants and internal teams throughout the planning and review phases. Use AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and other design software for infrastructure planning and documentation.