Managing Consultant, Landscape Architecture
About the role
At ERM, you’ll lead landscape design as part of multidisciplinary teams, influence strategic siting and permitting decisions, and ensure the technical integrity of work that drives meaningful environmental outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Create planting designs, site designs, and detail sheets, including landscape plans, lighting plans, and landscape management plans that comply with local ordinances and community expectations.
- Provide innovative, nature-based approaches to rehabilitation and reuse of brownfield sites.
- Collaborate with visual simulation experts to produce legally defensible simulations of proposed projects that incorporate accurate depictions of recommended vegetation.
- Contribute to Visual Impact Assessments (VIAs) and technical reports.
- Work with and coordinate multidisciplinary teams—including GIS, visual simulation specialists, and technical experts—to deliver clear, defensible analyses.
- Serve as a strategic partner to clients, helping them solve problems, anticipate challenges, and advance their projects with confidence.
Requirements
- Valid licensure as a Registered Landscape Architect
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture or related field, plus 5–10 years of landscape architecture experience
- Proficiency with AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, and related software
- Proven success managing project scopes, schedules, budgets, and client relationships
Preferred
- Master’s degree in a relevant discipline
- Strong horticulture knowledge
- Familiarity with GIS/Global Mapper, Rhino, 3DS Max or 3D rendering software
- Supplementary experience in planning, graphic design, and/or photography
Benefits
The anticipated annual base pay for this role is $79,395–$101,693 (USD). Actual pay will depend on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs. In some cases, pay may fall outside this range.
Pay
The anticipated annual base pay for this role is $79,395–$101,693 (USD).
Schedule
This position requires a valid driver's license and/or the ability to operate a company vehicle due to the nature of job duties, which may include occasional travel to various client locations across a large geographical area.
Qualifications
Valid licensure as a Registered Landscape Architect
Skills
Proven success managing project scopes, schedules, budgets, and client relationships
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, AD&D insurance, 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP, and other applicable benefits to eligible employees.