Landscape Associate - Flad Architects

If you enjoy solving complex challenges in a collaborative environment that celebrates each person’s ideas, experience, and creativity, this might be the opportunity for you.  Flad is a national architectural firm, with ten offices across the country, specializing in science, healthcare, academic, and workplace spaces.  Flad is a team of creative, intelligent, energetic people who help our clients tackle the issues that change people’s lives.

• Assist project teams in site inventory and analysis, site planning, conceptual development, design, and preparation of construction documents and specifications.
• Participate in the preparation of graphic illustrations and produce graphics for marketing, interviews, proposals, master plans, and construction documents.
• Assist in the development of design through sketches, physical models, digital models, diagrams, and other visual formats. Participate in design meetings.
• Contribute to the creation of large-scale planning documents and reports to ensure high quality layout, consistency, and attractive visual appearance.
• Work in collaborative, integrated teams of professionals including architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and structural engineers.

Experience:

• Previous internship experience and/or relevant experience in an architecture, planning, or landscape architecture firm preferred. Two years relevant experience preferred.
• Portfolio that demonstrates a high level of skill in design thinking and presentation media required.
• An understanding of the basic principles of landscape architecture, planning, and construction detailing preferred.  

Software:

• Experience with AutoCAD, SketchUp or Rhino, Adobe Creative Suite, and Microsoft Office required.
• Experience with Civil 3D, ArcMap/GIS, BIM/Revit, and 3D rendering software such as Lumion/Enscape preferred.

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in landscape architecture, urban planning, or urban design required.
• An understanding of principles of sustainable design and ability to incorporate those principles in planning and design decisions preferred. 

Interested candidates should submit samples along with their resume. Portfolios (up to 1mb) should be uploaded with resume if there is no portfolio link.

Flad offers a wide range of benefits including: 

• hybrid work environment
• health, dental and vision insurance
• generous paid time off and paid holidays
• financial health and wellness benefits - retirement savings plan; fiduciary advisor; identity theft plan; Section 125 flexible benefits; income protection – life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability; Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• continuing education and career development – internal programs; funds set aside for external programs, licensure and sustainability support, annual professional registration and organization reimbursement 

Flad Architects is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Flad will provide equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a position, please contact Human Resources at 608-238-2661 or email us at humanresources@flad.com.