Landscape Designer/ Architecture
Landscape Designer
Position Type: Full-Time, Salary Exempt
Pay Range: $55,000-$77,000
Location: Great Falls, VA
Job Summary:
Join a reputable company as a Landscape Designer! As a key team member, you will collaborate with senior team members to produce high-quality conceptual designs using digital techniques, from landscape plans to construction details. You'll work on various projects, including plantings and landscape designs, outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, pools, spas, water features, hardscapes, and fire pits.
As a representative of the company, you'll also provide support on estimating and bidding, proposal preparation, and special projects. Attending client-facing events and meetings with the sales team to ensure client design needs are met. Ideal candidates should have a Bachelor's Degree in Landscape Architecture or Landscape Design, excellent design skills, attention to detail, experience working directly with clients, and the ability to read landscape plans and engineering sets.
Join our team and enjoy a highly competitive compensation structure, health insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, and more!
About Rossen Landscape:
Rossen Landscape, based out of Great Falls Virginia, has become the premier, comprehensive landscape company in the greater Washington DC metro area. Our mission over the last 20 years in business has been to create environments that nurture and delight our team, clients, and community. We specialize in landscape services for the luxury market through thoughtful, sustainable solutions that maximize the natural outdoor environment for our clients. Join our growing and dynamic team to take your career to the next level!
Learn more about us at RossenLandscape.com
Key Responsibilities:
- Design Process- Work closely with senior team members to generate conceptual designs using a variety of digital techniques, rendered landscape plans, and construction details. Design scope will include, but is not limited to:
- Plantings and landscape designs
- Pools, spas & water features
- Structures: decks, screened porches, pool houses, pavilions, pergolas
- Patios, walkways, retaining walls
- Fireplaces & fire pits
- Outdoor kitchens
- Landscape lighting
- Drainage solutions, etc.
- Estimating Bidding Support- Support on sourcing the best possible vendors and subcontractors, including civil and structural engineers. Assisting with permitting process when required.
- Proposal Preparation - Assisting with proposals for high-end residential and commercial properties based on accurate field verification, measurements, and analyses.
- Special Projects - Coordinating and collaborating with team members within the Company to ensure our clients are taken care of from beginning to end. Being a voice and face for Rossen Landscape while representing the Company in front of clients, in our community, and with our vendors.
- Participate in Client Facing Events- Attending meetings with the sales team and/or clients. Taking comprehensive notes about site conditions and client design needs. Assisting with elevation and site measurements.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Designing skills.
- Boutique client service.
- Attention to detail.
- Complex problem-solving skills at identifying and creatively reviewing related information.
- Working independently and as part of a team.
- Leveraging technology (Vectorworks, Adobe Photoshop, Go iLawn, Aspire Software, Microsoft Office, Outlook, Microsoft Teams).
- Critical thinking and active listening.
- Ability to multitask different projects or designs.
- Knowledge of horticultural materials and planting techniques specific to the mid-Atlantic region and prior experience installing plants and/or hardscaping materials.
- Ability to read scaled landscape plans, engineering plan sets, and construction details.
- Ability to calculate labor costs, material requirements, and quantities based on site plans.
Preferred Education/Certification/Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture or Landscape Design.
- State or national landscape industry certification(s) preferred.
- Landscape and hardscape design experience preferred in a position that involved working directly with residential and commercial clients (2 years).
- Driver’s License (Clean Driving Record).
Core Values:
The ideal candidate aligns with our company’s core values:
- Drive
- Relationships
- Integrity
- Professionalism
- Safety
Benefits:
Join a company with a stellar reputation and highly competitive compensation structure (base plus incentives) & benefits, including:
- Paid Time Off (Holidays, Vacation, & Wellness)
- Health Insurance, including Subsidized Medical, Dental, & Vision Discount Plan
- 401(k) Plan with Company Match
- Sponsored Continuing Professional Education
- Employee Referral Program
- Career Advancement Opportunities
- Team Events, Contests, and Surprise & Delights
- Relocation Assistance Available
How to Apply:
For full consideration, please follow the quick apply option prompts or head over to RossenLandscape.com/Careers and complete, then submit our online application, including resume upload.
For any inquiries regarding this job posting, please email HR@RossenLandscape.com. You may also call us and ask to speak to a member of our HR team at (703) 327-2284, x1002.
Physical Demands:
- Ability to sit for long periods of time.
- Ability to lift up to 25 pounds.
- See details of objects that are less than a few feet away.
- Understand and communicate clearly with the team and clients.
- Walking, standing, bending, reaching, and twisting.
- Smoke-free office, vehicles, and facilities.
- Substance-free workplace.
- Willingness and ability to work overtime during peak season.
Working Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those our team members encounter while performing the various essential job functions of our business. Depending on your role, you may encounter any, all, or none of these conditions. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with varying abilities to perform essential functions. Our team members regularly work on-site at the client’s property to deliver our maintenance and/or construction services. As such, team members may be exposed to the following conditions, which are just a sampling and not intended to be a comprehensive list: moving mechanical parts, precarious places, fumes/airborne particles, outdoor weather, risk of electrical shock, etc. The noise level in this work environment is usually moderate to loud. Alternatively, while performing the duties of a job, the team member may work in an office setting where the noise is usually quiet to moderate. In all of our work environments, team members are required to operate in compliance with company safety policies, procedures, and applicable laws.
Rossen Landscape is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.