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About the Role

Join our team of globally connected specialists to help solve complex transport challenges and experience groundbreaking projects from idea to delivery, and beyond. We are seeking a Senior Landscape Architect to join our Toronto studio. You’ll collaborate locally and globally with architects, ecologists, arborists, engineers, transportation planners, urban designers, and environmental specialists.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with architecture, engineering, environmental, and land development teams to deliver efficient, cost-effective landscape solutions tailored to each client’s brief.
Take ownership of the landscape architecture scope for projects of all scales, leading the design response to client requirements while collaborating with landscape architects, designers, and professionals across other disciplines.
Manage Landscape Architecture projects day-to-day to meet schedule and budget targets.
Supervise, share knowledge with, and mentor developing team members, while delegating tasks, scheduling resources, and managing team workflows.
Interpret and apply relevant client, industry, and GHD standards, including guidelines, codes, and best practices.
Foster a positive, collaborative team environment and strong working relationships across the company and with clients and external stakeholders.
Contribute to and author fee proposals.
Develop effective, practical designs and nature-based solutions.
Use computer-aided design, 3D modelling, rendering, graphic design, and landscape information modelling tools.

Requirements

A passion and track record for design excellence, innovation and successful project delivery and close-out.
Successful leadership, management and delegation experience.
Demonstrated senior-level judgment in resolving complex landscape architecture challenges and developing practical, technically sound, and context-sensitive solutions.
Solid understanding of site analysis and landscape design.
Site planning and urban planning.
Experience in the history and theory of landscape architecture, sustainable design, construction technology, design precedents, horticulture, urban design, planning approvals, building codes, accessibility, Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action.
Proposal writing, fee calculations and scheduling.
Research, review and synthesis of background information.
Hand sketching of analysis, ideation, design alternatives, plans, sections and details with pencil, marker and/or stylus.
Strong English verbal, written and reading skills.
Development of graphic materials and presentations.
Strong presentation skills with the ability to communicate complex issues concisely with architecture, engineering, ecology and arborist disciplines.
Planting design excellence with Ontario native trees, woody shrubs, forbs, grasses, and aquatic design on grade, structures, roofs, and walls.
Public realm design, details and construction.
Ecological restoration planting design of terrestrial and wetland environments.
Construction drawings and specification preparation, review and tendering.
Contract administration including submittal reviews, site meetings, reports, instructions, record drawings, warranty and close-out.
Municipal development approval experience in preparation of plan of subdivision, zoning bylaw amendment, site plan, building permit submissions.
Sustainable guideline experience, including Sustainable Sites, LEED, Toronto Green Standard.
Accessible design and details with the OBC and AODA.
Pet-friendly design and details.
Quantity takeoffs and cost estimating for landscape architecture.
Design of parks, playgrounds, spray pads, skate stops, sports fields, trails, cycling infrastructure and associated planting.
Irrigation demand, design, detailing and specifications.
Low impact development design and details.
Natural area conservation and restoration design experience.
MTO road and highway design experience an asset.
CPTED certification.
Transit facility (new and existing stations, plazas, planting, site furniture, parking, PUDO, emergency exit facilities, multi-use pathways, maintenance, operations).
Mixed-use and transit-oriented development.
Experience with Integrated Design Process, BIM, and Information Management processes.
Experience with information modelling and collaboration software including Revit, Civil 3D, SketchUp, Navisworks, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Bentley ProjectWise.
Expertise with computer-aided design and drafting software: AutoCAD, LandF/X, Bentley MicroStation.
Experience with rendering and animation software: Photoshop, Enscape, Lumion.
Experience with graphics software: Illustrator, After Effects.
Experience with PDF review software: Bluebeam.
Experience with artificial intelligence software such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Midjourney.
Experience with microclimate, carbon analysis, and climate-positive design tools such as Pathfinder, Forma.

Skills

Design excellence
Innovation
Project delivery
Leadership
Management
Delegation
Problem-solving
Site analysis
Landscape design
Site planning
Urban planning
Sustainable design
Construction technology
Horticulture
Urban design
Planning approvals
Building codes
Accessibility
Proposal writing
Fee calculations
Scheduling
Research
Hand sketching
Verbal communication
Written communication
Reading comprehension
Graphic design
Presentation skills
Planting design
Public realm design
Ecological restoration
Construction drawings
Specification preparation
Tendering
Contract administration
Municipal development approval
Sustainable guideline implementation
Accessible design
Pet-friendly design
Quantity takeoffs
Cost estimating
Park design
Playground design
Spray pad design
Skate stop design
Sports field design
Trail design
Cycling infrastructure design
Irrigation design
Low impact development
Natural area conservation
Road and highway design
CPTED
Transit facility design
Mixed-use development
Transit-oriented development
Integrated Design Process
BIM
Information Management
Revit
Civil 3D
SketchUp
Navisworks
Autodesk Construction Cloud
Bentley ProjectWise
AutoCAD
LandF/X
Bentley MicroStation
Photoshop
Enscape
Lumion
Illustrator
After Effects
Bluebeam
ChatGPT
Copilot
Midjourney
Pathfinder
Forma

Location

Toronto

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior-level
Minimum ten (10) years of professional landscape architectural experience
Minimum five (5) as a full OALA member

Education Level

Bachelors or master’s in landscape architecture degree preferably from a LAAC or LAAB accredited program in Canada or the United States
Full member of the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects (with seal)

Salary/Compensations

$105,680 - $152,000K

About the Company

We are an employee-owned, value-driven company deeply invested in the communities we serve.
Our work spans large-scale ecological restoration, water and transit infrastructure, healthcare, parks, trails, and nature-based solutions for riparian and shoreline habitats.
We offer a collaborative, engaging, and professionally managed environment where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your landscape architecture expertise is integral to multidisciplinary teams and projects.
We’re guided by a shared purpose: creating lasting community benefit.
Our commitment to safety, teamwork, integrity, and respect drives everything we do.

Equal Opportunity

As a diverse and inclusive organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, GHD will provide reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.