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We are Herrera

Envision yourself at a growing, employee-owned company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best performance while making a difference in the world. 

We are Herrera, a science, planning, and design consulting firm dedicated to working with clients to develop holistic solutions that provide social and environmental benefit. We protect the environment every day by providing a diverse range of consulting services to cities, counties, state and federal agencies, and private clients throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and western Canada. 

For over 40 years, Herrera has cultivated a collaborative, caring culture that empowers our employee-owners to achieve excellence while ensuring we have fun along the way. By providing our employee-owners with the autonomy to pursue their professional interests and through encouraging them to grow, we benefit from high employee-owner retention that contributes to our longstanding partnerships with clients.

*Our Values * 

• Treat everyone with respect and dignity, always. 
• Insist on integrity, objectivity, and social and environmental ethics in our work. 
• Act as stewards of the environment upon which we depend. 
• Research and outreach, learn and teach.
• Employee owners, employee leaders.

Your opportunity:

Are you a landscape architect driven and inspired by multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved through good, sustainable design? Do you have a hunger to push ecological resilience and equity in design? Do you have a deep knowledge of west coast ecosystems? Then we'd love to hear from you!

Herrera's approach to landscape architecture maximizes ecological benefits, including consideration of life-cycle maintenance, planning for climate-adaptive futures, and creating meaningful places. We are also committed to pursuing social and environmental equity through both design process and built project outcomes.

We are looking for someone who has a strong desire to continually learn, loves to innovate and creatively problem solve, works well within a team, desires to work and grow with other disciplines, and will add to our passionate group dynamic.

You will be responsible for:

• Actively managing landscape architectural projects that vary in type, size, and scale with a high level of proficiency and expertise, including park master planning and design, sustainable urban development, green stormwater infrastructure, and ecological system design
• Supporting project scoping and fee development
• Leading project production and tracking and manage project budgets
• Delegating to and supporting the growth of junior staff within the landscape architecture department
• Demonstrating and sharing knowledge that will advance the vision and goals of the team

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in the field of landscape architecture
• Bachelor's or master's degree in landscape architecture from an accredited program, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Professional licensure as a Landscape Architect in Oregon or Washington State, or ability to obtain reciprocity within 6 months of start date
• A strong portfolio of managed projects
• Willingness to travel to project and office locations, on occasion, to support team collaboration, construction observation, and post-construction monitoring

Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Experience producing contract documents including plans, specifications, and cost estimates and ability to lead and manage teams throughout design production

Ability to develop design frameworks for defining project goa