1. Landscape Designer & Assistant Project Manager
Advance your luxury-landscaping career working with Grace Designs
Associates, Santa Barbara's award-winning landscape design/build
company. Our business is designing world-class gardens. We are looking
for an exceptionally talented and creative landscape designer and
assistant project manager to add to our team. If you have an excellent
sense of design, a love of beauty, great client communication skills, and a
"can do, get it done" spirit, we want to hear from you!
Landscape Designer & Assistant Project Manager duties include the
following.
• Design: Develop landscape plans from preliminary design through
conceptual and final design, including construction detail plans
• Client Communications: Present concepts, plans and progress to clients,
architects, engineers and other professionals
• Field Work: site analysis, measure, map, photograph
• Bid Management: Prepare various proposals, bids and change orders for
Clients
• Project Management: prepare timelines, critical path, and materials
schedules
• Construction: site visits, meetings w/clients & subcontractors, work with
construction crew through completion of project
• Research: Local codes, agency requirements, source materials,
subcontractors, allied professionals
• Agency Interface: meet with city planners, review boards and inspectors

2. Skills Required
• Strong creative type with design talent with in-depth knowledge of Santa
Barbara regional plants
• Proficient at AutoCAD or Vectorworks, as well as Adobe Creative Suite
• Project management timelines, critical path, materials trafficking,
scheduling, plus knowledge of typical construction practices
• Deadline driven with highest standard of quality
• Excellent organizational, verbal and written skills
• Must work well in a fast-paced work environment
• Strong interpersonal, communication and client relationship skills.
• Self-motivated, eager to learn, coachable, trainable
• Site mapping, preparing site plans from field measurements
• Minimum two years landscape design experience
About Grace Designs Associates
Grace Design Associates specializes in residential Design/Build of World
Class Gardens. Our unique and creative landscape designs have been
recognized with more than 30 awards at the local and national level, and
featured in more than 60 publications including Sunset, Garden Design,
California Homes, Better Homes and Gardens, Traditional Home. To see
our work visit us at: www.GraceDesignAssociates.com.
Apply to join the Grace Designs team as our new Landscape Designer and
Assistant Project Manager. Email us a cover letter, your resume and
samples of your work to: info@gracedesignassociates.com