Landscape Architect (2 positions)

• Company Civitas Achitecture Inc
• Location Ottawa, Ontario
• Published May 01, 2023
• Closing Jun 26, 2023

• Email [email protected]
• Phone (613) 447-2551

Civitas Architecture Inc. has an immediate opening for two Landscape Architects to join with our team of experienced architects and landscape architects. One position is for someone still early in your career and the other for someone progressing in your career.

What we are looking for in a candidate:

• A full member or enrolled for membership with the OALA or the AAPQ.
• Eager to continue learning and open to receive mentoring opportunities.
• Competent in detailed landscape design and construction technologies.
• Ability to track project inputs and changes efficiently through the life of a project.
• Confident communicator that includes colleagues, clients, and contractors.
• Well practised in AutoCAD.
• Like to get things done.
• Working language in English and French.

Who we are:

At Civitas Architecture Inc., we pursue projects that challenge us, are meaningful to the communities we live in, and promote environmental sustainability. We focus on studies that help our clients in taking innovative approaches to manage and design their properties and on design projects that lead to built work.

Civitas has an extensive and diverse portfolio executed as Prime Consultant, including award-winning design projects, implemented across Ottawa, Gatineau, and eastern Ontario. Our projects range from small renovations to complex design projects. Our core client base is government and public institutional organizations at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels and increasingly working on urban housing projects.

We promote our work under the name, Civitas Group, Architecture & Landscape Architecture which reflects our commitment to integrated design.

You will be working closely with our two Senior Landscape Architects who have completed compelling built work both big and small. In our portfolio, we have studies that address contemporary concerns in heritage conservation, universal accessibility, and designing for biodiversity. Among our more complex projects are the Parliament Hill Escarpment Stairway and Site Rehabilitation project which received the Canadian Society of Landscape Architect Award of Excellence in 2018, the Ottawa Courthouse Green Roof, and landscape rehabilitation along the Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site related to the construction of ten new stoplogs dams.

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent, On-site

Salary: Matched to expertise, plus a benefit package.

Location: Our office is in the Wellington West neighbourhood at 203-6 Hamilton Avenue, Ottawa in a heritage building that was the former Capital Wire Cloth Factory. The office is in walking distance to the Tunney’s Pasture LRT station.