Senior Landscape Architect

Senior Landscape Architect Position

Posting Date: July 27, 2026

Deadline: Sept 30, 2026

Starting Date: Sept - November

Location: 130 Queens Quay East, Toronto, Ontario

Job Details:

About MT Planners: MT Planners is an internationally renowned design firm specializing in landscape architecture, urban design and environmental planning. We are a team of +/- 15 designers committed to the process of creating the environments needed to sustain humanity in the 21st century.

Over the past 60 years our firm has focused on a natural systems approach to city design addressing the critical issues that face our world. Our projects range in complexity, scale and are developed with an unyielding commitment to resilient and socially transformative results.

Each of MTP’s projects is driven by a vision of a unique people and a unique land. We think about the people, their communities and their future generations who will be the benefactors of a healthier environment. Our projects share a common goal to repair and enhance the natural systems that support us all.

In responding to the complexity and pressures of modern cities and the natural systems that support them, we must dedicate our focus to improving and enriching urban environments through the integration of science and design. A systems approach to city design focuses on implementing sustainable practices that will resurrect entire environments from collapse to become thriving focal points of community life. How we assess the performance of our communities will define its treatment program. First, we must support higher functions, then care for the vital systems, then repair what is broken over time. The solutions we seek may be realized through an integrated systems approach to city redesign.

We are looking to grow our team with individuals who have an ethos towards environmentally sustainable solutions, big picture integration with socio-economic systems, and understanding of ecology and natural systems, and a strong capacity for turning analysis and research into designed solutions and deliverables. You will be a member of a team who is passionate and driven. You will work closely with the company leadership, your colleagues and an inspiring consultant network to generate thoughtful and thorough deliverables that range from Master Plan spatial strategies to contract documentation.

We value confident, collaborative team members who elevate those around them. This role offers significant responsibility, client interaction and opportunities for professional growth within an established leadership team that has guided the firm's success for decades. We are looking for someone who enjoys mentoring, collaborating and managing within a dynamic and agile team.

The following outlines core skillsets, competencies, proficiencies and capabilities for this role. Please convey your relevant and proven experience to support your application.

Background Requirements:

• University degree in Landscape Architecture / Architecture or recognized equivalent
• Relevant Professional experience, min 10 years
• Project experience: demonstrates clear roles on projects, range in scales and scope of projects, and adaptability to work locally and internationally.
• Professional experience: highlight roles in previous studios - position, responsibilities and accountability structures for you and your teams for delivering quality work.

Quality of Work:

Must show a proven level of:

• Strategic thinking and design integration across social, cultural and economic systems
• Sophisticated understanding and application of landscape as critical infrastructure, integrating water, ecology, mobility, public realm and community outcomes to achieve positive impacts for climate adaptation, resilience, biodiversity and regenerative landscape design.
• High quality, context and scope appropriate visual communications including; drawings, graphics, presentations, maps, plans reports and deliverables.
• Implementation examples

Technical Skills:

High proficiency and demonstrated experiences:

• AutoCad (include proficiency in all Autodesk programs) including proven management of workflow and production of complex comprehensive packages, quality control and adherence to standards
• Microsoft Suite and Adobe are required for management and project communications, schedules, deliverables and project quality and control
• Clear understanding of other key programs and workflows in the design and construction industry including Arc GIS, Rhino, visualizations flow, ai integration should be highlighted.
• Understand and be able to manage deliverables at all stages of a design process including master planning to working drawings, grading and layout plans, planting plans, details, BOQ’s and specifications
• Development of critical analysis, collaborative coordination internally and externally with our partners and clients.
• Interpretation and incorporation of critical design inputs and coordinating consultant drawings including Architectural, Engineering, Hydrology, Environmental Assessments, Reports
• Accessing and incorporating planning acts, building codes, best practices, standards and guidelines, etc. for relevant governing authorities locally and internationally
• Proven experience organizing databases and digital project deliverables as well as a clear understanding of efficient project archiving and organization
• Learns new technologies and workflows quickly.

Management Skills:

Proven experiences:

• Project delivery management from inception, scheduling, project tracking, day to day communications, managing workflows, minutes, actions lists and control, scope control with an understanding and proven experience utilizing standard project management systems and tools.
• Adept at managing multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities and adaptable to different project organizational structures by different clients and prime consultants.
• Thrives within multi-disciplinary teams working on complex international projects.
• Working with a longstanding leadership and a dynamic studio team

Communications Skills:

Proven abilities:

• Communicate with positivity, clarity, confidence and professionalism in every setting—from client meetings and workshops to informal conversations with colleagues and project partners
• Demonstrate clear, organized communication skills, verbal, written and graphic
• Adaptation to multiple web-based communication and collaboration platforms for communications with our international clients and consultants.
• Detail oriented, quality driven, clear and concise communication skills for driving internal and external coordination and high capacity for working in a team environment.
• Communications methodologies for managing deliverable outputs and quality.

If you share in our professional purpose and are interested in exciting projects that range in scale, scope and complexity and you have a desire to gain experience with both local and international work please submit your digital cover letter, resume, at least two references and portfolio to our senior team at [email protected] attn: Tara McCarthy. Please tell us a little bit about what makes you excited about this field, how you qualify for the level of professional experience we require and please include anything additional about yourself that you would like us to know.

We are a studio in Toronto, Canada, located at 130 Queen’s Quay East. This position is in studio. We are a small team who does big things. We pride ourselves on communication, dedication and commitment to project deliverables, timelines and client attention. We are looking for someone who can offer positive energy to our studio team and enjoys working collaboratively.

We welcome all who professionally qualify to apply, and we look forward to a conversation with all whom we reach out to.