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 interested in using your service and leadership skills to help shape the future of landscape architecture? Are you driven and inspired by multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved through good, sustainable design? Then this role is for you.

Herrera is growing in Southern California and is looking for a Senior Landscape Architect in the Los Angeles area who can lead a vast array of projects. Key project types include school yard greening, park planning and design, sustainable urban development, green stormwater infrastructure, and ecological restoration design while helping to promote and advance our landscape architecture practice. 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 committed to pursuing social and environmental equity through both design process and built project outcomes.

If you are passionate about working collaboratively with other professional disciplines, have a hunger to push sustainability and equity in design, and have deep knowledge of California’s diverse ecosystems with an emphasis on the Los Angeles basin, please apply for this position. 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 and independently, desires to work and grow with other disciplines, and will add to our collaborative group dynamic. The landscape architecture group at Herrera has a range of technical skills and we are looking for someone to help our group thrive and expand these skills.

The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience with a strong portfolio of built projects that demonstrates successful project management and implementation. 

You will be responsible for:

• Actively leading landscape architectural projects that vary in type, size, and scale with a high level of proficiency and expertise.
• Negotiating project scope and fees, leading project production and QA/QC, and managing project budget.
• Providing project management and team leadership through all phases of projects.
• Developing relationships with new clients and managing relationships with existing clients.

Minimum Requirements

• 8+ years of landscape architecture experience 
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in landscape architecture from an accredited program
• Professional licensure as a Landscape Architect in the State of California, or licensed in another state and able to obtain reciprocity within six (6) months
• A strong portfolio of constructed work and senior level experience with project execution

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
• Experience with and/or interest in school yard greening, public works, parks and trails, and infrastructure projects
• Excellent writing, organizational, critical thinking, and communication skills
• Experience writing scopes of work, project budgeting, and responding to Requests for Qualifications or Proposals (RFQ or RFP)
• Experience with community engagement and community-led design processes
• Experience working with Community-based Organizations (CBOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to develop projects and seek and support grant funding opportunities design
• Ability to decipher and implement various building codes and permitting requirements.
• Technical experience with site planning, conceptual design, design development, construction documents, and construction administration/observation
• A passion for sustainable and environmentally sensitive design
• A detailed design focus, in-depth analytical thinking, and strong technical skills
• Proficiency in AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Bluebeam, and MS Office
• Spanish language proficiency is desirable but not required

We are proud to support our employee-owners by offering the following compensation and benefits:

• This position is salaried and exempt from overtime; the salary range is $101,000 - $141,400 annually
• Flexible hybrid work culture - this position is remote from the Los Angeles area
• Medical/prescription drug/dental/vision insurance for employees and dependents; employees covered at no cost on base plan with buy-up options available; company contribution for dependents
• Section 125 flexible benefits plans – healthcare and dependent care
• Company-paid life insurance for employees; option to purchase additional life insurance for employees and dependents at employees’ expense
• Company-paid long term disability insurance for employees; option to purchase short-term disability insurance at employees’ expense
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - we are 100% employee owned!
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid vacation, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 15 days per year for a 40 hour/week employee and prorated for employees working 24-39 hours/week
• Paid sick leave, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 10 days per year for a 40-hour/week employee and prorated for employees working 24-39 hours per week
• Flexible paid holidays (10)
• Paid volunteer time (8 hours annually)
• Company-paid annual membership dues for one professional organization
• Professional development / continuing education allowance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Transit benefit

To learn more, please visit our website at: www.herrerainc.com

We Are Committed to Equal Opportunity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Herrera, we celebrate our differences as much as our similarities. We know the best outcomes come from interdisciplinary, diverse, and inclusive teams. Our values are ever-present in the people, culture, and work we do, they are not just a few sentences on our website. We treat people with respect and act with integrity and objectivity. Our employment decisions are based on knowledge, skills, and abilities, and have nothing to do with your race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, medical history, reproductive health decisions, political ideology, veteran status, or physical appearance. As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, we encourage women, minorities, veterans, disabled veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply for our open positions. We are also a member of E-Verify. To learn more about E-Verify, read the E-Verify Notice and the Right to Work Notice.