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Landscape Architect Senior Project Manager
📅 Jul 16
Landscape ArchitectureProject ManagementBudgetingFinancial Management
📜 Description
- Lead and grow the Landscape Architecture practice in North Carolina, serving clients across the Carolinas and Southeast.
- Guide planning and design for municipal infrastructure, parks and recreation, educational campuses, and private development.
- Manage projects from site selection and planning through design, permitting, bidding, and construction support.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams, mentor staff, strengthen client relationships, and drive business development.
- Deliver integrated solutions with specialists across civil/site, planning, transportation, environmental services, and related disciplines.
🛠️ Requirements
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Landscape Architecture, planning, or a related field from an accredited program.
- North Carolina PLA license, or ability to obtain one through reciprocity within three months; neighboring-state licensure is a plus.
- 12+ years of progressive landscape architecture experience.
- Strong project management skills, including budgeting, financial management, QA/QC, and resource planning.
- Experience leading public and/or private land development projects through complex design and regulatory challenges.
- Proven ability to develop client relationships, win work, and grow existing accounts.
- Knowledge of North Carolina permitting processes and regulatory agencies.
- Experience leading, mentoring, and developing multidisciplinary teams; strong planning, design, construction, and prioritization skills.
✨ Benefits
- Professional development and leadership training.
- Mentorship and opportunities for greater responsibility.
- Up to 9% retirement contribution for benefit-eligible employees.
- Work schedules that support professional and personal life.
- Generous paid time off for benefit-eligible employees.
- Parental leave for benefit-eligible employees.
Full job description
Simply Put, A Great Place to Work
Benesch is a growing, multi-disciplined planning, engineering, and professional services firm. We enhance infrastructure and communities across the country – creating spaces and providing connections in ways that make a difference.
We pride ourselves on being nimble enough to remain responsive to client needs yet large enough to offer exceptional bench strength. As a member of our team, you’ll have an opportunity to draw from those resources when you need them and, likewise, contribute your expertise when you have something to share.
At Benesch, we are looking for candidates with varied backgrounds and worldviews. We are committed to offering an inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and respected. Statistics show that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a position if they don’t meet 100% of the qualifications. If this statement resonates with you, don’t be so hard on yourself—apply for the job!
Landscape Architect Senior Project Manager
Lead Benesch’s Landscape Architecture team and help shape connected, resilient communities across the Carolinas and the Southeast. In this leadership role, you will guide planning and design services for projects that advance environmentally responsible land development, community infrastructure, recreation, and public space. This is an opportunity to continue growing a high-performing practice while delivering projects that expand access to recreation and education, improve mobility and accessibility, and enhance quality of life across the region, offering upward leadership.
Our team delivers high-impact planning and design across a diverse portfolio of project types:
- Municipal Infrastructure: Parks & Recreation Planning and Design efforts, Comprehensive Plans, Master Plans, Feasibility Studies, Community Planning, Site Design, Capital Improvement projects, Greenways, Multi-use paths, Parks, Public Works projects, Utilities, and Grant/Funding support. Clients include local, state, and federal agencies and corresponding departments.
- Educational Campus / Facilities, including K–12, Charter Schools, Universities, and Community Colleges: Long-standing collaboration with architects on school developments, including ongoing multi-project programs. Long-standing relationships and current projects with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, NCSU, ECU, APP State, and many community colleges.
- Private Development: Site selection, layout, design, permitting, cost estimating, bidding, and construction support. Clients include various Health Care Providers, Commercial, Multi-Use, and Multi-Family Residential Developers.
Location
This full-time hybrid role is based in our Charlotte office, where in-office collaboration at least three days per week supports strong team connection, mentorship, and client service.
The Impact You Will Have
- As the Landscape Architecture Senior Project Manager, you will play a key leadership role in growing Benesch's Landscape Architecture practice in North Carolina while serving clients throughout the Carolinas and Southeast.
- You'll lead multidisciplinary teams, strengthen client relationships, mentor talented staff, and drive business development. Working alongside experts in civil/site, planning, transportation, structures, traffic, hydraulics, environmental services, aviation, rail, and economic development, you'll deliver integrated solutions that shape the communities we serve. With more than 1,200 professionals across 50+ offices—and North Carolina offices in Charlotte, Raleigh, and Wilmington—Benesch offers the resources, reach, and local presence to support ambitious growth across the state.
What You Will Need
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Landscape Architecture, City/Community/Regional Planning, Urban Planning, or a related field from an accredited program.
- North Carolina PLA license (or ability to obtain through reciprocity within three months); licensure in neighboring states is a plus.
- 12+ years of progressive landscape architecture experience.
- Strong project management skills, including budgeting, financial management, QA/QC, and resource planning.
- Extensive experience leading public and/or private land development projects through complex design and regulatory challenges.
- Proven success in developing new client relationships, winning work, and growing existing accounts.
- Strong knowledge of North Carolina permitting processes and regulatory agencies.
- Experience leading, mentoring, and developing multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a strategic focus.
- Strong planning, design, and construction expertise, with a collaborative, positive leadership style.
Why Benesch?
It’s simple. We invest in our people, not just our projects.
Your next opportunity should do more than offer a new title. It should build on the experience you've gained, challenge you to keep growing, and give you the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
At Benesch, we believe great work starts with great people. That's why we're committed to creating an environment where you can contribute your ideas, develop your skills, and build a career you're proud of.
Here's what you can look forward to:
- Real career growth: Professional development, leadership training, mentorship, and opportunities to take on new challenges and greater responsibility.
- A strong financial future: Up to 9% retirement contribution for benefit-eligible employees.
- Flexibility that works: Work schedules that support your professional and personal life.
- Time to recharge: Generous paid time off and parental leave for benefit-eligible employees.
- Work that makes an impact: Opportunities to collaborate, contribute ideas, solve meaningful challenges, and see the difference your work makes.
- Room to grow your way: Whether you want to deepen your expertise, explore new opportunities, or grow into leadership, we want to help you take the next step.
Your Next Chapter Starts Here
Whether you're just starting your career or bringing years of experience, Benesch offers an opportunity to build on what you've accomplished while continuing to grow.
Bring your experience, your ideas, and your ambition. Discover what you can accomplish at Benesch.
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Equal Opportunity & Accessibility
At Benesch, we believe great work starts with great people and that means creating a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.
Benesch is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants in all protected groups, including veterans and individuals with disabilities, or other status protected by federal, state, and local laws.
Benesch is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with a physical disability or other impairment.
If you are limited in your ability or are unable to access Benesch's Careers website due to a physical disability or other impairment, you may request a reasonable accommodation by emailing TalentAcquisition@benesch.com. This option is only available to those in need of an accommodation due to a disability or other impairment. Please do not use this as an alternative method for general inquiries or status on applications, as you will not receive a response. Reasonable requests will be responded to as soon as possible on a case-by-case basis.
If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.
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We will be accepting applications on an ongoing basis until a candidate is found.
External Recruiters and Staffing Agencies
Benesch shall have no obligation to compensate any external recruiter or search firm for candidate submissions made without a valid, current, and fully executed agreement. Submission of candidate information does not establish entitlement to a fee.
All recruiting activity must be coordinated and authorized through the Benesch Talent Acquisition team. Please direct all communications to TalentAcquisition@Benesch.com
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