Who We Are
Our purpose is to inspire people to be outside and engage in the community around them. As planners and landscape architects, we embrace every opportunity to advance this mission by creating memorable and engaging outdoor experiences.
Founded in 1982, RVi is a leading national planning and design firm with offices located in TX, CO, AZ, FL, GA, and NC and engaged in a broad range of project types including community planning and design, resorts, parks, academic, commercial, hospitality, and veterans cemeteries throughout the US.
We approach each new opportunity with an adventurous spirit, a collaborative mindset, and a desire to consistently raise the bar for our clients and for the communities we serve.
RVE Inc. seeks Senior Sustainability Associate to work in Bonita Springs, Florida.
- Utilize AutoCAD and related software to complete assignments on time and within prescribed standards as outlined in the RVi Quality Assurance Quality Control manual and established standards.
- Provide Support: Drafting Documents and advanced computations; Participatory focus on environmental resiliency, including outlining sustainability goals for projects and evaluating opportunities for certification; Understand and apply water management and nutrient loading principals in resiliency modeling and analysis
- Evaluation of resiliency including modeling, reporting, monitoring, and other quantitative measurements.
- Demonstrate leadership analyzing sustainable design performance metrics with the goal of improving RVi's sustainability practice. Coordinate and complete edits and modify plans as reviewed by agencies, municipalities, and clients as directed.
- Complete site visits as required. Independently perform site walks.
- Communicate with Project Manager on workload status, schedule, and tasks in order to meet designated chargeability goals, as well as provide input for business development and proposals as it relates to sustainability.
- Employ ecological principles authentically in a wide range of environments including the center of redeveloping cities, changing rural landscapes, waterways, and open recreational areas.
- Synthesize information about ecological processes and systems, human behavior, cultural/political institutions, and urban patterns.
- Utilize design precedent and research as a tool that actively informs design process and ideation.
- Bring to life proposals visually utilizing technologies ranging from sketching and model-making to virtual reality simulations, all of which inform design decision-making.
- Create sustainable landscapes that are deep, inspiring, and just, and that work aesthetically, ecologically, socially, technically, and economically.
- Manage projects within a variety of contexts and at a wide range of scales, neighborhood playgrounds to streetscapes, parks, plazas, golf courses, greenways, watersheds, rural landscapes and national parks and forests.
- Manage projects and client expectations, to create places that are ecologically sound, sustainable, safe, inspiring and beautiful landscapes.
- Landscape architects use their design, visualization, and technical skills to help make places that meet a particular need or that heal a damaged landscape, that support human use and interaction, or that heal a community.
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE: 4 years of experience working in a design office specializing in Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, or Environmental Sciences with Landscape Architecture focus, Experience with Urban design to address issues related to sustainability and resilient landscapes. Experience with AutoCAD and GIS software, AdobeCS, Technical Writing, Revit and/or Lumion, MS Office, Experience applying sustainability principles to creative problem solving in landscape design.
MINIMUM EDUCATION: Master's degree in Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Urban Planning, Civil Engineer, Environmental Design, or related.
To attract and retain the best professionals in the industry, we strive to provide a great working environment and a progressive benefits program designed to support your personal and professional needs.
We will support you to be a lifelong learner. You will be encouraged to give back to your community. Meeting deadlines, budgets and project objectives is important, but of equal importance is meeting your needs through training, advancement, and mentorships.
Work/Life-
- Flexible Paid Time Off for Salaried Staff
- Paid Parental & Maternal Leave
- Flexible work schedules are available for some positions
- Tenure Awards — Travel Vouchers to see the world based upon your travel preferences
Compensation-
- Competitive Compensation packages
- Annual bonuses, spot bonuses and peer recognition awards
- 401 k) plan matching formula is 50% of your contributions up to 6%
- Tuition Assistance
- Paid Licensing / Certification Fees and Renewals
- Financial Rewards for Obtaining Licensure
- Employee Referrals up to $5,000
- Annual Wellness Reimbursement up to $500 for Gym Memberships, build your home gym or set up home ergonomic office
Wellness-
- Medical (BC/BS), dental (Delta), and vision (VSP)
- Health Savings Account & Flex Spending Account options
- Employer paid long-term disability, short-term disability, and life insurance
- Metlife Supplemental Benefits covering accident, hospitalization, and critical illness
- Member Assistance Program (MAP) with complimentary counseling sessions, legal benefits, financial consultations, and work/life referral services
