Landscape Designer (Whistler, BC)

Whistler, BC, Canada .
full-time . January 17, 2022

Description

Pika Landscapes has been creating and maintaining beautiful outdoor spaces in Whistler and beyond for more than 20 years.

If you've got a craving to design beautiful residential landscapes in the mountains, have the credentials and experience to back it up, and are happy to get your hands dirty in the field from time to time, we’d like to talk to you.

We’re known for:

Quality service
Organic principles (Whistler’s only certified Organic Landscape business)
Supporting a great work-life balance in a lifestyle-oriented mountain resort town
Having fun
High-end residential landscape installations
Our new vehicles and equipment
Cultivating a tight-knit, high performing team
Lots of 3-day weekends during the summer months
Overtime pay (not the industry norm)
Having systems in place for much of what we do
Creating growth opportunities for staff:
transparent organizational structure
detailed job descriptions and pay scale for each role
annual budget allocated to key staff education and training

This is a full-time (~40hr/week, Monday to Friday) salaried position but is expected to be busier from March through December, and light January and February.

While based in Whistler, we also work in Squamish and Pemberton.

Job overview

This is a new role created to help support our growing design/build service offering. You’ll be our in-house landscape designer to develop plans, renderings and construction documentation to communicate design concepts to our clients and help our field crews and subcontractors to execute installations.

You will work closely with owner, Adam Neilson, who has a degree in Landscape Architecture.

Pika Landscapes is growing, with minimum annual growth of 15% and a seasonal staff of 30+. We’re always investing in new equipment, are based in the mountain resort town of Whistler and have daily opportunities to create and maintain beautiful outdoor spaces.

Generally speaking

Your job is to listen, create, and communicate ideas to clients and Pika installation crews.

Responsibilities may include:

Conduct phone and in-person consultations with Adam and/or clients for landscape design and installation purposes
Conduct site inventories: existing features like trees and rock, sunlight and drainage conditions etc.
Complete project takeoffs and verify elevations when needed
Create landscape plans as needed for each project
Prepare detailed job packages for installation crews then coordinate closely with Construction manager and Project Foremen on all aspects of the installation of projects you design

And, there’s an opportunity to take on some sales and estimating responsibility over time too. Training will be provided for this depending on experience.

As this is a new role at Pika, it’s expected that you’ll be happy to pitch in wherever the business needs help throughout the year as design work may not always fill a schedule.

You’ll be good at this job if

You’re organized and adaptable: schedules and circumstances often change no matter how well we plan, so you roll with it with a smile
You’re always thinking about how to do things better and you take the initiative to put those adjustments in motion
You’re responsible and dependable
You’re self-aware, can take direct feedback and want to grow personally
You listen well, follow instructions and ask questions when things aren’t clear
You communicate effectively and proactively
You’re confident, ambitious, keen to learn but come without an ego
You’re accountable and have a mature sense of personal responsibility: you say what you think, make commitments and follow through
You’re inclined to smile and be polite even when you don’t feel like it. We want our customers to love you.
You sweat the details. We don’t cut corners and quality is critical.

Requirements

At least 2 years of landscape installation and 1 year of landscape design experience
Degree or diploma in Landscape Architecture or Landscape Design
Strong understanding of landscape construction methods and installation techniques both for hard and soft scape elements
Very capable with landscape design software to quickly develop concept plans; planting, grading and lighting plants; construction details and 3D renderings
A class 5 driver’s licence in good standing
A working visa or permanent residency

Compensation and benefits

$45 - $60k/yr depending on qualifications and experience
Weekly payroll
Company computer and phone bill reimbursement
During high summer months, work 9hr days and take every second Monday off
Support for ongoing training and education after one full year of employment
Employee health spending account: spend on any personal health related expenses

Compensation

$45,000.00 - $60,000.00

Know someone who would be a perfect fit? Let them know!