Landscape Design Project Manager

Join Great Parks as a Landscape Design Project Manager and collaborate with passionate, mission-driven teams. In this role, you’ll blend creativity with strategic project management to design meaningful and sustainable places. Your work will help catalyze conservation initiatives, foster outstanding visitor experiences, and connect people to nature in lasting ways. If you're ready to make a lasting impact, we want to hear from you.

The Landscape Design Project Manager manages design and preforms project management for capital improvement and infrastructure projects. Provides design services for the park district including master planning, site planning, and all design related projects.

The successful candidate will perform the following responsibilities

* Assists in the implementation of the comprehensive master plan and the preparation of master plans for individual parks. * Prepares conceptual designs, drawings, specifications, plans and cost estimates for site-specific capital improvement projects. Creates practical, creative, and functional designs within budget and construction constraints. Incorporates sustainable practices in design solutions. Applies universal design standards when appropriate. * Develops budget requests based upon project cost estimates. * Coordinates and facilitates design team meetings with park district staff during the planning, construction, and post construction phases of capital improvement projects. * Facilitates staff communications, internally and externally, to ensure projects appropriately identify and address specific needs and goals that are consistent with the park district’s mission, vision, and strategic plan. * Manages selection and performance of engineering and architectural consultants as assigned by preparing and evaluating requests for qualifications, organizing selection committees, negotiating contract amounts and modifications and executing contracts. * Prepares bid packages and conducts bid openings. *...