I currently work for a firm in Houston where I focus on physical site design, including subdivisions, master planned communities, and town centers. We are extremely busy and are looking to hire an entry-level physical site planner. The emphasis is on the planning side of the landscape architecture job. Ideally, the person should be very familiar with AutoCAD, including plat creation, pad fits, lot design, land plan schematics and be able to take a scanned/inked drawing from me and turn it into a CAD base. I work extensively in AutoCAD myself but there is so much work I can’t do all of the design AND production anymore.
I am not going to post the full description on here, but if anyone is interesting in knowing more please send me a private message. My firm is interested in interviewing/hiring the right person, even if he/she is located outside of Houston. I cannot comment on relocation expenses at this time, but we all have to start somewhere.
Finally, can anyone recommend landscape architecture or urban design programs that have more of an emphasis on physical site design/urban design? I have a non-design planning degree from UIUC but learned a ton about landscape architecture from a K-State landscape architect. I have also heard great things about LSU grads. Ideally, I would like to post the formal advertisements on school employment boards in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, and Mississippi.
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