Senior Project Director
Singapore
Description

We are seeking a Landscape Project Director to coordinate and manage strategies on multiple projects. Interested applicants must be a deeply knowledgeable project delivery lead who constantly works to improve the quality of project deliverables. A positive team player that can work collaboratively and independently. 

The ideal candidate must possess the following skills: 

  • Strong organizational skills 
  • A high degree of self-motivation, flexibility, and resourcefulness 
  • Experience from concept through construction administration 
  • Ability to skillfully work alongside internal and external collaborators. 
  • Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills. 
  • Promote and strive to apply our office mission and values of curiosity, inclusion, collaboration, making and perspective through a collaborative design outlook on all assigned project tasks.
  • Successfully meets project performance, concepts and schedule goals set forth by the Creative and Studio Directors 
  • Holistic project experience (includes design and project management): minimum of 1-2 landmark/iconic project(s) in Singapore where the candidate was involved from concept to completion. This landmark/iconic project would ideally be a public park and/or biophilic skyrise-landscape-with-architecture.  
  • Skill diversity across various landscape scales and typologies. For example, residential gardens to neighborhood parks to town landscape planning. 
  • Experience with local and regional projects.
  • Actively engaging in the design process and working toward the successful completion of the project/ phase.
  • Building and maintaining project plans that work within budget. Collaborating with Studio Directors to coordinate project-level staffing needs. 
  • Assisting studio leadership by managing sub-consultant contracts and scope of work. Identifying additional service opportunities and drafting corresponding proposals for SD/ CD review.
  • Actively mentoring and developing project teams on project delivery with an emphasis on sharing technical knowledge, workflow and design tool strategies, code compliance, construction management, project management and design feasibility. 
  • Monitoring QA/QC on project deliverables ensuring strong and technically accurate work.
  • A Project Director may perform the role of Project Designer on smaller projects as necessary. 
  • Participating in the development and improvement of office standards, professional development resources and curriculums within the office to ensure a uniformly high quality of design delivery across the office. 
  • Fostering and encouraging a positive work environment amongst peers and teams; Engaging in the office culture. 
Requirements
  • A minimum of 10+ years of professional experience 
  • Master’s/Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture from a recognized university. Candidates with an Architecture Master’s/Bachelor’s Degree with experienced in landscape will be considered
  • Experience with REVIT, Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Bluebeam 
  • Accredited Landscape Architect preferred 
  • Knowledge of plants in tropical climate  
  • Language proficiency in at least 1 language (other than English) used in South-east Asia and Asia Pacific