Project Community/Urban Planner

Olsson Studio delivers a boutique creative design experience to our clients and our people, backed by the expertise and resources of our whole company.

As a Project Community/Urban Planner within our Studio team, you will apply diversified principles and practices in broad areas of assignments with minimal supervision, often managing small-to-medium sized projects. The project planner’s work requires a mastery of specialized techniques or ingenuity when selecting and evaluating solutions to unforeseen or novel problems. The project planner applies analytical solutions to a wide variety of problems and assimilates details and their significance toward various analyses. The project planner may supervise planners, technicians, and interns.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Develops community master plans, comprehensive plans, and strategic plans.
• Facilitates public meetings and conducts technical research.
• Prepares design and contract documents and handles contract documents, and handles contract administration for planning projects.
• Completes management tasks including the development of the project’s scope of work, the project’s schedule, and the completion of the project’s initial paperwork.
• Assists with budget reviews and schedules progress reports.
• Coordinates with clients and attends client meetings.
• Assists with marketing/business development and helps write proposals.
• Serves as project manager on small to medium projects.
• Trains others on more complex work.

Requirements

You are passionate about:

• Working collaboratively with others
• Having ownership in the work you do
• Using your talents to positively affect communities
• Pursuing and working on projects that you want to work on.

You bring to the team:

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to contribute and work well on a team
• Strong project management skills
• Passion for continued learning and expertise development
• An established professional network
• Proven track record in winning projects and providing excellent client service
• Bachelor’s degree in in urban planning, architecture, public policy, or a related area of study
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in planning or a closely related field
• Certified Planner (AICP) preferred
• Adept in verbal and written communication and presentation skills