Urban Planner - ( 230001P5 )

Description

Join Stantec’s Urban Places to help us create more livable, prosperous, sustainable, resilient, and equitable urban and urbanizing places across North America. Our Urban Places team is growing, and we are looking for an Urban Planner to be based in our Boston office to support planning and urban design projects in the US and Canada. www.stantec.com/urban-places Stantec’s Urban Places (UP)is an interdisciplinary specialized practice within a global consulting firm, offering opportunities to be involved in a variety of urban projects and collaborate with Stantec’s leading experts in a variety of fields.

Your Opportunity

Our plans create places, networks, and infrastructure that connect people to place, to prosperity, and to each other. UP planners and designers lead transformational projects in communities across North America. Our team has won dozens of awards for work ranging from downtown and district plans to community-wide and regional plans. We work closely with our colleagues across Stantec in architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, real estate, mobility, environmental science, and other disciplines to provide plans that are both visionary and feasible, driven by data and grounded in market realities.

The planner will work with the team primarily on projects in the public and nonprofit sectors, as well as potential opportunities to work on private-sector projects. They should have an interest in community-scale projects, such as comprehensive plans, that involve a high level of interdisciplinary and integrated strategic thinking, both physical and programmatic. The work will include incorporating planning solutions to challenges such as affordable housing and income inequality, climate change and sea level rise, multimodal mobility, and resource-efficiency into planning initiatives and documents. A strong commitment to effective community engagement and constituency-building is critical.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Research and analysis on a variety of planning topics, data, and trends, such as socio-demographics, housing, economic conditions, real estate, energy, resilience, and infrastructure.
• Preparation of GIS maps and analysis.
• Data-driven analysis.
• Organization, coordination, and participation in community engagement workshops, and other events.
• Development of online surveys and analysis of results.
• Preparation of draft project materials including handouts, PowerPoints, flyers, display boards, and so on.
• Writing and preparation of draft reports and plans.
• Work with client leaders and staff as needed.
• Work effectively with urban designers on conceptual planning, design guidelines, and similar design elements of planning documents.
• Work effectively with graphic designers on producing infographics, project materials, reports, and plans.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Strong communications skills—both graphic and especially verbal and written.
• Experience with the production of planning reports and documents and a thorough knowledge and familiarity with the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience with GIS map production and data management.
• Data analysis expertise in Excel/Sheets. Experience with python, SQL, R, and other statistical analysis packages is preferred.
• Ability to engage effectively with a wide variety of clients and stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated responsibility, maturity, and commitment to a team-driven environment.
• Ability to help organize and manage complex projects
• Demonstrated research and analysis experience including demographic, housing, and economic analysis.
• understanding of land use and zoning strategies
• Demonstrated ability to write clearly and succinctly
• Demonstrated quantitative skills
• Ability to communicate persuasively to a variety of audiences—technical, policymaking, and the general public
• Interest in finding integrated solutions that incorporate placemaking, economic and environmental sustainability, and resilience.
• Ability to communicate in Spanish is not required but desirable.
• Location in Boston, MA
• Willingness to travel as needed.

Education and Experience

• A graduate degree in Urban Design, Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or a related field. A Liberal Arts bachelor’s degree is preferred.
• 1-4 years of relevant work experience.

Typical office environment working with computers. Some travel may be required (25%), such as delivering plans or documents to reviewing agencies or clients or to attend meetings. May occasionally visit study areas, construction sites and/or be exposed to outside elements and inclement weather conditions.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Benefits Summary: Full-time and part-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

Primary Location : United States-Massachusetts-Boston

Organization : BC-2104 CommDev-US Northeast

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : Yes, 25 % of the Time

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Apr 15, 2023, 4:29:41 AM

Req ID: 230001P5

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans