Senior Urban Planner and Project Manager

Freese and Nichols is seeking a Senior Urban Planner and Project Manager to join their Urban Planning and Design Group. The role focuses on managing urban planning projects in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas, requiring collaboration with a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should have skills in hazards planning, comprehensive planning, and urban design. The position allows for remote work, with occasional travel for project commitments and client meetings.
About the position

Freese and Nichols, Inc. (FNI) is currently searching for a highly-motivated, passionate and energetic Senior Urban Planner and project manager to join the Urban Planning and Design Group in one of the following offices: Tulsa, OK or Oklahoma City, OK. Our ideal candidate would strengthen our capabilities in hazards and resilience planning (and associated Federal programs), comprehensive planning, small area planning such as downtown revitalization plans and corridor plans, and/or development codes. Hybrid skillsets, such as planning combined with landscape architecture or planning combined with hazards/disaster recovery & mitigation, are especially encouraged. We have several projects active now in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas across all types of planning, with additional opportunities on the horizon. This position is an exciting opportunity to advance the practice of community planning and design in a way that allows you to consistently provide innovative and sustainable solutions to communities that respond to the vision and capabilities of the people and community, work side-by-side with a team of the brightest minds in the industry and know that you're part of a team that strives to make the world a better place, Freese and Nichols is where you should be. Our multidisciplinary group includes some of the most creative urban planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and site civil engineers, all housed under the same group to create a studio-like atmosphere of idea generation. This is backed by overall firm support from a variety of expert engineers, skilled GIS analysts, talented environmental scientists, and a variety of other practices. This senior position primarily focuses on managing urban planning and urban design projects based in the Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas areas, though the geographic footprint can shift based on client needs and team talent as well as your interests. The ideal candidate is not just skilled, but passionate about helping communities find paths to success through comprehensive plans, downtown plans, small area plans, codes and ordinances, and a wide variety of other plans and projects reaching across multiple design disciplines.

Responsibilities
• Work in a collaborative environment as part of a multi-discipline team.
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• Demonstrate ability to produce well-written reports and highly visual documents.
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• Manage personal timeliness and technical correctness of a project to ensure high-quality work that fits within a client's budget and expectations.
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• Be willing to travel as needed to meet project commitments, including overnight travel and evening client meeting obligations.
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• Prepare and facilitate public involvement and consensus-building meetings and workshops.
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• Assist the group manager with related marketing and client development for planning assignments and help support/identify strategic direction to advance urban planning and urban design practices.
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• Represent the company at conferences, seminars, meetings; make presentations to clients, government officials, and industry representatives.
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• Plan, schedule, conduct and coordinate detailed phases of planning work in several large and important projects.
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• Develop plans for utilization of land and physical facilities of cities, counties, campuses, metropolitan areas, and larger geographies, demonstrating creativity, foresight and mature judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented planning and design phases of a project.
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• Maintain liaisons with individuals inside and outside of the company.
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• Draft proposals and statements of qualification within the directives of company policy relating to marketing.
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• Supervise technicians and other planners when performing project tasks.

Requirements
• 8+ years of urban planning-related work experience
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• Bachelor's degree in Urban Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture or a related field to planning is required.
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• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, various common graphic design programs, database management and GIS
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• Experience in cross-sector planning (community and economic development, resilience, etc.), project management of multiple and complex projects, facilitation and engagement, project and scope development, and other skills necessary to be successful in a government-client focused, high-paced firm.
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• American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certification

Nice-to-haves

Benefits
• health insurance
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• paid time off
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• 401(k) matching
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• paid overtime for salaried employees
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• tuition reimbursement