Urban Planner​/Designer

Walker Macy is seeking an Urban Planner/Designer for their Portland, OR office. The role requires a professional degree in urban design or landscape architecture and at least two years of relevant experience. Candidates should have strong design skills, proficiency in design software, and be self-motivated and collaborative. The position focuses on socially conscious, sustainable urban design and involves supporting project managers with coordination and scheduling.
Position: Urban Planner / Designer

Walker Macy is a nationally recognized design and planning firm known for outstanding public-facing projects. We lead landscape architecture, urban design, and planning projects throughout the Western United States. Our collaborative and team-oriented office practices planning and urban design as an integrated element of our work. Our planning and urban design work adheres closely to the firm’s focus on place-based, socially conscious design with a commitment to equity, sustainability, innovation, and client service.

We enjoy a broad range of project types that include planning and urban design for campuses, educational facilities, neighborhoods, streetscape, parks and trails, mixed use development, waterfronts, and more. We are particularly focused on addressing the impacts of climate change through socially-conscious, ecologically-rooted urban design.

We are seeking a talented urban designer with at least two years of relevant experience in an urban design-related practice to work in our Portland office. This position requires a professional degree in urban design and planning (postgraduate level) or landscape architecture (BLA or MLA). The position requires a strong understanding of physical planning and design as well as clear graphic communication skills and proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GIS, CAD, and Sketch Up or Rhino.

Hand drawing skills are also an asset. Our ideal team member will have writing and communication skills, be self-motivated, rigorous, collaborative, organized, and efficient. This position will support project managers, including team coordination, scheduling, and deadline management of our work. This position is in-person at our downtown Portland office.

Walker Macy is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Submission requirements to include the following:
• Resume
• Portfolio with work samples demonstrating relevant urban design and planning experience – 12 pages or less, no bigger than 8.5 x 11-inch pages, in a PDF of 10 MB or less. Please include a brief description of the projects described, your role, and identify the medium used for each graphic (i.e., GIS, Illustrator, Sketch Up, Photoshop, hand rendering, etc.).
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