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Assistant Planner, McKenna Associates - Northville, MI

Assistant Planner
We invite you to consider becoming part of our success story and optimize your potential by working on diverse municipal projects (master planning, placemaking, zoning, strategic planning, parks and recreation planning, downtown planning, urban design and community and economic development projects). You’ll be challenged by interesting project experiences, a varied client base, and by fellow professionals in an atmosphere that mixes fun with work.
We are hiring for positions in our historic downtown Northville, Michigan headquarters; we are seeking planners beginning their professional career.  We’ll be interviewing recent urban planning program graduates as well as planning professionals with 1-2 years of experience. 
  
McKenna Associates was recognized by Crain’s Detroit Business as a “Cool Place to Work”, and is a leading community planning, landscape architecture, and urban design firm with a 37-year history.  We pride ourselves on professionalism, innovative solutions and high quality service to large and small communities (cities, villages, townships, and counties), agencies and select private clients throughout the Midwest and U.S. 
McKenna provides excellent benefits and salary, career paths, direct client interaction, and continuous employee learning and reward opportunities.  Close to Southeast Michigan’s centers of culture, entertainment, recreation and education. 
To join our winning team, email  your qualifications and cover letter to Sarah Traxler, AICP at info@mcka.com. EOE.