Senior Urban Planner / Designer
WSP|PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF
New York, NY
About WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services consulting firms, provides services designed to transform the built environment and restore the natural one. The firm's expertise ranges from environmental remediation and urban planning, to engineering iconic buildings and designing sustainable transport networks, to developing the energy sources of the future and enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. Approximately 34,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, as well as various environmental experts, work for this dynamic organization in more than 500 offices across 40 countries worldwide.
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff has an immediate need for a Senior Urban Planner/Designer to build the planning practice throughout the Northeast and at the national level. We are seeking a creative and dynamic team player with strong communications skills and an understanding of the issues that affect the City. The candidate will be responsible for a broad array of firm services that play a role in our Urban Strategies practices such as: planning, realm infrastructure, urban design, engineering, transportation, economic and market analysis, etc.
Responsibilities:
Education Requirements:
Graduate degree in urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, and/or city planning (with design focus)
Fifteen (15) to Twenty (20) years of relevant work experience in urban design, landscape architecture and/or planning
Professional registration (e.g., ASLA, AICP) preferred.
EOE / Veteran/ Disability/ Gender (M-F)/Gender Identity/ Sexual Orientation
Please use the following URL to apply:
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WSP|PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF
New York, NY
About WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services consulting firms, provides services designed to transform the built environment and restore the natural one. The firm's expertise ranges from environmental remediation and urban planning, to engineering iconic buildings and designing sustainable transport networks, to developing the energy sources of the future and enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. Approximately 34,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, as well as various environmental experts, work for this dynamic organization in more than 500 offices across 40 countries worldwide.
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff has an immediate need for a Senior Urban Planner/Designer to build the planning practice throughout the Northeast and at the national level. We are seeking a creative and dynamic team player with strong communications skills and an understanding of the issues that affect the City. The candidate will be responsible for a broad array of firm services that play a role in our Urban Strategies practices such as: planning, realm infrastructure, urban design, engineering, transportation, economic and market analysis, etc.
Responsibilities:
- Work with multi-disciplinary teams to implement complex design projects and support growing integrated Urban Strategies practice
- Manage all aspects of project delivery including client management, consultant management, financial management, and project planning and reporting management
- Business development – promote Urban Strategies practice internally within the corporation and externally to all manner of potential clients
- Provide creative report writing, assignment writing skills, and hand sketched and computer aided designs for projects
- Develop CAD/Illustrator/GIS for urban design and landscape architecture packages
- Provide meeting and table facilitation as part of community workshops
- Be available and able to travel nationally on a regular basis (usually 2 to 3 day segments)
- Experience managing engineering, architecture and landscape architecture teams
- Understanding and experience with various aspects of project design including planning through final design, project budgets, administration, contracts and project management
- Ability to conduct business development successfully, generate new leads and create new partnerships with similar organizations
- Understanding of multiple disciplines ranging from engineering systems, market economics, zoning laws, and complete street and stormwater management design
- Experience in the design of transportation facilities and of public realm infrastructure projects
- Ability to work successfully within a corporate matrix environment; responsibilities include reporting to multiple bosses, managing junior design staff, and recruiting qualified design candidates
- Strong client management capabilities, communication skills, and ability to work in a team environment
- Proficiency in use of Adobe Creative Suite, (Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design), GIS, 2D-CAD, 3D rendering capabilities a plus
- Landscape architecture background a plus
- LEED Accredited Professional/AICP a plus
Education Requirements:
Graduate degree in urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, and/or city planning (with design focus)
Fifteen (15) to Twenty (20) years of relevant work experience in urban design, landscape architecture and/or planning
Professional registration (e.g., ASLA, AICP) preferred.
EOE / Veteran/ Disability/ Gender (M-F)/Gender Identity/ Sexual Orientation
Please use the following URL to apply:
http://search0.smartsearchonline.com/pb/jobs/jobdetails.asp?reg=US¤t_page=1&site=int&city=&location=&job_type=&emp_status=®ion=&country=&k1=&k2=&k3=&k4=&k5=&k6=&k7=&k8=&salary_min=&co_num=&apply=yes&job_number=32726&pagename=process_jobsearchUS