Urban Designer/Campus Planner

Freese and Nichols, Inc. (FNI) is currently searching for a highly-motivated, passionate and energetic Urban Designer/Campus Planner to grow the Urban Planning and Design Group in our Charlotte, North Carolina office.

If you're seeking an exciting opportunity to advance urban design by delivering innovative, sustainable solutions for communities and institutions-from higher education campus plans and public spaces to downtown placemaking for revitalization-while collaborating with some of the brightest minds in the industry and contributing to a team committed to making the world a better place, Freese and Nichols is the place for you. Our multidisciplinary group includes some of the most creative urban planners, urban designers, landscape architects and site civil engineers, all working together in the same group to create a studio-like atmosphere of idea generation. We are supported by a variety of expert engineers, skilled GIS analysts, and talented environmental scientists and biologists throughout the firm. This position primarily focuses on managing and developing campus plans for higher education, and urban design projects with a regional focus.

Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Work in a collaborative environment as part of a multi-discipline team.
• Demonstrate ability to develop site analysis, conceptual plans, and site designs at a master planning level.
• Prepare for and facilitate stakeholder involvement and consensus-building meetings and workshops.
• Demonstrate ability to produce well-written reports and highly visual documents.
• Help plan, schedule, conduct and coordinate detailed phases of planning work in several large and important projects.
• Manage personal timeliness and technical correctness of a project to ensure high-quality work that fits within a client's budget and expectations.
• Be willing to travel as needed to meet project commitments, including overnight travel and evening client meeting obligations.
• Represent the company at conferences, seminars and meetings; make presentations to clients, government officials and industry representatives.
• Help draft proposals and statements of qualification within the directives of company policy relating to marketing.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of urban design and campus planning-related work experience
• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in urban planning, landscape architecture or architecture is required.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, Sketchup and rendering/visualization programs

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Strong freehand illustration and rendering skills
• AICP certification, or Registered Landscape Architect or Architect in the office location state or ability to gain reciprocal licensing.
• Experience in 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 and institutional-client focused, high-paced firm.

About Freese and Nichols

At the heart of our culture is our LEADS values (Learn continuously, Engage as family, Act with integrity, Deliver quality, and Serve always). Each year, our employee engagement survey confirms that our leaders and our employees live our values.

We strive to be the firm of choice for clients and employees through innovative approaches, practical results, and outstanding service. For more than 130 years, we have been planning and designing the infrastructure our communities need: developing water supplies, designing roadways and bridges, preparing for natural disasters, and much more.

Besides our comprehensive benefits package (see more at Benefits That Work for You), we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico and Banner Elk, North Carolina. We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.

Join our team of 1,300+ employees as we grow from Virginia to Colorado. Learn more about working here at Working at Freese and Nichols.

Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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