About the role

  • Urban Planning Manager managing comprehensive and strategic planning projects in Central Texas and Western Gulf Coast. Leading a multidisciplinary team for sustainable community solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage urban planning projects including comprehensive plans, codes and ordinances, downtown plans, and small area plans
  • Serve as project manager and technical director by planning, scheduling, and coordinating detailed phases of planning work
  • Direct and facilitate public involvement, stakeholder engagement, and consensus-building meetings and workshops
  • Produce and quality-check well-written reports and highly visual planning documents
  • Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, and technical quality to meet client expectations
  • Mentor, supervise, and develop planners and technicians while fostering a collaborative, multidisciplinary team environment
  • Support resiliency, policy, transportation, parks, and related projects based on workload needs
  • Assist group and team managers with marketing, client development, and strategic planning initiatives
  • Develop and maintain relationships with key public-sector clients
  • Identify and pursue project opportunities and contribute to proposal and statement of qualifications development
  • Represent Freese and Nichols at conferences, seminars, public meetings, and client presentations
  • Travel as needed to support project commitments, including evening meetings and occasional overnight travel

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, or a related planning field
  • American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certification
  • 10+ years of professional urban planning experience
  • Demonstrated experience managing multiple, complex planning projects in a public-sector environment
  • Proven experience in cross-sector planning such as community development, economic development, or resilience
  • Strong facilitation, engagement, and consensus-building skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite
  • Working knowledge of GIS and public engagement tools
  • Established client relationships within Central or South Texas or the Western Gulf Coast region
  • Spanish language fluency, written and spoken

Benefits

  • Paid overtime for salaried employees
  • Annual bonus
  • Access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico and Banner Elk, North Carolina
  • Flexible work environment
  • Hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work
  • Alternative work schedule program providing a day off every other Friday

Job title

Urban Planning Project Manager

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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