Sr Planner

Description

• Proactively engages staff and provides opportunities for professional growth.
• Coordinate CEQA compliance, including scoping technical studies from consultants.
• Leads multi-disciplinary teams to complete tasks on projects, within the scope of work, schedule, and budget, in an organized, timely and consistent way, with meeting agendas, minutes, action items and follow-up coordination.
• Fosters a commitment to external and internal client service.
• Lead entitlement strategies for major master-planned, mixed-use, and institutional projects, navigating Bay Area municipal and regional approval processes.
• Assesses and directs planning process and team workflow improvements, incorporates integrated sustainable project solutions and promotes best practices in project thinking in project deliverables.
• Archives documents appropriately showing strong project organizational and team management skills.
• Leads planning concepts, strategy, creative direction and project organization for project teams.
• Coordinates all aspects of planning project deliverables, including defining and controlling scope of work, schedules and workplans to guide clients and project teams. Effectively coordinates with outside project and consulting partners towards project goals.
• Manages planning projects, guides internal teams and consultants towards firmwide project excellence and problem solving.
• Assures HOK document QA/QC and Best Practice management standards are met.
• Uses advanced knowledge of planning concepts and controls for a range of planning project types to guide team approaches to the creation and modification of planning documents, drawings and performs advanced calculations, ensuring the incorporation of project intent.
• Develops a deep understanding of client's program requirements and regulatory standards and policies. Directs selection of appropriate key performance metrics to guide project and support client project goals and ensures their integration into project decision making and documentation.
• Guides multi-disciplinary teams and consultants towards incorporation of integrated Sustainable project solutions into projects.
• Travel may be required
• Supports business development strategies led by others.
• Assists in teaming strategy, consultant coordination and facilitates multi-discipline collaboration.
• Participates in interviews as subject matter expert.
• Leads team strategy for planning frameworks, systems diagrams and conceptual plans under guidance of Regional Lead / PIC. Provides creative direction, providing outlines and structure for project teams. Develops content for external presentation. Demonstrates advanced understanding of the relationship between project and feasibility.
• Leads efforts in developing and validating project approach, schedule, scope of work and staffing plans for team review.
• Monitors performance of project team and approach to ensure quality standards and project goals are being met.
• Provide strategic advice to clients and internal teams on entitlement pathways, regulatory requirements, and risk management.
• Leads articulate and effective project-related client, public and/or professional presentations. Guides collaborative team project meetings and consultant meetings.
• Leads intra-company agreements, contracts and deliverables to assure HOK standards for project management are met.
• Manages project teams, provides innovative project solutions, fosters collaboration and demonstrates effective communication towards successful project delivery.
• Manage and collaborate with diverse stakeholder groups, including city staff, elected officials, community organizations, developers, and institutional partners.

Requirements

• Ability to work in a team environment and effectively meet deadlines.
• Ability to support team in prioritizing obligations based on task prioritization and understanding of contractual obligations and client expectations.
• Strategic application of advanced understanding of planning benchmarks and precedents, for a range of project types, based on extensive professional experience, towards project and client needs.
• Advanced knowledge of sustainability, integrated project and LEED guidelines.
• Expertise in CEQA processes, including management of EIRs and technical studies.
• Proficiency in GIS data and mapping software preferred.
• Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing.
• Proficiency in Affinity or Adobe Creative Suite and Bluebeam Revu preferred.
• Proficiency in MS Office, including Word, Outlook and Excel required.
• Advanced knowledge of planning controls and benchmarks to inform project data and performance metrics. Intermediate understanding of external government and agency approval processes.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Familiarity with SB 330 and related California housing legislation preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of site planning strategies and ability to research, apply and incorporate those strategies into conceptual site projects, guidelines, standards and other project documents.
• Advanced knowledge of typical planning concepts, real estate development parameters and a range of building typologies towards best practices in placemaking strategies.
• Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills with the ability to guide complex teams and facilitate stakeholder consensus.
• LEED credential required within 12 months of employment
• Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in land use planning, entitlement, and CEQA compliance.
• Proficiency in Grasshopper and Enscape preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of technical planning elements and ability to understand, coordinate and effectively interpret consultant team members input in providing project team direction.
• Ability to anticipate entitlement requirements and guide teams, consultants and clients towards compliant project solutions.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and Rhino required.
• Uses advanced knowledge of planning to contribute towards the success of the team, and the project.
• Directs planning concepts based on advanced knowledge of site planning strategies. Ability to articulate impacts to overall district composition based on changes in plan components.
• Proven ability to translate master planning visions into implementable, entitlement-ready projects
• Advanced knowledge of QA/QC process.
• Demonstrates effective conflict resolution techniques with clients, consultants and project team members.
• Displays critical thinking and creativity in initiating planning approaches, manages the creation and modification of planning documents and ensures incorporation of project intent.
• Demonstrated success advancing large-scale projects in the Bay Area, such as transit-oriented developments, sports driven master plans, corporate campuses, life science campuses, healthcare facilities, universities, or other institutional developments.
• Professional planner license (AICP or equivalent).

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance