Urban Designer/Campus Planner

Freese and Nichols, Inc. (FNI) is currently searching for a highly-motivated, passionate and energetic Urban Designer/Campus Planner, potentially with a landscape architect background, to grow the Urban Planning and Design Group in one of the following offices:

• Austin, TX
• San Marcos, TX
• Houston, TX
• Raleigh, NC
• Charlotte, NC

If you’re seeking an exciting opportunity to advance the practice urban design in a way that allows you to consistently provide innovative and sustainable solutions to communities and institutions, from higher education campus plans and public spaces to downtown placemaking for revitalization, working side-by-side with a team of the brightest minds in the industry and know that you’re part of a team that strives to make the world a better place, Freese and Nichols is where you should be. Our multidisciplinary group includes some of the most creative urban planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and site civil engineers, all housed under the same group to create a studio-like atmosphere of idea generation. This is backed by overall firm support from a variety of expert engineers, skilled GIS analysts, and talented environmental scientists and biologists. This position primarily focuses on managing and developing urban design projects and campus planning projects for higher education along with regional focus based on location in South/Central Texas, Western Gulf Coast (Houston to Louisiana) and the Carolinas.

Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Work in a collaborative environment as part of a multi-discipline team
• Demonstrate ability to produce well-written reports and highly visual documents
• Demonstrate ability to develop design projects from conceptual design through schematic design and construction administration
• 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.
• Prepare and facilitate public involvement and consensus-building meetings and workshops.
• Assist the group manager and team managers with related marketing and client development for planning assignments, and help support/identify strategic direction to advance the Urban Planning+Design Practice as well as other practices supporting higher education, and state and local governments.
• Represent the company at conferences, seminars, meetings; make presentations to clients, government officials, and industry representatives.
• Plan, schedule, conduct and coordinate detailed phases of planning work in several large and important projects.
• Maintain liaisons with individuals inside and outside of the company.
• Draft proposals and statements of qualification within the directives of company policy relating to marketing.
• Supervise technicians and other planners when performing project tasks, with potential to supervise a team based in Central Texas.

Qualifications

• 10+ 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.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, Sketchup and rendering/visualization programs
• 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.
• This position requires 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 ), we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico. 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.