Job Description

Olsson Studio delivers a boutique creative design experience to our clients and our people, backed by the expertise and resources of our whole company.

As a Project Community/Urban Planner within our Studio team, you will apply diversified principles and practices in broad areas of assignments with minimal supervision, often managing small-to-medium sized projects. The project planner’s work requires a mastery of specialized techniques or ingenuity when selecting and evaluating solutions to unforeseen or novel problems. The project planner applies analytical solutions to a wide variety of problems and assimilates details and their significance toward various analyses. The project planner may supervise planners, technicians, and interns.

Additional Responsibilities:

Develops community master plans, comprehensive plans, and strategic plans.

Facilitates public meetings and conducts technical research.

Prepares design and contract documents and handles contract documents, and handles contract administration for planning projects.

Completes management tasks including the development of the project’s scope of work, the project’s schedule, and the completion of the project’s initial paperwork.

Assists with budget reviews and schedules progress reports.

Coordinates with clients and attends client meetings.

Assists with marketing/business development and helps write proposals.

Serves as project manager on small to medium projects.

Trains others on more complex work.