Planner Ii -Master Planning

Olson Kundig is a Seattle and New York City-based design practice founded on the ideas that buildings can serve as a bridge between nature, culture and people, and that inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on people’s lives. The firm’s work can be found across the globe, with projects as wide-ranging as huts to high rises, homes—often for art collectors—to academic, cultural and civic projects, museums and exhibition design, places of worship, creative production, urban design, and interior design.

Currently, we are seeking an Planner II who can help contribute to the overall excellence of work coming from Olson Kundig.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serves as a subject matter expert on specialized systems.
• Liaises with project management, other architectural team members, and consultants.
• Analyzing natural and man-made factors affecting site development suitability for a wide range of project typologies.
• Collaborating with other planners, architects and landscape architects to create integrated, sustainable, and equitable solutions for complex land planning problems.
• Coordinates with the Partner and/or Principal on appropriate technical solutions, products, and project delivery.
• Provides professional master planning consultation in the planning, design, and coordination of projects.
• Prepares concept and technical presentations for project meetings and reports.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Participate in stakeholder outreach for community-based land planning assignments.
• Research and analyze data including master plan level programming and space planning studies.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrates a growth mindset and an aptitude for presenting opportunities for process improvement and technology solutions, including learning new software and systems.
• Demonstrates effective problem-solving skills, including the ability to present solutions and recommendations for non-standard situations.
• Demonstrates a strong sense of urgency and effectively prioritizes multiple activities with little guidance in a fast-paced, creative, and dynamic work environment.
• Able to organize and cartoon a conceptual master planning set.
• Professional degree in Urban Planning, Architecture or Landscape Architecture.
• Able to work at a variety of project scales from master planning to site planning.
• Can develop any aspect of the project deliverables.
• Able to express design ideas through hand-drawing.
• Exhibits a high attention to detail and takes responsibility for delivering accurate, high-quality work.
• Technical planning and design skills and ability to direct this type of work for more junior team members.
• A minimum of four years of related professional experience.
• Effectively reviews and coordinates consultant drawings.
• Communicates effectively verbally and in writing, demonstrating the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of internal and external “clients” and vendors.

Desired Additional Experience

• Experience with Deltek Project Planning.
• Experience with sustainability focused project assessments such as SITES, Living Building Challenge, LEED, and high-performance building.
• Experience with Sketchup/Rhino/Enscape or other 3D modeling and rendering software.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Experience with AutoCAD, Civil3D and GIS platforms.
• Experience with Bluebeam Revu/Bluebeam Studio.

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What can you expect from us?

• Opportunity to grow professionally with excellent projects
• A creative work environment and colleagues who are collaborative, creative, and challenging
• Check our culture page to learn about life at Olson Kundig

In addition to a dynamic and creative culture, Olson Kundig provides a generous benefits package that includes 16 days of paid time off, paid holidays, health plan, 401k match, bonuses, profit-sharing plans for qualified positions, a monthly travel subsidy for public transportation, and more.

As a firm, we are committed to pay practices that are fair, competitive, and reflect internal pay equity. At the time of posting this job, the hiring range for this position in Seattle is between $78,000 and $84,000 annually. Final salary decisions are made based upon the extent and relatedness of the candidate’s education and experience and considering internal equity and external market factors.

COVID-19 considerations: Full COVID-19 vaccination required or an approved medical or religious exemption.

All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship and must already possess long-term work authorization.